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Month: January 2009

The rise of “international” English — otherwise known as American English

January 25, 2009 by John Yunker

I was on the Boingo Web site recently and I encountered a language picker with “English Intl.” listed as an option, as shown here: This was not the first Web site I’ve encountered to offer an international English option — …

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Categories Languages, Web Globalization

The dawn of a new era

January 20, 2009 by John Yunker

I was walking to the bus this evening in Redmond and I was waiting at a traffic light. A young man on a bicycle pulled up next to me. He was singing to himself. There was just the two of …

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Categories Web Globalization

.EU: Three years and three million registrations

June 24, 2016January 13, 2009 by John Yunker

It’s been nearly three years since .EU went live. Stephane reports that the domain reached 3 million registrations today. Not too bad, considering that .US is still well under two million. So who’s using this domain? Amazon is using it …

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Categories Country Codes, Domain names

Global user experience is much more than a Web site

January 11, 2009 by John Yunker

I bought a LaCie hard drive recently, and I noticed an interesting gap between the global usability of the LaCie Web site and the installation software that shipped with the drive. I’m sure this is an issue not unique to …

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Categories Business globalization, Web Globalization

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2009 by John Yunker
Categories Translation, Web Globalization

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