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Month: June 2007

The Best Global Web Sites (and why)

June 19, 2007 by John Yunker

What separates good global Web sites from great global Web sites? Is it just the number of languages a Web site supports? Certainly languages are essential. Although every Web site …

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Categories Apple, Global By Design, Google, Web Globalization, Wikipedia

A Whole New Way of Looking at the World (Wide Web)

June 17, 2007 by John Yunker

When you work in this industry for awhile, you get pretty familiar with country codes such as .de for Germany or .cn for China. But there are simply too many …

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Categories Brazil, China, Domain names, India, Languages, Web Globalization

US Stays “Lost in Translation”

June 8, 2007 by John Yunker

Guest Article: By Ralph Strozza InterPro Translation Solutions I recall as if it were yesterday something that happened on a business trip to Germany about 10 years ago. I was …

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Categories Guest Articles, Languages

Pick a Country, Any Country

June 7, 2007 by John Yunker

Translation agency American Translation Partners has developed a nifty language locator that allows you to select a country and find out which language or languages are spoken there along with …

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Categories Languages, Vendors

The Joyo of Amazon

June 7, 2007 by John Yunker

Amazon has had a presence in China since its 2004 acquisition of Joyo.com. And it appears things are going quite nicely. Says Jeff Bezos in a recent Wall Street Journal …

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Categories Business globalization, China, Web Globalization

Multilingual Email: A Success Story

June 6, 2007 by John Yunker

MarketingSherpa has posted a must-read case study on one company’s adventures in developing a multilingual email campaign to promote an executive conference. In a nutshell, the campaign was a big …

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Categories Translation

Google Gets Animated in Korea

June 1, 2007 by John Yunker

In case you thought that Google’s austere home page design was sacrosanct, think again. In an effort to win over the locals in Korea, Google has just launched a new …

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Categories Business globalization, China, Culture, Google, Web Globalization

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