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Month: June 2012

Microsoft’s new web design — the bad and the good

June 29, 2012 by John Yunker

Saw on Daring Fireball that Microsoft is previewing its new global website (link). Naturally, I wondered “Where the heck did the global gateway go?” It used to be in the header. But no more. The global gateway has been demoted …

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Categories Microsoft

For the love of typewriters

August 14, 2012June 25, 2012 by John Yunker

Awhile back I printed up a batch of typewriter notecards based on a typewriter I had rescued years ago. It turns out a lot people love these notecards, so we now have a set of four unique typewriter cards. You …

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Categories Completely unrelated

Mongolia joins the IDN club with .мон

August 14, 2012June 20, 2012 by John Yunker

ICANN has approved Mongolia’s IDN application. Here’s a one-page list of all approved IDNs — a list that now includes 30 countries/territories. IDNs are laying the groundwork for a revolution that most people are completely unaware is happening.

Categories Country Codes, IDN (Intl. Domain Name)

The problem with the Internet is that it’s too global…

June 19, 2012 by John Yunker

From an interesting (and concerning) CircleID post by Milton Mueller: Three Chinese engineers are proposing a way to alter Internet standards to partition the Internet into autonomously administered national networks, using the domain name system (DNS). The idea was not proposed …

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Categories China, Country Codes

ICANN strikes domain name gold (updated)

September 12, 2012June 13, 2012 by John Yunker

The registration period for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), names like .google and .nyc, has been open for a short while and it appears that ICANN has won the lottery. According to Domain Incite, ICANN has received 1,900 registrations so far, …

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Categories Apple, Arabic, Country Codes, Google, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Microsoft

Looking for a translation icon?

September 12, 2012June 6, 2012 by John Yunker

If you haven’t visited the Noun Project yet, take a moment and drop by. It’s a great initiative to provide open source icons. All you have to do is provide attribution according to the Creative Commons license. I noticed recently …

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Categories Global navigation, Google, Machine Translation, Microsoft, Translation

Money talks (in many languages)

June 1, 2012 by John Yunker

It’s no secret that the US has been on a borrowing binge for quite some time. So when the US launched its redesigned $100 bill last year, the Fed went to great lengths to market the “Benjamin” globally. Check out …

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Categories Languages, Web Globalization

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