When will Web 2.0 sites think globally, and not in zip codes?

March 10, 2006

Add Skobee to my list of sites I’d love-to-use-if-they-thought-about-non-Americans.

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  1. Rachel:

    agree with you~

    why can’t they make this item optional?

    — yoren, March 10, 2006

  2. Another nod in agreement here! I’m from Malaysia. That’s as far away from “Web 2.0 America” as you can get :)
    They should collect more content from the ‘edge’, like edgeio.com - I love their geographic slidebar search widget.

    — Zaim Bakar, March 10, 2006

  3. Totally agree…

    I live in Canada, at just 20 MINUTES from the US border, and I have the same problem than all of you…

    :’(

    — Josue, March 10, 2006

  4. Its nearly as bad here in the UK…… we might get these services 18 months later if we’re lucky!

    — Ben Bishop, March 11, 2006

  5. I suppose if it’s for local community or dating sites, it’s quite necessary. But for Web 2.0 services, it does make itself look very exclusive.

    Oh, wait, Facebook is also a kind of community site, but it successfully expanded globally.

    — Richard.H, March 11, 2006

  6. Who would’ve thought 90210 would come in handy all those years later? ;)

    — Rachel, March 11, 2006

  7. BTW Skobee have just updated and you no longer need a bogus ZIP, they can return to holding clothes together!

    — Tim Bulkeley, March 16, 2006

  8. Thanks Tim - I’ll sign up now :D

    — Rachel, March 16, 2006

  9. hear hear. I’ve been bitching about this recently… and time sensitive content is also annoying… what do you have to do to get a blog stats package that will show you your stats in Australian time? (Even with BlogBeat, which I was using recently, I could get Auckland time but not Sydney… bizarre).

    — leisa, March 17, 2006