Adventures in web globalization, since 2002
John Yunker Richard Ishida provides an excellent introduction to Indic scripts, specifically Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, and Telugu. I’ve always found these scripts to be very intimidating and …
Here is another fine Q&A from Richard Ishida of the World Wide Web Consortium Internationalization Group: What are the trade-offs between international sites that are monolingual vs. multilingual?
A nice article in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on how Web globalization benefits small business owners.
Here is a very timely article on the growing relevance of multilingual, multicultural employees to the success of their companies within the U.S. and abroad. According to the article: No …
As more and more Web sites make use of cascading style sheets (CSS), more and more Webmasters will struggle with localizing these sites into additional languages. Here is a valuable …
It it sometimes assumed that Unicode is a popular encoding “behind the scenes” but rarely used on the home pages of major corporate Web sites. While many major corporate Web …
An excellent article on the challenges of running a global team: CNET News Here is an excerpt: Even when employees have good language skills, they naturally interpret written and verbal …
Corporations, anxious for growth, are increasingly opening their eyes to the U.S. Latino market — a market that now has its own Web site: New Generation Latino Consortium. In the …
According to this article in USA Today, U.S. retailers are finally waking up to lucrative – and growing – market right under their noses: Hispanics. AOL, Nissan, and Office Depot …
Creative Destruction: How Globalization is Changing the World’s Cultures is an important book. It’s also an accessible book, free of business jargon and consultant-speak. Tyler Cowen takes a very practical …
Microsoft has posted the presentations from the most recent Unicode conference online. While some presentations are a tad bit on the cryptic side, others are worth a look. I found …
A few savvy American companies have known this for some time now, but it took the recent global protests of “American” products to make the rest of corporate America rethink …
The research firm comScore Networks just released the results of a survey of more than 50,000 U.S. Hispanic Web surfers. This study found that U.S. Hispanic Internet users outnumber the …
Since its inception, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been criticized for favoring the U.S. over other countries. But with a new president in office, Australian Paul …
Multilingual Computing has published a very useful supplement on best practices in Web globalization. You can download a copy here. The following is an excerpt from an article that I …