Newsweek Localization: Sometimes The Truth Hurts
Thanks to fellow Mizzou J-school graduate Matt Hilburn for pointing this out. If you visit the home page of Newsweek.com, you’ll see the front pages of this week’s issue from …
Month: September 2006
The Rise of the Arab Internet
According to Madar Research, there were more than 26 million Arabic-speaking Internet users at the end of 2005, an increase of 50% over 2004. Although overall Internet penetration in the …
Forrester: More Europeans Shopping Online
Forrester Research, by way of Internet Retailer says that the percentage of Europeans shopping online has increased from 42% in 2003 to 56% in 2005. The UK has the highest …
Report: eBay Exiting China
According to Shanghai Daily by way of another news outlet, “Hong Kong-listed Tom.com is going to announce its takeover of eBay’s China division and its PayPal service.” It was less …
Tridion and Ion Global Partner
Tridion is a Web CMS software company that has carved out a lucrative — and growing — niche of supporting global/local content management. That is, the software allows local offices …
Alibris Gearing Up to Expand Globally
As books continue to become harder and harder to find on Amazon’s home page, It’s nice to see a Web site like Alibris, which serves up only books, CDs, and …
China and Japan: So Close But Yet So Far
The Pew Global Attitudes Project recently conducted a survey of citizens of Japan, China, Pakistan, and India. Conclusion: These people don’t like each other all that much. Between contested territories, …
Transware Ambassador
Yesterday Transware announced its latest version of its globalization CMS software application: Ambassador 6.8. According to the release, the software “allows customers of Transware’s translation services to automate the ordering, …
Baidu vs. Google: Round Two
Google vs. Baidu is the heavyweight battle of the Chinese Internet market. And a lot of media coverage is being devoted to analyzing this fight. Based on what’s out there …
Just How Literal Do You Want That Translation?
Guest Article: By Dr. Mark Ritter McElroy Translation Company From time to time translation agencies receive requests for a “literal”translation. This seemingly inoffensive adjective is much like the term “obscene.” …
Barnes & Noble Going Global? Not So Fast.
Barnes & Noble operates 850 book stores across the United States (including B Dalton), selling more than 450 million books a year. But the company has not strayed outside the …
Beyoncé Beyond Borders
Global superstars, like global companies, are realizing that it’s not enough to launch an English-only Web site. If you want to truly speak to the world you need a multilingual …
The World According to Wikipedia
Note: This post is excerpted from the September issue of the Global By Design newsletter. Earlier this year, we published the third edition of The Web Globalization Report Card, our …
World Wide School District
When I first saw this Web site I couldn’t believe it — a school district Web site that supports 25 languages — that’s right, 25 — including Russian, Somalian, Chinese, …