Some of the key technological developments driving the Internet boom originated in Europe; the HTML-standard and the Linux operating system to name a couple. But Europe has lagged behind the U.S. in putting the Net to use, as the success of Yahoo, Google and Amazon among others demonstrates. Especially in the intellectual journals, but in mainstream media as well, Europeans haven't learned to make more content available to readers for free as a way to drive traffic. Once you have traffic, there are a multitude of ways to make the venture profitable. An interesting article from a European e-zine that urges the Euros to get their act together. (via aldaily.com)
Posted by dan at July 10, 2004 10:41 PM