From the blurb for a Web 2.0 event in San Francisco last year:
"Why Poland? They "get" Web 2.0. There are far more Polish articles per capita on Wikipedia than any other language. Poles are Skype's largest and most avid user base. Inventive sites abound for media sharing, social networking, and news aggregation. All this springs from a well-educated, technically savvy society with passion for innovative expression and group contribution. For years Intel, Motorola, Samsung, IBM, Lucent, Nokia and Siemens have designed their core global products in Poland. Now, with Web 2.0, home-grown companies are also raising eyebrows."
If you needed any further evidence on how much Japanese people use their phones for e-mail (not texting), then the survey from September 2006 from Nikkei Business (subscription required) should convince. Despite number portability being introduced, only 18.2% of the 1011 respondents are considering switching providers, and the main reason (45%) given is that switching will change their e-mail address. The second most popular reason (just over 40%) is that the friends and family are with the same provider, and a close third is that they are satisfied with their current provider's service. Of those that are considering switching, KDDI (au) is the provider that most (61.1%) are thinking of switching to.
54.3% of 820 Japanese respondents to a September 2006 Nikkei Business survey (subscription required) say they read blogs. 68.8% read individual diary style blogs, just under 60% read news/business blogs, just under 20% travel blogs, 15% or so read restaurant or cooking blogs (I have commented before that this is a particularly popular blog topic in Japan), 10 % read health/diet blogs and just under 10% read blogs on internet shopping. 75% do not use social networking sites, 17.8% do and 6.7% are registered on one but never use it.
Research from mInfo, China's leading mobile search provider, on what Chinese search for. It does not differ greatly from other countries, except perhaps that searching for jokes and riddles is more popular in China than I have seen elsewhere.