[spam] Fw: [Sigia-l] The New Nielsen?

[m o r r y]

----- Original Message -----
From: "m o r r y" <morry at webproducers.org>
To: "gMeta" <gordon at gmeta.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] The New Nielsen?


> You are exactly right let's stop being Ameri-centric. Or as our Canadian
and
> Mexican friends might rephrase...stop being USA-centric.  If we want to
> consider the actual facts of broadband usage we need to become
> Korean-centric because according to a recent study reported in
>
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_73137
> 1,00.html#table
>   Korea leads the word in broadband penetration among 11 coungries.
>
> And while the USA is 2nd it trails Korea by a significant margin and Hong
> Kong and Singapoer area close 3rd and 4th respectively.
>
> Interestingly enough a European country, Spain, beat out the US in terms
of
> the % of popoulation using audio and video (typically thought of as
> broadband media).  "Spain had the highest audio/video usage in Europe
(33.8
> percent), compared to 29.5 percent of U.S. Internet users and 23.8 percent
> of U.K. Internet users"
>
> In another article it was pointed out that, "According to a study by the
> European Commission, cable modems and ADSL will rapidly become the leading
> technologies used to access the Internet at high speeds in Europe, but
there
> will be significant differences in the pace of broadband adoption among
> European countries."
>
> This study also pointed out that Sweeden and Dennmark have broadband
> penetration rates of over 13% which puts those two European countries
ahead
> of the USA.
>
> At the end of the day nobody is arguing that there isn't a digital divide
> but before we go pointing fingers and calling people ethnocentric why
don't
> we all relax and look at the data. Perhaps it's not a matter of being
> ethnocentric but techno centric, and that my dear friends, can happen in
any
> country in the world.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Morry
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > 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.
> > -----------------------------------------------
> > Gordon Montgomery BA, MSc
> > Founder, www.gMeta.com
> > +44 (0) 777 328 81 98
> > +44 (0) 28 66 38 75 73
> >
> >
> > ----- 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
> > > Sr. UI Designer
> > > Documentum: The Leader in Enterprise Content Management
> > > http://www.documentum.com/
> > >
> > > T: 925-600-5636
> > > E: david.heller at documentum.com
> > > AIM: bolinhanyc // Yahoo: dave_ux // MSN: hippiefunk at hotmail.com
> > >
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