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Month: May 2009

The Twitter Domain Rush: Don’t Get “Twit-jacked”

May 27, 2009 by John Yunker

My previous post on Twitter got me thinking about what other companies had registered language-specific domains for their Twitter accounts. Turns out, most companies haven’t even registered Twitter accounts for their primary brands. Like who? Apple, for one. Here we …

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Categories Apple, Domain names, Microsoft, Twitter

Update on the World’s Number One Starbucks Fan

May 24, 2009 by John Yunker

In 2005, I interviewed a man named Winter, who was on a quest to visit ever Starbucks location on this planet. Four years later, the quest continues. Unfortunately, as documented by the Wall Street Journal, Starbucks is now closing stores …

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Categories Web Globalization

Twitter and Web Globalization

May 20, 2009 by John Yunker

ICANN recently launched its own Twitter feed. And since ICANN is a global organization, it launched more than one language feed — one in English and one in Spanish. http://twitter.com/icann_en http://twitter.com/icann_es This is not the most scalable solution. And I’m …

Read moreTwitter and Web Globalization

Categories Domain names, Twitter, Web Globalization

Why Pay for Translation if You Can Get it for Free?

May 17, 2009 by John Yunker

It was nice to wake up this morning and see this article in the New York Times about the emergence of machine translation and volunteer translation (aka crowdsourcing). These are two very important developments that every companies needs to be …

Read moreWhy Pay for Translation if You Can Get it for Free?

Categories Crowdsourcing, Languages, Machine Translation, Translation, Web Globalization

Want to buy the number 8?

May 14, 2009 by John Yunker

Someone is promoting the sale of a Chinese domain name, shown here. Technically, this domain is represented over the Internet as http://www.xn--45q.ws, which is the ASCII equivalent of the Chinese character — the DNS is still ASCII-only. In China, the …

Read moreWant to buy the number 8?

Categories China, Country Codes, Domain names

The Rise and Fall of Web Globalization

May 13, 2009 by John Yunker

According to my search on “web globalization” in Google Timeline: I’m not sure I agree with this graph, but those were some heady days back in 2000. From my humble perch, I’d say web globalization is alive and well. Perhaps …

Read moreThe Rise and Fall of Web Globalization

Categories Google, Translation, Web Globalization

How many Fortune 500 companies blog?

May 11, 2009 by John Yunker

Curious to know how many big companies have embraced blogging? 81 of the Fortune 500 This is less than I would have guessed. As a comparison, roughly twice as many companies on the Inc. 500 list have blogs — and …

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Categories Web Globalization

Have you dined at the Translate Server Error lately?

May 8, 2009 by John Yunker

File this post under Lost in (Machine) Translation. This photo arrived courtesy of Gareth Morgan at Neovia Financial. Apparently the proprietor of this restaurant in China decided to create an English-language sign using machine translation (MT) software and, apparently, the …

Read moreHave you dined at the Translate Server Error lately?

Categories China, Machine Translation, Web Globalization

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