Adventures in web globalization, since 2002
I contributed an op-ed piece to the Boston Globe. They published it yesterday, and I’d love to hear what you think. Here’s an excerpt… Former advertising executive Charlotte Beers, now undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, is …
Web services, should it become a global success story, will require modifications along the way. The Web Services Internationalization Task Force will be instrumental to its success. Here’s an interesting read: Web Services Internationalization Usage Scenarios About the task force: …
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The French children’s clothing store Jacadi is a case study in the craziness that is globalization. Here is a French store expanding into the U.S. market because its fashions are more popular here than at home. Furthermore, it is hiring …
From .ar (Argentina) to .za (South Africa), there are more than 100 country code top level domain names (ccTLDs) out there just ready for the taking. And many people have taken them, well ahead of many multinationals. So what happens …
It was Air Jordan that helped the NBA go global. Now it seems the NBA is taking a more localized approach to globalization, one player and one country at at time. Consider Yao Ming, the 7-foot-6 center from China, who …
The EU took a big step toward becoming the world’s largest trading market, with 446 million people vs. NAFTA’s 416 million. It put 10 additional countries on the track to EU membership: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, …
If you didn’t grow up speaking English or French in Canada, you most likely spoke Chinese, according to new census data released on Tuesday. Statistics Canada reported the number of people listing Chinese as their mother tongue grew by almost …
French is such a rich language that it now has, by state decree, two words for “@” — the “at” sign that has become a worldwide symbol for the Internet — but only one official way to pronounce it. A …
McDonald’s is about as American as apple pie, and that’s not such a good thing in parts of the world where America not in vogue. Consider the following from the Toronto Star: Around the world, McDonald’s restaurants have been burning. …
Language never stands still, particularly in NYC: “When you think that the United States is the fifth largest Spanish-speaking nation in the world and New York has more Spanish speakers than 13 Latin American capitals, you begin to appreciate the …
A great article in the International Herald Tribune about Vietnam’s approach to globalization: The country’s 80 million people want their piece of global prosperity and the benefits that come from the free movement of capital, goods and people. They just …