A strange map
Our latest and greatest map — Country Codes of the World — was published about two weeks ago. Since then, the response has been pretty amazing. I had a feeling that anyone involved in Web globalization would get a kick …
Month: October 2007
58% of Europeans online will buy online this year
Forrester Research has released new research that says that European online spending has grown more than 50% over the past year and that Europeans will spend more than US$70 billion during the upcoming Christmas season. Here are the top five …
iGoogle: Now in 42 Languages
The customized Google home page known as iGoogle has been localized into a bunch of additional languages, bringing the grand total to 42. Here are the most recently added languages: – Arabic – Bulgarian – Catalian – Croatian – Icelandic …
Vint Cerf on the mobile internet
Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, speaking on the future of the Internet: When Google News for mobile devices became available in French, the biggest spike in usage outside France was in C?te d’Ivoire. In the developing world especially, …
Understanding the global search market
The fine folks at Multlingual Search have published a report on the state of the search engine markets in more than a dozen countries. This report is a quick read and, best of all, it’s free. You can download it …
Here comes IDNs
I recently came across an article I wrote way back in late 2001 about the need for internationalized domain names (IDNs). You can download the article here. Back then, I had no idea I would be sitting here in 2007 …
Register.Me
As I wrote awhile back, Montenegro has gotten approval for its own top-level country code domain (ccTLD). The code is .me and should be available for registration early in 2008. Here is the registry. And here are a few government …
Jupiter jumps in to Web globalization research
One way to measure the size of an industry is by the number of analysts covering it. When I got started covering Web globalization back in 2000, to my knowledge I was the only one. IDC had issued a few …
Flatlash: Rethinking Globalization
A flat world cuts both ways. A flat world is a great thing when you can get a brand new high-def TV for less than $700 because it was made in China. But it’s not such a great thing when …
Are You Master of Your Domains?
Earlier this year I developed the Map of the World Wide Web, shown here: This map was designed to fit on a cubicle wall and include the major country code top level domains (ccTLDs) that a global Webmaster may encounter. …