ICANN and the Internet ecosystem
Last month, Rod Beckstrom, President of ICANN, spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Here’s the video. It’s a great introduction to how ICANN has evolved and where …
Month: February 2010
Bangladesh applies for an IDN
Seventeen countries have applied for IDNs so far, but we only know the details on four of them: Saudi Arabia (SA): السعودية Egypt (EG): مصر United Arab Emirates (AE): امارات …
What’s the best free machine translation engine?
Google Translate is the first place I turn for free machine translation (MT), mostly because it supports the greatest number of language pairs. I use Microsoft Translator as well, but …
Facebook’s global gaffe
Facebook, with support for more than 70 languages, promises to do very well in our 2010 Report Card. That said, a week ago Facebook began rolling out a new design …
Back to Byte Level
After more than a year at Microsoft, I have decided to return to Byte Level Research. It was a tough decision to make. I enjoyed working with the many people …
Happy Chinese New Year
Let me guess. Year of the Tiger?
Web Globalization Report Card Update: More Geolocation. More Languages
After three weeks of analyzing Web sites for the 2010 Web Globalization Report Card, a number of interesting trends are coming together, and I thought I’d share a couple of …