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…
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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…