http://global-culture.org/deja-vu/ Sustainable, Memorable, Livable Mon, 03 Jan 2011 22:40:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://global-culture.org/deja-vu/comment-page-1/#comment-119342 a billion web users | Global Culture Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:40:05 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2006/12/12/deja-vu/#comment-119342 [...] two years ago I wrote the post déjà vu, forecasting that the total penetration of Chinese users would reach 35%, using a simple comparison [...] [...] two years ago I wrote the post déjà vu, forecasting that the total penetration of Chinese users would reach 35%, using a simple comparison [...]

]]> http://global-culture.org/deja-vu/comment-page-1/#comment-17796 Global Culture » a computer in every chinese home Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:37:51 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2006/12/12/deja-vu/#comment-17796 [...] Back in December in my post d√©j√† vu I speculated that half of the Chinese population would connect to the web, representing 35% of all users. With cheap hardware and creative financing deals the target seems a lot closer. [...] [...] Back in December in my post d√©j√† vu I speculated that half of the Chinese population would connect to the web, representing 35% of all users. With cheap hardware and creative financing deals the target seems a lot closer. [...]

]]> http://global-culture.org/deja-vu/comment-page-1/#comment-5165 Global Culture » a billion spaces Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:30:46 +0000 http://global-culture.org/blog/2006/12/12/deja-vu/#comment-5165 [...] In my previous post, d√©j√† vu, I pointed out the heavy influence that a drastic change in the demographics of web users will have on the web as we know it today. The generation of geeks that created their first pages in the 90’s likely grew to become professionals of the medium and went on to produce some of the great sites out there today, but it is only over the last few months that it has become socially cool to have your own page and since not everyone is equipped to do it as those geeks used to, sites like MySpace are attracting millions of cool teenagers by simplifying the process. Of course we’ve seen a whole generation of users adopt this habit throughout the “geocities” phase, but we have to admit it was still just an elite of savvy internet users that was able to create their own page. [...] [...] In my previous post, d√©j√† vu, I pointed out the heavy influence that a drastic change in the demographics of web users will have on the web as we know it today. The generation of geeks that created their first pages in the 90’s likely grew to become professionals of the medium and went on to produce some of the great sites out there today, but it is only over the last few months that it has become socially cool to have your own page and since not everyone is equipped to do it as those geeks used to, sites like MySpace are attracting millions of cool teenagers by simplifying the process. Of course we’ve seen a whole generation of users adopt this habit throughout the “geocities” phase, but we have to admit it was still just an elite of savvy internet users that was able to create their own page. [...]

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