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Month: March 2008

What took you so long? Craigslist begins translating its site

March 28, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreWhat took you so long? Craigslist begins translating its site

Categories Web Globalization

.CN: From 2 million to 10 million in 12 months

March 26, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read more.CN: From 2 million to 10 million in 12 months

Categories Business globalization, China, Domain names

The creative side of global navigation

March 21, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreThe creative side of global navigation

Categories Global navigation, Web Globalization

Isn’t Andorra in Africa?

March 20, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreIsn’t Andorra in Africa?

Categories Domain names

Japan joins the million domain club

March 11, 2008 by John Yunker

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 …

Read moreJapan joins the million domain club

Categories Domain names

More on the best global Web sites

March 5, 2008 by John Yunker

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

Categories Web Globalization

Facebook and MySpace going multilingual: But XING is well ahead

March 3, 2008 by John Yunker

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. …

Read moreFacebook and MySpace going multilingual: But XING is well ahead

Categories Languages, Translation, Vendors, Web Globalization

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