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Month: September 2009

.YU we hardly knew you

September 24, 2009 by John Yunker

It’s funny how top-level domain names (TLDs) outlast the countries they represent. In 2007 I wrote about the end of .YU (Yugoslavia), though it didn’t exactly go away back then. Stephane Gelder writes that the TLD for Yugoslavia expires officially …

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Categories Country Codes, Domain names

Three rules of global gateway design

September 21, 2009 by John Yunker

It’s been awhile since I’ve written about global gateways — those landing pages and header elements that companies use to direct visitors to localized web sites. I came across one that I’ve been meaning to write about for some time …

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Categories Global navigation, Web Globalization

Chinese IME, aka Etch A Sketch

September 12, 2009 by John Yunker

I’m fairly certain that I’m not using the iPhone Chinese IME in the way it was intended. TweetShareShare

Categories iPhone

IDNs on are the “fast track”

September 10, 2009 by John Yunker

Could it be happening? Finally? After all these years? Internationalized domain names at last becoming a reality around the world — and not just in China? It’s looking that way. For starters, the IETF is in “last call” of IDNAbis …

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Categories Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name)

Bit.ly is leaving Libya for the islands

September 10, 2009 by John Yunker

So Bit.ly has launched an even shorter URL: J.mp. You can’t get any shorter than this, at least not until we see single-digital TLDs. I can’t help but wonder if this new URL is a sign that Bit.ly is planning …

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Categories Business globalization, Country Codes, Domain names

North of Norway

September 6, 2009 by John Yunker

This post has absolutely nothing to do with web globalization. You’ve been warned. About two years ago Midge and I took a cruise to Svalbard, a group of islands a hundred miles of so south of the polar ice cap. …

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Categories Completely unrelated

Chinese IME: From iPhone to laptop

September 1, 2009 by John Yunker

Via Blogos, I was fascinated to read that the new Mac Snow Leopard OS features a Chinese input method editor (IME) that allows users to input characters via track pad. Here’s a video of it in action (with some rather …

Read moreChinese IME: From iPhone to laptop

Categories Apple, iPhone

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