Who says Latin’s a dead language?
Thanks to Google Translate, the language is alive and ready for copy and pasting. Link
Thanks to Google Translate, the language is alive and ready for copy and pasting. Link
UPS is running a “New Logistics” advertising campaign supported by a web site that has been localized into three languages. I visited the site (http://thenewlogistics.ups.com) and I couldn’t help but comment on the global gateway used in the footer. Here …
To date, there have been 33 internationalized domain name (IDN) requests across 22 languages. Most recently, India and Korea passed the string evaluation stage with their IDNs. I’ve updated my IDN page to include these new domains. India is particularly fascinating. …
Tech pundit John Gruber threw in the towel on his domain ✪df.ws. He writes: What I didn’t foresee was the tremendous amount of software out there that does not properly parse non-ASCII characters in URLs, particularly IDN domain names. Twitter …
For years, web designers have been restricted to a paltry range of fonts. It’s not that operating systems don’t support many fonts. They do. It’s just that web sites must work across all kinds of operating systems — and all …
I’ve long espoused the benefits of using geolocation to improve global navigation. But I also am quick to add a few caveats, the principal one being that users may not appreciate the potential “big brother” feel of geolocation. Just because …
In 1999, I first used the term “global gateway.” At the time, I was referring to a company’s “select language” pull-down menu. Needless to say, the term stuck. But it has also evolved. Today, a global gateway is so much more …
An article in The Wall Street Journal talks about the American “two track” economy — in which US companies that sell globally are doing much better than those focused only domestically. One quote jumped out at me: But John Farrell, …
Last week I said I’d love to see more profiles of global-minded business execs and, sure enough, the Journal delivers. Here’s an interview with the Philips Electronics CEO Gerard Kleisterlee. According to the article, the company’s emerging-market sales increased 29% in …