The long goodbye
Lately I’ve been trying to reduce some of the noise in my inbox by unsubscribing from a number of email newsletter lists. It hasn’t been easy. For example, I unsubscribed from the IOGEAR list and they tell me (as shown …
Month: December 2008
United Airlines doesn’t speak Arabic
I wanted to highlight a great catch made by commenter Ben to my earlier post on United’s in-flight navigation system, shown here: If you look closely at the lower right corner of the screen, the Arabic link is not correctly …
March of the Magellanic Penguins
This has nothing to do with Web globalization, but it is something that I hope you’ll enjoy. It is a short story called The Tourist Trail. As you may remember, I visited Argentina about two years ago. The trip was …
Web Globalization Certificate Program at St. Louis University
Professor Nitish Singh, author of The Culturally Customized Web Site, has just launched a certificate program in Web globalization management through St. Louis University. You can learn more at www.globalizationexecutive.com.
IDNs get on the fast track
So with the “father of Internet” and chief Internet evangelist at Google, Vinton Cerf, chairing the latest IDNA working group and ICANN issuing a fast track PDF document, it appears that we’re really truly absolutely going to see IDNs come …
The global gateway at 35,000 feet
I flew to Japan recently and discovered that a new entertainment system had been installed on my flight. But what made the system worth mentioning here was what I saw when the system activated… A global gateway, shown here: Global …