Why Is Web Globalization So Popular? Just Look at the Numbers…
I was happy to see a press release from comScore Networks illustrating in raw numbers what many Webmasters have been telling me privately over the years — that more than …
Languages
Happy Bilingual Holidays!
Toys ‘R’ Us has released its top 5 toy trends for the 2006 holiday season and trend number two was nice to see… Trend #2: Bilingual Toys Catering to the …
You Don’t Know Jack: The Case for Controlled Vocabulary
The Rockley Bulletin features a great article on the importance of using controlled vocabularies, particularly for documentation. The article cites a customer support call in which the word “jack” is …
World Wide School District
When I first saw this Web site I couldn’t believe it — a school district Web site that supports 25 languages — that’s right, 25 — including Russian, Somalian, Chinese, …
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By guest author: Marc Garnaut Spark Media Lab I’ve been sharing my morning coffee for the past year or two with the “yee-ha”s of corporate wagons circling and the “forward-ho”cries …
Dell Loses Trademark Suit in China
According to The Beijing News, via Rich Kuslan’s blog, Dell lost a suit against a research institute over the fact that its name sounds too much like Dell’s transliterated name. …
Scaling a Great Wall: Top 5 Tips for Learning Chinese
By guest author: Saul Gitlin, EVP-Strategic Services Kang & Lee Advertising – A Young & Rubicam Brands/WPP Group Company As a non-Asian student in the 1980’s who graduated with a …
The Last Days of Yahoo! 1.0
Perhaps I’m a curmudgeon, but I don’t want to give up my old Yahoo! Web site for the “new and improved” Yahoo! that is coming — whether I like it …
Quechua Has Friends in High Places
Quechua is the language of the Incan Empire and is spoken by roughly 10 million people throughout South America, the majority of whom live in Peru and Bolivia. Recent developments …
Adiós Inglés
According to Global Reach’s latest statistics on the use of language online, only 36.5 percent of the global online population are native English speakers.