From fork-admin@xent.com Thu Aug 29 11:04:14 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 394F244155 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 06:03:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:03:53 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7T81lZ04029 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 09:01:48 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C1972940AD; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22429294099 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:58:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Intellistation ([66.31.2.27]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020829080009.BFJC1186.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@Intellistation> for ; Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:00:09 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Eirikur Hallgrimsson Organization: Electric Brain To: FoRK Subject: Internet saturation (but not in Iceland) User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208290358.03815.eh@mad.scientist.com> Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 03:58:03 -0400 X-Pyzor: Reported 0 times. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=7.0 tests=FUDGE_MULTIHOP_RELAY,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,NOSPAM_INC, RCVD_IN_MULTIHOP_DSBL,RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,TO_LOCALPART_EQ_REAL,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_KMAIL version=2.40-cvs X-Spam-Level: Gary's news service at teledyn.com has an article on Internet Saturation. Let me ask you....If you were on a rock in the middle of the Atlantic, mostly in the dark for half the year, wouldn't *you* like a bit of internet distraction? They've already done the obvious and fiber-ringed the island. Eirikur -------- Latest guestimate stats from Ireland's NUA show a flattening Internet population growth. It seems there's two kinds of people, those who will go online with the status quo, and those who won't: Canada levels out at 53%, the USA at 59% (since 2000!), Denmark flatlines at 60%, Norway at 54%, Sweden at 64%, and the UK at 55% ... only Iceland continues unfettered beyond 60%. Could this be evidence of a usability barrier? If so, it's a clear signal that there's as much fortune to be gained from a substantially new Internet interface than all that has been gained so far. Latest guestimate stats from Ireland's NUA show a flattening Internet population growth. It seems there's two kinds of people, those who will go online with the status quo, and those who won't: Canada levels out at 53%, the USA at 59% (since 2000!), Denmark flatlines at 60%, Norway at 54%, Sweden at 64%, and the UK at 55% ... only Iceland continues unfettered beyond 60%. Could this be evidence of a usability barrier? If so, it's a clear signal that there's as much fortune to be gained from a substantially new Internet interface than all that has been gained so far. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/