probably a couple of reasons. i asked the twitter brain and got some replies:
"It may relate to internet censorship in Thailand, I heard from many ppl those change to FF after they can't access many sites via IE." http://twitter.com/jiew/statuses/2248648604 "foxyproxy and tor" http://twitter.com/sugree/statuses/2248689363 if that is true that would be the first positive thing i hear about censorship :) On Jun 20, 10:23 am, 31o5 OHIRA <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure if it's related, but I saw a news about internet trend in > Thailand. The most popular website is google.com > now.http://www.newsclip.be/news/2009619_024275.html(sorry it's in Japanese) > > I remember few years (or months?) back it used to be pantip.com, sanook, msn > etc. wasn't it? Most of the websites were just for IE when I first came to > Thailand which is 5++ years back, not much easy CMSs to generate clean code, > not much blogs, I used to felt Thai people like chatting more than blogging, > but now I see many people blogging. > > Maybe I feel this because I didn't know much Thai techies when I first came > here, but somehow I've been feeling something has been happening here in > Thailand + SE Asia... excited, I'm kind of lucky to live here during this > period :) > > satoko > > > > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Gen Kanai <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi BarCampers, > > > I'm wondering if you can help me. > > > Mozilla is seeing a significant growth in Firefox users in Thailand in > > the past 3 months. Around 17% growth, which is one of the highest > > rates. > > > I know this is partly due to the hard work of the Thai Firefox > > localizing team but do you know if there is another reason why Firefox > > is particularly popular in Thailand right now? We are trying to find > > out if there are any Internet trends in Thailand that we do not know > > about. > > > My colleague Ken Kovash is cc'd to this email so if you have any > > thoughts, please reply to the group and cc Ken. > > > Thank you in advance, > > > Gen > >http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/category/thailand/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Barcamp Thailand" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/barcamp-thailand?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
