Internet Cafe Guide - news jan 98
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Sidebar navigatinmap No dying business
Cybercafes still alive and kicking
It's not only the interest in this site that is growing daily, so are the number of listed cafés.
Recently we rounded 1.300 cafés listed, and the number of countries are 79.

Even though the culture is predicted to die, some media has had the internet cafés on its "out" list for a year now, there are few signs to confirm this prediction.

Instead the list of cafés gets longer every day - and, correct me if I'm wrong, the number of users are growing too. Some believe more home computers with modems make the cybercafes unnecessary, but I believe the opposite will happen.

More surfers (and more addicts) means more business for the internet cafes.

The cyber-user probably need a place to share the interest, a cybercafe is great for this.

And even surfers need to leave home from time to time - desktop outnumber laptops and a travelling surfer can get his or her need for net access covered at a net cafe.

Nice words
Since we achieved the first "cool site"/"hot site" rewards only a few days after the final release in feb. -97 (see prizes) we have been promoting the site to ensure cybercafe users gets to know about this resource.

Now it seems the snowball is rolling, the prizes have been fewer the last months, but the press have discovered the need to find out how to get connected when your home- or office computer is out of reach.

So over the last two months The Sunday Times, Newbytes (news service on the net), Yahoo! Daily Internet Life, CNN Custom News and earlier USA Today and various other newspapers have written about the guide.

Hopefully this will help make the guide even better than it is today - by adding new visitors from new areas, contributing with new cafés and updates.

New cafés in Asia
A lot of the new cafés listed the past month is cafés in Asia. In India the number of cafés listed are the double of what it was in december and are now 11.

80 cafés outside Japan, 87 in Japan. Thailand is listed with 15 cybercafes, and the small island state of Fiji are also listed with one internet cafe.

STILL NEW:
Mail service

One of the trickier things to do at cybercafes, and other places where you are a guest-user of a computer, is checking you POP-email account.

There is always different problems in connection with this - some cafés are not very happy to let you tamper with their email clients, some charge extra for setting up a mail-client with your account information.

Internet Café Guide now offers a solution to all these problems - read the story in last months issue of ICG-news.

So far nearly half our visitors have checked out our mail service - that is much more than we hoped for - and the people at MailStart are making the service better every day.

Price for visitor #50,000
Since the humble start in february -97 42,250 surfers has been counted at the front page of the web-site http://www.netcafeguide.com. Surfer # 50.000 is scheduled to arrive in the end of february, but if the visitors keeps comming in larger numbers every week, and new promotion succede, it may come earlier.

A prize will be given to the person who gets the 50,000 digit on the counter of our main navigation page index.htm

What the prize will be, we haven't decided yet - but it will be a small gift to one of our visitors. Rules etc. will be announced at the navigation page when the counter gets closer.