If you haven’t listened to this podcast from June 2006 talking about the next 5 billion users, with a particular focus on India and China, you should check it out. Some really interesting and important tidbits on both cultural issues and online participation in the so-called developing world. For example: It is expected that the number of Chinese Internet users will surpass the number of people online in the U.S. this year…and that soon Chinese will replace English as the most common language on the Internet worldwide.