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. TweetShareShare
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. …