Some time in 2005 the internet exceded one billion people online. Jakob Nielson discussed this in his Alert Box blog. If you read the article, the majority of internet users are not from the US, but from Asia, followed by European users. The USA is falling further and further behind in getting hooked into the networks. You can view the slides of a talk on Global Technology/Internet Trends from Morgan Stanley.

Why do I care? I want to retire on revenue from the internet and all I need is support from 0.000025% of these people checking out my websites. My website stats are at about 25,000 page views a day, lately. I need that to go up an order of magnitude or so in order to retire. Any ideas? Anyone?