[Sigia-l] The New Nielsen?

[gMeta]

Gavid,

You miss the point - entirely.

And in fact in trying to contradict me, you
actually bolstered my case with some very good examples - thanks.

Achieving the goal gives the pleasure not the associated visual [etc]
gimmicks.

You are also wrong [sadly] about broadband in Europe.

Vast swathes of Europe have *no other viabale option* than
pay-per-minute-for-a-local call dialup internet access at 28.8k
The telecoms monopolies here such as BT, DeutscheTelekom
and FranceTelecom are the viable ONLY options for access.

And what's more most folks are on Windows 98 and maybe IE 5.0

Stop being so Amero-centric...we need to be more global in our thinking.

What is the Internet like for the 1/6 of the planet Earth's population known
as China...do they have Flash 6.0 Player installed in IE6.x?
Or Afica...Or India?...


thx.
g.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Heller" <hippiefunk at hotmail.com>
To: <sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 5:07 PM
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] The New Nielsen?


> Gorgon,
>
> Since when for something to pleasurable that it requires high-bandwidth?
> Yes I can add more to my site, but Yahoo is an incredibly engaging
> experience, as is Google and these are very low bandwidth sites.
>
> My bank site where I do online checking is very low bandwidth and very
> engaging to me. I think you are taking it a bit too far.
>
> I also think that you are overstating the digital divide. Broadband is
> arriving in Europe and the far east and newer methods of broadband are
> going to make the arduous last mile the easiest part of the broadband
> problem. That is through wireless. Just like Satellite skipped cable in
> much of Europe.
>
> Things take time to come around ... But if you look at European web
> sites on the whole, they are much more likely to use engaging
> technologies like Flash than US companies are b/c they seem to
> understand the "pleasure principle" a lot more.
>
> -- dave
>
> David Heller
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