Last call for the Website Globalization in Life Sciences webinar
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.
What do you get for the billionaire who has everything? How about a vanity TLD?
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 …
Now you can register the Korean equivalent of .com: 닷컴
Earlier this year Verisign, the registry that manages the .com and .net domains, began rolling out the localized Japanese equivalent of .com: .コム. Today, Verisign adds another language to the mix, with …
Web Globalization Leaders in Life Sciences
As life sciences companies broaden their global sights to include new and emerging markets, their global (and mobile) websites have not always kept pace. SDL recently commissioned a report in …
Adobe: The best global consumer technology website of 2016
For the 2016 Web Globalization Report Card, we studied the following 15 consumer technology websites: Adobe Apple Canon Dell HP HTC Lenovo LG Microsoft Nikon Panasonic Samsung Sony Toshiba Xiaomi The …
American Express: The best global financial services website of 2016
For the 2016 Web Globalization Report Card, we studied 9 financial services websites: Allianz American Express Axa Citibank HSBC Marsh MasterCard Visa Western Union American Express emerged on top with support …
What’s the most multilingual website?
I often point to Wikipedia as one of the most multilingual websites on the Internet. Which is a major reason why Wikipedia finished in third place in the 2016 Web Globalization Report …
You can now register the Japanese equivalent of .com: .コム
And so it begins. Verisign, the registrar that manages .com domains, has begun its rollout of non-Latin .com equivalents, beginning with Japanese: Now, if you don’t have a Japanese domain name, …
Say hello to the first .google domain
Google announced the launch of domains.google. today, not a new service but a newly “domained” service. I think it’s fitting that the first public use of .google is applied to …
Chinese marathoners suffer from lack of translation
According to People’s Daily, a number of runners in a South China marathon suffered from more than simply lack of hydration. Try lack of translation. The bar of soap shown above was …
Intel: The best global enterprise technology website of 2016
For the 2016 Web Globalization Report Card, we studied 11 enterprise technology websites: Autodesk Cisco Systems EMC IBM Huawei Intel Oracle SAP Texas Instruments Xerox VMware With support for 23 languages, Intel …
Chinese drawing even with English on global websites
Over the past decade Simplified Chinese has grown to become one of the most popular languages on global websites, second only to English. According to the Web Globalization Report Card, …
The best global automotive website of 2016: BMW
For the 2016 Web Globalization Report Card, we studied 13 automotive websites: Audi BMW Chevrolet Ford Honda Hyundai Land Rover Lexus Mercedes Mini Nissan Toyota Volkswagen I want to preface this …
Join me in Santa Clara next month for a web globalization event
I’m pleased to be presenting next month in Santa Clara, California on website globalization best practices. I’ll be drawing heavily on the most recent Report Card. And I’ll also be joined …
Is your website losing the language race?
For the past 12 years, the Web Globalization Report Card has closely tracked the languages supported by the leading global websites, including companies such as Apple, IBM, 3M, GE, Microsoft, and Google. …