.FR reaches one million registrations
France became a member of the million domain club with its one-millionth .fr registration on January 11th. Here are the top six country codes based on registrations: Germany: 11,120,000 China: …
Is Facebook “translation worthy” or just plain cheap?
I read at Design Across Cultures that Facebook is planning to use “crowdsourcing” to allow its users to create translated content. Crowdsourcing is a hot new buzzword that is best …
Starwood Hotels broadens Chinese Web support
Starwood Hotels has announced that it has launched Chinese-language Web sites for all of its hotel brands — from Westin to Sheraton to St. Regis. The hotel chain had previously …
Baidu Japan: Coming January 23rd
Motoko Hunt over at Multilingual Search writes about Baidu, China’s leading search portal, and its official entry into Japan As I mentioned in last month, Baidu has long had its …
Language Weaver adds language pairs
Language Weaver has added five more language pairs to its repertoire: Arabic/Spanish Arabic/French French/Spanish Danish/English Greek/English What’s interesting here is that Language Weaver is moving beyond language pairs that include …
Most popular posts of 2007
I’ve had Google Analytics installed on this site for some time now, which makes it a great resource for tracking the most popular posts of the year. So here are …
Web globalization predictions: 2008 and beyond
As we come to the end of 2007, it is safe to say that Web globalization has evolved from an ancillary activity to a core piece of the marketing puzzle …
It’s a round world after all
I recently finished reading Redefining Global Strategies: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter by Pankaj Ghemawat. This book provides a strong counterpoint to Tom Friedman’s The World …
Marketing opportunities in the German blogosphere
How big is the German blogosphere? This is important for Web marketeers who want to sponsor or advertise on German blogs.
.AU reaches one million registrations
For Australia, with a population of just over 20 million, reaching one million domain registrations is pretty impressive. Says Adrian Kinderis, Managing Director of AusRegistry, the organization in charge of …
HP revenues: 67% international and growing
Today I read the following in the latest newsletter from LISA, the Localization Industry Software Association: LISA member HP has been in the business news in recent weeks — and …
Machine translation gets specialized
To follow up on my last post about the transformation of the translation industry, I was just sent a press release from a maker of statistical machine translation, Language Weaver, …
The end of translation as we know it
The translation industry has undergone significant change over the past two years — and not just in terms of consolidation. The changes are structural. Offices are more decentralized, as is …
Introducing Brian Heumann
If you read the post about German Web sites yesterday, you may have wondered how I know so much about Germany. Actually, I don’t. But Brian Heumann does. And that’s …
How international are German Websites?
John Yunker, the host of “Global by Design”, has invited me to publish some of my articles on this blog. I feel honoured to be here and will try my …