Category Web Globalization

Flags in Search of Countries

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) “UNPO is an international organisation created by nations and peoples around the world, who are not represented as such in the world´s principal international organisations, such as the United Nations.”

Vote, vota, bumoto…

“Los Angeles County is urging its citizens to vote, vota, bumoto or hay bo phieu. In fact, residents there will have seven languages to choose from when they cast their ballots on Election Day: English, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese…

Only Just Getting Started

Just when you begin to think that the Internet has become a way of life for the planet, you read a few Internet usage stats from Nua. According to the folks at Nua, just less than 10% of the world’s…

Locales demystified

For a very good overview of the challenges of overcoming our current locales dilemma, check out Tex Texin’s presentation from the recent Unicode conference. I’m not sure there is going to be an locales solution that pleases everyone. But we…

Scooby Doo domain name drama

The battle between Hannah Barbara and a fan site over the “scoobydoo.co.uk” domain has taken a new twist. You can read about it here. This episode underscoes the importance of companies reserving domain names globally from the onset.

Of Wal-Mart and Web sites

Wal-Mart has stores in 9 countries yet offers localized sites for only two of these countries: Germany and Mexico. And even these two sites are little more than facades. I’m going to do quite a bit more writing about why…