Best global retail web site: IKEA
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted findings from the 2010 Web Globalization Report Card, but I did want to include a brief note on the retail sector. We define this industry …
John Yunker
Upcoming: Speaking at LocWorld and Unicode Conference
I’m happy to be not only attending but speaking at Localization World and Unicode Conference in October. Here are the details on my sessions: Localization World Seattle, WA October 6: International …
Amazon’s Kindle goes multilingual
The Kindle 3 was announced last evening. The big news about the device is the price — starting at $139. You could argue that this is the first mass-market e-reader. …
Embedded text is untranslated text, courtesy of Google
Google Translate is a great tool for translating content on the fly — and on the cheap. And as Google noted in its blog, Poland’s Ministry of Economy is taking …
Another country code bites the dust. Say goodbye to .AN
.AN is the ccTLD for the Netherlands Antilles which is about to fade into the sunset. Its days as a country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands will end in …
Congrats, Spain
Now I can get back to my regularly scheduled life.
Translation memory goes open source: An interview with Smith Yewell of Welocalize
Translation memory helps companies re-use previously translated text, improving consistency and potentially saving money. But translation memory requires using translation memory software, which has for years largely meant using SDL …
Apple iPhone 4 improves international support
The iPhone is a global success story. And one of the reasons for this success can be attributed to the device’s support for more than 30 languages. But with the …
Interview: The Globalization of an Auctioneer Web Site
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s largest auctioneer of heavy equipment and trucks, recently launched a redesigned (and more global) web site. Auction web sites are much like ecommerce web sites — that …
Chinese IDNs have arrived
ICANN gave approval to Chinese IDNs — for China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. This is a significant development — particularly since China was one of the major forces pushing ICANN …
Speaking in Tongues: What’s the most multilingual religion web site?
Awhile back, Anirvan Chatterjee, founder of BookFinder. emailed me to ask if I knew of any other religion web site that supported more languages than the site of the Jehovah’s …
Going Global Gracefully
A great quote from an interview with Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu, authors of the new book Winning in Emerging Markets: Multinationals based in developed countries as well as …
LAN Airlines and its local Twitter feed
LAN Airlines is trying to expand its US presence. I’ve flown the airline once — back when it was known as LAN Chile. I received an email from them last week …
TAUS drops membership fees, finally
The Translation Automation User Society has always been an organization that I’ve admired more in theory than in practice. That is, I admire the organization’s goal of broadly sharing translation …
Have you localized your error messages?
While trying (and failing) to buy an iPhone this morning, I’ve encountered three different error screens. Here’s my favorite: I seriously doubt that “Oops!” has been localized for different markets. …