Users of a computer network (e.g., the Internet) can be encouraged to
access dynamic pricing information (e.g., bid/ask pricing information for
goods/services available in commerce) on the computer network (e.g.,
collected and maintained by a dynamic pricing system) by distributing to
one or more users of the computer network (e.g., by e-mail) a modular
computer program (e.g., a Java applet) that displays (e.g., in ticker
format) dynamic pricing information collected from the computer network,
and presenting to the one or more users of the modular computer program
an interactive visual indication (e.g., a hyperlink or glyph) of a
user-attractive resource available on the computer network (e.g., a
contest, reward program, coupons, etc.). Access to the user-attractive
resource can be provided to a user upon sensing that the user selected
the interactive visual indication. The stream of dynamic pricing
information displayed to users can have a predefined taxonomy, and the
users can selectively view different levels of the taxonomy.