The WSJ has an article about iPhone developers taking their apps global. It’s very early days, but it’s safe to say that localization vendors are drooling over the possibilities. Although many apps aren’t going to present much in the way …
The nice thing about having your own web site (and perhaps a curse as well) is that you never tire of tinkering with it. So I decided yesterday to insert a few of the new Facebook social plugins into the …
I realize I’m a bit obsessed with country codes. It’s a sickness, I know. After I created the Country Codes of the World map, I began looking at other platforms for the design. And since I own an iPhone, I …
We included nine professional services websites in the 2010 Web Globalization Report Card. The Web Globalization Report Card is an annual benchmark of how effectively companies internationalize and localize their websites and applications for the world. Out of those nine companies, …
eBay has invested significantly in web localization over the years and it is a top-20 website in countries such as France, Italy, and the UK (Alexa). But it could do more to help more people find these local sites. Between …
Country code registrars around the world must have been smiling when Bit.ly announced its new enterprise service Bit.ly Pro. For $995 per month a company can leverage Bit.ly’s platform to support its own custom URL. (UPDATE: You can get Bit.ly …
A few months ago I wrote about the world’s most dangerous country codes. According to security firm McAfee, .cm is the most dangerous ccTLD because people frequently and incorrectly input .cm instead of .com. And they land on bogus web …
For those of you in the Seattle area, please join me at SDL’s Globalization Conference. I’ll be speaking on, what else, web globalization — focusing on the best global web sites and what they have in common. There will also …
A few weeks back I asked Where is China’s IDN? ICANN not only answered my question about China, but also about a host of additional countries (and territory) that had applied for fast-track IDNs. Here are the most recent IDN …
Google recently announced a rather nifty feature in YouTube: Auto-translation of auto-generated video captions. So not only is Google automatically transcribing the text of its videos, it’s also providing translations — via machine translation. Now I just need a “machine …