Adventures in web globalization, since 2002
This blog began more than a decade ago when WordPress was available in English only. WordPress is now available, fully translated, in 50 languages, in impressive achievement. Polyglots Team Experiences …
Flipkart has long been the dominant ecommerce retailer in India, but Amazon is no longer content to remain in second place. Amazon launched its Great Indian Festival promotion this week with free prizes including a …
Nike made an important improvement to its global gateway over the past year that I want to draw your attention to. First, let’s take a look at the home page, …
I want to thank internet researcher Anat Ben-David for sharing this photo of her office wall. I’ve usually seen our Country Codes of the World print framed in black but I think white …
For the 2016 Web Globalization Report Card, we studied five professional services websites: Accenture Capgemini Deloitte Ernst & Young KPMG PWC This is the first year in some time that none …
In a development that few people will notice but is interesting to us domain geeks, Apple is in the process of retiring its news.apple.com domain in favor of apple.news. The .news domain …
Here is Subaru’s new global automotive platform: Toyota also has a global platform, shown here: I’ve long made the case that a global auto platform is analogous to a global website …
Canon recently launched its generic top-level domain (gTLD) .canon at http://global.canon. In doing so, the company plans to migrate away from canon.com to .canon, presumably with different divisions and/or geographies occupying subdomains. …
I visited the home page of the Chinese online travel agency website Ctrip recently and came across this odd flag: Just because the UK voted to separate from the EU …
Make no mistake. The proposed deal between Boeing and Iran Air for 88 jets is a huge deal, not so much in dollars but in symbolism. Because there are many …
Looks like it’s time I update my European Union map, removing a key country code: Brexit underscores a point I’ve made over the years — that country codes are more relevant to users …
I remember when Google Translate went live. Hard to believe it was 10 years ago. I remember thinking that this relatively new technology, known as Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), was going to change …
It has been a decade since Google Translate took machine translation to the masses — a topic for a future post. But most companies will not be using Google Translate …
I’ll be presenting tomorrow (May 25) at 1pm EDT on web globalization leaders in life sciences, including best practices and trends. You can register here.
I love this story in CircleID about how the Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li has registered the generic top-level domain .richardli. I have no idea what he paid but the …