Google provides a bit of multilingual Web site advice
It’s not much, but it’s a start. Basically, Google says you don’t necessarily have to register a country code for each country Web site (though it certainly helps). But if …
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Global by Design now in 25 languages
I read about a startup (via Techcrunch) recently called mloovi. The service leverages Google Translate to provide real-time translations of your blog feed. I’ve installed the widget over on the …
Watch out ProZ, here comes Google Translation Center
Within the translation industry, ProZ is widely known as the leading public network of freelance translators and buyers of translation services. But here comes Google… According to Blogoscoped, Google is …
Kosovo requests ccTLD
Can an international crisis be started over a country code? That’s what I can’t help but wonder when I read that Kosovo has requested its own country code domain. Serbia …
Map of the World Wide Web: Get ’em while they last
I’ve got about a hundred copies of this map remaining and I’m offering them for $3 each for orders of 25 or $2 each for orders of 50 (plus postage). …
China now leads in Internet users (and country codes)
The NY Times reports that China has surpassed the US in terms of Internet users. This comes via China’s state-controlled Internet Network Information Center. Here are the key numbers: United …
Has Google hit a language ceiling?
Google announced that they now have 30 products available in 30 languages. And many of these products, such as Gmail and Adwords, now support 40 languages. Here is a graph …
Will Facebook become the world’s largest translation platform?
Techcrunch reports from Facebook’s developer conference today in which company announced that it would open its “crowdsourcing” translation platform to its legion of application developers. Here’s the press release excerpt: …
DomainUnavailable.me
GoDaddy, the US registrar with rights to the much-hyped .me ccTLD, opened registration to the general public today and it looks like things have not gone all that smoothly. TechCrunch …
The iPhone App localization opportunity
So after a slow start upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 OS on Friday, I’ve since had a chance to review a number of the apps and have been very impressed …
Living in iPhone upgrade limbo
Apple seems to have made a mess of its new iPhone rollout. I have the old iPhone and tried to upgrade this morning. Apparently I’m one of many thousands of …
Web globalization trends: A free Webinar
I will be presenting a Webinar sponsored by Lionbridge this Wednesday and I hope you can join us. Here are the details: Web Globalization Trends to Watch Wednesday, July 9, …
Google perpetuates the American .com myth
Google features a 4th of July logo at Google.com today. This is not all that unusual; Google has been doing this for several years now. But there is an inherent …
The coming gTLD explosion (or not)
ICANN, the folks who manage Internet domains, recently decided to open up the generic top-level domain (gTLD) space to anyone who can afford it and can navigate ICANN’s complex approval …
Two thoughts on Euro 2008 and Web globalization
Congratulations to Spain for emerging on top of Euro 2008. I can’t say that I was pulling for any one team, but I would have loved to have seen Germany …
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