The other issue is that in Europe users frequently do business across borders... An Italian may want to see the site from a French point of view... or a global enterprise may need to see the point of view of one of their foreign subsidiaries.
We Americans tend to be pretty American-centric. Keep in mind that users from emerging markets (e.g. China) will pass us by very soon. -Milmoe ---------------------------------------- From: "Shaun Bergmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:50 AM To: pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] 'Select Country' dropdown I suppose the only possible drawback to that method is when the user is coming in using some sort of 'Anonymizer' software, and consistently showing up as some foreign IP. On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:59:06, pauric wrote: > Out of curiosity, how feasible would it be for you to hook in to the > geolocation DB api at http://www.hostip.info/ and provide the form > based on US preferred or Worldwide? > > regards - pauric > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=23593 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* > February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA > Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
