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 half of their Web traffic is coming from outside of…
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 growing demand for products that promote dual language skills among…
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 cause for confusion on both ends of the line. The…
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, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi. Punjabi? There are only a handful…
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 of entrepreneurial cowboys heading out to the great frontiers. Yes…
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. Transliterated? If this term is new to you, it is…
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 B.A. in Chinese language and history from Cornell, and an…
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 or not — on September 1st. Every day they remind…
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 suggest that this “minority” language is not going gently into…
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.