GoDaddy’s expanding global gateway
You can tell a lot about a company simply by keeping an eye on its global gateway. Here is the GoDaddy global gateway menu in March, 2014: And here it …
Web Globalization
Q&A with Kathleen Bostick of SDL
I was happy to chat (virtually) with Kathleen recently about web globalization. Here’s the interview.
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report: A web globalization persepective
It has become an annual ritual, Mary Meeker, a Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner, releases a data dump of key Internet stats and trends. Last year, I wrote a …
Speaking at SDL Innovate in San Francisco
I’m pleased to be speaking at the SDL Innovate conference in San Francisco on June 11th. I’ll be presenting on secrets of the best global websites. If you’re in the …
The best global travel websites (and why)
There are now more than one billion international travelers, making the travel industry a benchmark for web globalization innovation and excellence. So I’m pleased to be presenting a free webinar …
Xiaomi’s global expansion plans include Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand
In January, I wrote about Xiaomi’s success in crowdsourced translation of its operating system — and how this bodes well for global expansion. Xiaomi, for those who’ve never heard of …
Wikipedia and the Internet language chasm
When talking about language diversity across the Internet, I like to include a visual that illustrates the language leaders of the Internet: This chart is based on data from the …
GoDaddy’s new global gateway sets the stage for global growth
It’s nice to see GoDaddy improving its global gateway. Note the use of the globe icon below to indicate the global gateway menu: Click on the globe or locale name …
The worst global websites of the 2014 Web Globalization Report Card
You can be a wildly successful global company and still have a poorly localized website. A number of factors determine global success and the website is only one of these …
Google launches its first Japanese IDN
I’ve long talked about the importance of non-Latin domain names, or IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names). Google has gone live with one if its many IDNs: みんな. I want to emphasize here …
Localizing your website for Canada: It’s more challenging than you might think
My latest post for client Pitney Bowes on localizing for Canada. An excerpt: As they begin their global expansion, American companies often select Canada first under the assumption that the …
WhatsApp: Another “translation worthy” success story
I wrote recently that if you can make your product “translation worthy” the world will follow. Reading about Facebook’s purchase of WhatsApp I went back and did some language crunching. …
Five reasons you should take your ecommerce global – and five reasons you shouldn’t
My latest post for client Pitney Bowes on going global (or not). An excerpt — Two reasons NOT to go global: 1. You don’t have realistic expectations (and budgets). The …
A look back at the language growth of eBay, Coke, Apple, AmEx and Amazon
Sometimes it’s difficult to see a revolution when you’re standing right in the middle of it. Which is how I still feel sometimes when it comes to web globalization. Web …
The top 25 global websites from the 2014 Web Globalization Report Card
UPDATE: The 2017 Web Globalization Report Card is now available. More than ten years ago I set out to create a report that benchmarked global websites. I looked at languages …