Readers account for more than 80 million page views per month on the Impress sites. The Vignette platform will enable Impress to manage all personalized content in one place and then publish it to multiple Web sites and channels. High off of Internet hype, wired companies both East and West are suddenly so surprised that they can't make a fast buck in Asia from e-commerce.
More disappointments await - at least in the short term.
That's going to hurt. In mainland China, the response was much the same, and not that many people have much to spend there anyway. Using the ENUM standard, pilot projects are being launched by partnering companies. It is already available in Chinese and English, and a Russian-language version is being licensed to Advanced Project Technologies of St. Petersburg. With the growth of wireless PDA Internet access, this company could find itself on many wireless devices as well.