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By: El mapa de las conexiones : Wishful thinking…

El mapa de las conexiones : Wishful thinking… — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:38:08 +0000

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By: elkit

elkit — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:10:35 +0000

Townshend foresaw the future! He also wrote this great song that I like to subtitle “The Software Developer’s Sad Song”:
Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned
You’re crashing by design …

(1986, from his fine “White City” album)

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:36:42 +0000

Japan is not top in either category. I thought they might at least make the mobile phone top ten, after reading that article in the New Yorker about teenage girls writing novels on mobile phones.

By: Zubin Wadia

Zubin Wadia — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:55:29 +0000

I have no idea what the basis of judgement is, but I assume it is simply accessibility to the internet over various communication channels rather than quality or feasibility of the experience.

Some Observations:

1. The U.A.E. for example, blocks a lot of content. That really should be a parameter when you are doing a “most connected” ranking .

2. If you have international roaming from AT&T for example – it’s $0.0195 per kilobyte in the UAE… vs. $0.005 for other countries like India & Europe. So, yes I can get 3G without swapping my SIM – but I pay nosebleed rates for it.

3. Notice how all the countries with 150+ ratings are tiny? When you are dealing with significantly more surface area, it’s harder to keep up standards.