As companies add more and more localized Web sites to their portfolio, they are increasingly resorting to using pull-down menus for navigation. Yet as the FedEx gateway (below) illustrates, pull-down menus are no panacea; they may in fact cause more…
Here is a very nice article by Evelyn Olsen on the New Zealand translation industry. Her company is NZTC, and for those who manage competitive companies, I recommend taking a look at their Web site (excerpt below). They present bios…
The Localization Industry Standards Assocation (LISA) offers a free localization primer available for download. The guide is available in 9 languages, including Arabic. Over 52 pages, the guide covers the following topics: Doing Business in a Global World Localization Tools…
The USC Online Journalism Review has an excellent article about the state of Internet penetration in Africa. Needless to say, this region has largely missed out on the Internet revolution, although penetration and usage is growing exponentionally. Here is where…
Global Web site navigation is a hot topic these days, and it seems every site has a slightly different way of solving that eternal problem of getting people to their localized sites as quickly and effortlessly as possible. Here are…
New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has neatly divided globalization into three software-like stages, as follows: The first era, from the late 1800’s to World War I, was driven by falling transportation costs, thanks to the steamship and the railroad.…
Google continues its global growth campaign by launching News Alerts in four additional languages: French – www.google.fr/newsalerts German – www.google.de/newsalerts Italian – www.google.it/newsalerts Spanish – www.google.es/newsalerts Google also has localized its popular search toolbar into 35 languages — from Arabic…