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Month: August 2011

Another day, another abused country code

August 31, 2011 by John Yunker

Everyone has a hobby and I suppose one of mine is looking for web sites that use (or abuse) country codes (ccTLDs). I was recently pointed to a new web app called It’s Almo.st. If you’re into countdown clocks, this …

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Categories Web Globalization

(Insert company name here) stumbles in China

August 24, 2011 by John Yunker

From the article Groupon stumbles in China in The Wall Street Journal: Foreign Internet companies have long struggled in China, which has more Internet users than any other country. Yahoo Inc., one of the earliest to enter, handed over its China business …

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Categories Business globalization, China, Google, Web Globalization

IBM: A tale of two global gateways

March 31, 2013August 22, 2011 by John Yunker

IBM, much to my chagrin, has used a lengthy pull-down menu as its global gateway for years. Here’s what it looks like: There are two problems with this menu, the first being that web users in Sweden, Turkey and other …

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Categories Global navigation, Web Globalization

Yandex headed to Turkey, and beyond

April 1, 2013August 18, 2011 by John Yunker

Now that Yandex is a public company there is much speculation about which markets the search engine known as Russia’s Google plans to expand into next. You don’t have to look further than the Yandex.com home page to see that …

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Categories Google, Web Globalization

What the heck is an IDN and why you should care

August 16, 2011 by John Yunker

Here’s a new article I’ve written for UX Magazine on the emergence of internationalized domain names (IDNs). I view IDNs as an inevitable (albeit awkward) evolution of the Internet. And here are the previous two articles I’ve written for UX Magazine: Select Country; …

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Categories Country Codes, Domain names, Global By Design, Global navigation, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Web Globalization

The Death of the Global Manager

August 8, 2011 by John Yunker

Great article by Julia Hanna of Harvard Business School in Working Knowledge: “Today, I would argue that you don’t put that qualifying adjective in front of manager—we all simply operate in a global environment,” Bartlett says. “It used to be …

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Categories Business globalization

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