The Last Days of Yahoo! 1.0
Perhaps I’m a curmudgeon, but I don’t want to give up my old Yahoo! Web site for the “new and improved” Yahoo! that is coming — whether I like it …
Quechua Has Friends in High Places
Quechua is the language of the Incan Empire and is spoken by roughly 10 million people throughout South America, the majority of whom live in Peru and Bolivia. Recent developments …
Welocalize: Climbing Up the Inc 500 List
Welocalize announced today that it had made the Inc 500 list for a second year in a row. The company moved up from 407 last year to 327 this year, …
The World Population: Think Inside the Box
Bettina Speckman has created a rectangular map of the world’s poputation, in which the size of the rectangle is relative to the size of a given country’s population. It really …
Marketing to Chuppies
UPS recently hired a Chinese market research firm to survey 1,200 “Chuppies” Chinese, urban, middle-class consumers. What they found is good news for American companies looking to expand into this …
Google Desktop in 28 Languages
Google Desktop began as a simple application that would let you search your computer’s hard drive as quickly as it searches the Internet. And, best of all, it was free. …
Lionbridge Helps The Well Project Reach the World
Lionbridge announced today that it “is localizing the web site for The Well Project Inc., a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to change the course of the HIV/AIDS pandemic through …
Welcome to Global By Design
Global By Design is the name of a newsletter launched by Byte Level Research on January 2005. In a very short time it has become the world’s most widely read …
eBay Tries to Expand Globally Without Offending Locally
eBay, despite doing business in more than 20 countries, still earns the bulk of its revenues from US sellers, folks who have been increasingly unhappy about steadily increasing listing fees. …
Unicode Turns 5.0 Today
There was some mighty big news made today — mighty big if you’re a globalization geek — the fifth iteration of Unicode was officially launched. Says the press release: “The …
Lionbridge Says Freeway Off to Strong Start
Lionbridge issued a press release today on the growth of its new Web-based translation memory (TM) application, Logoport. Here are some notable stats: – The volume of words managed by …
Chinese as a Second Language (Cont.)
According to Reuters, China is doing its part to help the world learn to speak its language. It just launched the Chinese-instruction Web site: Linese.com. It’s somewhat ironic that the …
Google’s Middle East Expansion
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has chosen “Egypt as its first outpost in the Arab world because it is the most populous country in the region, with 78 …
Google Cashes Out of Baidu
Baidu is the “Google” of China with 51% of the market (according to CNNIC). Awhile back, Google bought a small chunk of the company, before it went public, presumably with …
How Wikipedia Manages Multilingual Content Expectations
Wikipedia came in second in our 2006 Web Globalization Report Card for a number of reasons. Not only does it offer content in more than 100 languages, it does a …