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Gamelan focuses on Java, a somewhat technical subject. However,
our audience comprises a broad spectrum of the Internet population.
Our users come from all around the world, and are primarily early
adopters. In particular, significant portions of our audience
come from high-tech companies. However, increasing numbers of
casual Internet surfers are visiting Gamelan to play with the
latest Java applets. Our audience constitutes one of the most prized market segments for
Internet advertisers, and we now run advertising for technology
leaders such as Microsoft, Sun, and others.
Gamelan has achieved an industry position as the central site
for Java developers and users on the Internet. As well as winning
numerous industry awards, Gamelan has been ranked among the top
25 most popular Internet sites by PC Magazine, based on
an analysis of Internet traffic. Gamelan has been featured in
the press countless times, including such well-known publications
as WIRED magazine, the Washington Post, PC Magazine,
Communications Week, Interactive Age, Inter@ctive
Week, and on c|net television, among many others. We have
even heard reports of Java focus group studies which indicated
that Gamelan is used by nearly 80 percent of Java developers as
their primary source of information on Java. Gamelan is endorsed
by Sun, and specifically by JavaSoft, SunSoft, and SMCC, and is
linked off of Netscape's "Directory" and "Search"
pages as a primary Internet resource. Gamelan is linked to by
numerous other major Web sites and by most, if not all, Java related
sites. As a testament to Gamelan's growing brand-name status it
is now the subject of books and CD-ROMs (for instance this!).
We couldn't be more pleased by the popularity of Gamelan; it proves
that hard work and community service on the Internet can be highly
successful and even rewarding.
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