Map of the World Wide Web: Get ’em while they last
I’ve got about a hundred copies of this map remaining and I’m offering them for $3 each for orders of 25 or $2 each for orders of 50 (plus postage). The map normally sells for $12 each, so this is…
Month July 2008
China now leads in Internet users (and country codes)
The NY Times reports that China has surpassed the US in terms of Internet users. This comes via China’s state-controlled Internet Network Information Center. Here are the key numbers: United States 220 million Internet users 70% penetration China 253 million…
Has Google hit a language ceiling?
Google announced that they now have 30 products available in 30 languages. And many of these products, such as Gmail and Adwords, now support 40 languages. Here is a graph they published of the rate of growth of their language…
Will Facebook become the world’s largest translation platform?
Techcrunch reports from Facebook’s developer conference today in which company announced that it would open its “crowdsourcing” translation platform to its legion of application developers. Here’s the press release excerpt: As a result of the worldwide success of Facebook’s translation…
DomainUnavailable.me
GoDaddy, the US registrar with rights to the much-hyped .me ccTLD, opened registration to the general public today and it looks like things have not gone all that smoothly. TechCrunch reports that people received credit charges for domains they in…
The iPhone App localization opportunity
So after a slow start upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 OS on Friday, I’ve since had a chance to review a number of the apps and have been very impressed so far (though a few did cause the iPhone to…
Living in iPhone upgrade limbo
Apple seems to have made a mess of its new iPhone rollout. I have the old iPhone and tried to upgrade this morning. Apparently I’m one of many thousands of people (or more) who have received nothing but error messages.…
Web globalization trends: A free Webinar
I will be presenting a Webinar sponsored by Lionbridge this Wednesday and I hope you can join us. Here are the details: Web Globalization Trends to Watch Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT To…
Google perpetuates the American .com myth
Google features a 4th of July logo at Google.com today. This is not all that unusual; Google has been doing this for several years now. But there is an inherent flaw in hosting an American visual at Google.com: The .com…