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September 05, 2006
Globalizing web apps
Globalizing web apps: Things are changing quickly, and a single-OS, single-region approach risks lost opportunity: "China will overtake the US next year to become the world's largest broadband internet market, analysts have forecast. The number of broadband subscribers in China is growing at a staggering 79 per cent annually, and will reach 79 million in 2007... the number of broadband connections in the US, currently the world's largest market, is around 51 million." The rest of the article notes how other statisticians differ in detail, but agree in the overall argument. I think there are opportunities for native English speakers in all this -- much development for China will be done within China, and some of this development may be ported to English too -- but native English speakers, particularly those from multi-ethnic regions, will likely have an easier time reaching various other cultures than any other single group of people will. Unique opportunities ahead....
Posted by JohnDowdell at September 5, 2006 02:23 PM
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