Pambazuka News

Global: Web 2.0 Services 'shutting out developing countries'

2009-06-05, Issue 436

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/internet/56754


In a particularly infuriating Article, the NewYorkTimes sites developing countries as the toughest places to monetize web traffic for web services like YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. The article makes the argument that countries in South America, parts of Asia and Africa, are particularly hard to monetize due to the increased costs of serving rich media (like video and flash advertisements) to low bandwidth regions of the world.