Craig Newmark announced that Craigslist has begun adding support for additional languages. There are five languages so far: Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), and French (Canada or France or both; he doesn’t specify). In 2004, Craigslist began offering sites for…
China is on pace to surpass Germany as the world’s most popular country code top-level domain (ccTLD) — in about two or three months. Germany currently leads with roughly 11.5 million .de registrations, but China recently surpassed the 10 million…
Just because the splash global gateway is becoming ubiquitous, doesn’t mean that it has to be boring. For those who are unfamiliar with the term, the splash global gateway is a landing page that allows visitors to self-select their language…
The Onion has an entertaining video clip that highlights the never-ending challenge of keeping track of all those countries in the world. In this case, the video pokes fun at the US State Department sending funds to Andorra because it…
Japan recently surpassed one million country code (.jp) registrations. In doing so, it joins the following countries who also have more than a million country code registrations: Argentina (.ar) Australia (.au) Brazil (.br) China (.cn) France (.fr) Germany (.de) Italy…
Just a quick note to say that I wrote a guest article for Content Wrangler on the 2008 Report Card. You can check it out here.
Techcrunch reports that Facebook is a day away from launching a German-language interface, translated in part by 2,000 volunteers. Spanish was launched a few weeks ago. And French is also nearly here. MySpace is also busy building localized Web sites.…