Have you dined at the Translate Server Error lately?
File this post under Lost in (Machine) Translation. This photo arrived courtesy of Gareth Morgan at Neovia Financial. Apparently the proprietor of this restaurant in China decided to create an …
Web Globalization
Facebook: From 1 to 100 languages in two years
It was just over a year ago that Facebook started localizing itself for the world. As I noted then, the company utilized crowdsourcing to spur its translation efforts. And though …
Forgetting English
I’m thrilled to announce that Eastern Washington University Press has just published a short story collection by my wife, Midge Raymond: Forgetting English. Readers of this blog will certainly appreciate …
The rise of “international” English — otherwise known as American English
I was on the Boingo Web site recently and I encountered a language picker with “English Intl.” listed as an option, as shown here: This was not the first Web …
The dawn of a new era
I was walking to the bus this evening in Redmond and I was waiting at a traffic light. A young man on a bicycle pulled up next to me. He …
Global user experience is much more than a Web site
I bought a LaCie hard drive recently, and I noticed an interesting gap between the global usability of the LaCie Web site and the installation software that shipped with the …
The long goodbye
Lately I’ve been trying to reduce some of the noise in my inbox by unsubscribing from a number of email newsletter lists. It hasn’t been easy. For example, I unsubscribed …
United Airlines doesn’t speak Arabic
I wanted to highlight a great catch made by commenter Ben to my earlier post on United’s in-flight navigation system, shown here: If you look closely at the lower right …
March of the Magellanic Penguins
This has nothing to do with Web globalization, but it is something that I hope you’ll enjoy. It is a short story called The Tourist Trail. As you may remember, …
Web Globalization Certificate Program at St. Louis University
Professor Nitish Singh, author of The Culturally Customized Web Site, has just launched a certificate program in Web globalization management through St. Louis University. You can learn more at www.globalizationexecutive.com.
The global gateway at 35,000 feet
I flew to Japan recently and discovered that a new entertainment system had been installed on my flight. But what made the system worth mentioning here was what I saw …
The ROI of online press releases
The Society for New Communications Research has released a new study on the value of posting online press releases for all the world to see. In the old days of …
Geolocation in the Wall Street Journal
I was quoted briefly in an article in the Journal on the benefits of geolocation. Geolocation can be used to do many things, but I find it particularly useful in …