No Ordinary Disruption: It’s time to reset intuitions
I was given a review copy of No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends, which I read over the weekend. The authors are Richard Dobbs, James …
Month: May 2015
Hotels.com, Hotels.ng and the value of country codes
I read today about the Nigerian startup Hotels.ng and my first thought was why Hotels.com didn’t already own the Nigerian country code. After all, Hotels.com owns country codes for France and …
Global gateway fail: App Annie
I want to focus on App Annie because it appears the company is planning to significantly expand its global reach — and therefore needs a gateway suited to task. Currently, …
The humans behind machine translation
Google Translate is the world’s most popular machine translation tool. And, despite predictions by many experts in the translation industry, the quality of Google Translate has improved nicely over the past …
Who needs BRIC when you have the Blue Banana?
Perhaps it’s human nature (or perhaps just savvy marketing) to think up new and unique ways of organizing our world. BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) is one popular grouping. And did you …
Greece gets an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN)
Greece has received string approval for an IDN, shown below in red: This brings to 35 the number countries with approved IDNs — and an impressive range of scripts, shown here: I’ve just …
Translators Without Borders and the Wikipedia 100-language project
Translators Without Borders is an amazing organization of volunteer translators using their skills to make the world a better place. One project worth noting is an ambitious effort to translate valuable …