Facebook is the best global web site of 2011
Analysis for The 2011 Web Globalization Report Card is now complete, and Facebook has emerged in first place, narrowly edging out Google. Last year, Google and Facebook tied for first …
John Yunker
Latino Link: Q&A with author Joe Kutchera
Hispanics make up about 15% of the US population, or 45 million people. Not only is this group growing at a faster pace than the national average, but its spending …
Select Country; Select Language
Just a quick note to highlight a guest article I wrote for UX Magazine on best practices in global gateways. Link
Previewing the 2011 Web Globalization Report Card
I’ve begun work on the 7th edition of the Report Card. To produce this report I individually review more than 200 global web sites across more than 20 industries. Needless …
A hit iPhone app, via Armenia
When I first discovered the popular iPhone photo app Instagr.am, my first thought was: Look, another creative use of a country code! In this case, the country code in question …
Translation Sharing is Caring
The TAUS Data Association (TDA) was founded about two years ago with the goal of creating a widely used and trusted platform for companies to share their translation memories. The …
Holiday Greetings from Lexiteria
Lexiteria, a unique word products and services company, licensed our world peace design and customized it with their logo and message. I’m biased naturally, but I really like this card! …
Select Language(s): Facebook takes language settings to the next level
Facebook is updating its user profile page (profiled in-depth here) and one of the changes is to ask users to self-select one or more languages. Facebook already looks at the …
Translation in the next century
Jaap van der Meer of TAUS wrote a great article on translation in the next century. A few choice quotes: In this new regime, translation is multidirectional, from any language …
Inside Google’s language detection tool
One of the highlights of attending the 2010 Unicode Conference was listening to Richard Sites explain how he developed Google’s statistical language detection algorithm. You may have already used this …
The next Internet revolution will not be in English
This visual depicts about half of the currently approved internationalized domain names (IDNs), positioned over their respective regions. Notice the wide range of scripts over India and the wide range …
US opposes ICANN on gTLD rollout
Just as ICANN preps for the rollout of its much-hyped gTLD program, the US Dept. of Commerce comes along and makes a scene. I read the Dept. of Commerce letter and …
We need to talk about your Amazon sales ranking…
As many of you know, I recently published the novel The Tourist Trail. These days, many writers also produce “book trailers” to promote their works. But since my book is …
World Peace
‘Tis the season for greeting cards. Here is ours… I’ve posted the design to Zazzle. They may be customized with company name, etc. World Peace (green) World Peace (white)
If Russians are wary of Cyrillic domains, who’s buying them?
About a year ago, the NY Times ran an article with the headline: Russians Wary of Cyrillic Web Domains. As someone who has long been bullish on the future of …
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