With a few hours to spare, here are the most popular blog posts of 2009, based on number of visitors: The rise of “international” English — otherwise known as American English Of Kosovo and .ks Bing Beats Google in Insta-translation…
I’m working on the Web Globalization Report Card, and this, plus my fascination with Facebook, inspired me to check out my Forgetting English page in several different languages. Here it is in Spanish… And Chinese… And, my favorite, “pirate English”……
As Katie Hafner writes in the NY Times, a number of people are taking a break from Facebook (or trying to). Call it a Facebreak. Facebook is all about scale. Hundreds of millions of users. And 10 billion minutes spent…
Smashing Magazine has an entertaining piece on the Unusable and Superficial World of Beer and Alcohol Websites. The “age gateway” was a topic I wrote about a year ago and I’m glad to see others chime in on the sheer…
It’s not every day I come across a survey localized into 18 languages. But I guess I should expect nothing less from one of the world’s largest translation agencies. Lionbridge wants to know what social media you use. If you…
Just what the world needs — two more URL shorteners. Google now has goo.gl. And Facebook has FB.me. But Google’s URL jumps out at me because it marks the first instance of Greenland (.gl) being used as a “countryless country…
I’ve long maintained that translation agencies need to get creative if they are to succeed in the age of machine translation. London-based Today Translations is doing just that — offering a Name Audit Service for soon-to-be parents. Do you think…
For a Westerner like myself, the most-popular Korean portals Naver and Daum are a maze of text and images. The pages are too busy, too distracting. But I’m not the intended user. Google Korea, as I mentioned in 2007, has…
Nominet, the UK registrar, published the results of a poll that found: More than three-quarters (77%) of British consumers prefer to use a .uk rather than a .com when searching for information on the Internet. Clearly, you have to hold…
For translation crowdsourcing to work, first you need crowds. And TED, which has been using the crowd to provide translation of its videos, is looking for a few more participants. Here’s a recent blog posting: Wanted: Translators The goal of…