iPhone app globalization: Ready for take-off
The WSJ has an article about iPhone developers taking their apps global. It’s very early days, but it’s safe to say that localization vendors are drooling over the possibilities. Although …
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Do you like? Test-driving the new Facebook social plugins
The nice thing about having your own web site (and perhaps a curse as well) is that you never tire of tinkering with it. So I decided yesterday to insert …
Country code wallpaper for your iPhone
I realize I’m a bit obsessed with country codes. It’s a sickness, I know. After I created the Country Codes of the World map, I began looking at other platforms …
Deloitte.com: The best global professional services website
We included nine professional services websites in the 2010 Web Globalization Report Card. The Web Globalization Report Card is an annual benchmark of how effectively companies internationalize and localize their websites …
eBay’s improved global gateway needs more improving
eBay has invested significantly in web localization over the years and it is a top-20 website in countries such as France, Italy, and the UK (Alexa). But it could do …
Bit.ly Pro is great news for ccTLD owners
Country code registrars around the world must have been smiling when Bit.ly announced its new enterprise service Bit.ly Pro. For $995 per month a company can leverage Bit.ly’s platform to …
Meet .co – An old country code with a new twist
A few months ago I wrote about the world’s most dangerous country codes. According to security firm McAfee, .cm is the most dangerous ccTLD because people frequently and incorrectly input …
SDL Globalization Conference: April 14th in Seattle
For those of you in the Seattle area, please join me at SDL’s Globalization Conference. I’ll be speaking on, what else, web globalization — focusing on the best global web …
ICANN approves IDNs for China, Taiwan, Thailand, Sri Lanka…
A few weeks back I asked Where is China’s IDN? ICANN not only answered my question about China, but also about a host of additional countries (and territory) that had …
When machine translation and volunteer translators collide: A YouTube/TED case study
Google recently announced a rather nifty feature in YouTube: Auto-translation of auto-generated video captions. So not only is Google automatically transcribing the text of its videos, it’s also providing translations …
The best global airline web site: American Airlines
As I prepare to hop on a plane to Europe, I’d like to focus briefly on the airline industry. I should preface this post by saying that I find “meta” …
In Canada, .ca is replacing .com
I spent a few days in Canada recently and was struck but how many billboards, newspapers, and web sites prominently displayed .ca instead of .com. I started writing down every …
Signs of a translation rebound in Latin America
Idea Factory Languages, with 85 full-time employees and production centers in Brazil and Argentina, specializes in translation and localization for the Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese language markets. CEO Teddy Bengtsson …
The best global hotel web site: InterContinental Hotels
We included nine hotel and resort brands in the 2010 Web Globalization Report Card. The Web Globalization Report Card is an annual benchmark of how effectively companies internationalize and localize …
Is Google the best machine translation engine? It depends…
Two weeks ago, I introduced Ethan Shen and his project to analyze the three major free machine translation (MT) engines — Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! Babelfish — by relying on …
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