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The IDN media deluge begins |
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ICANN has been talking about IDNs for years. For that matter, so have I.
So I half-expected a “boy that cried wolf” scenario to play out when ICANN finally did approve IDNs.
That is, ICANN would say “IDNs are coming!” and the media would collectively yawn.
But that’s not what happened.
IDNs have received a media blitz over the [...] |
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Strange Maps: The Book |
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If you like maps and you haven’t yet discovered the Strange Map blog, I recommend checking it out.
It’s oddly addictive.
Now there’s a print version — Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities.
Included within the book is our very own Country Codes of the World map.
I received a copy this week and plan to dive in [...] |
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IDNs coming in 2010. Really. |
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It’s beginning to feel like Groundhog Day when I read these “IDNs are coming” articles.
Here’s one I read this morning about ICANN’s meeting in Seoul, happening now, where the powers that be are expected to approve “fast track” IDNs.
The article notes:
“This is the biggest change technically to the Internet since it was invented 40 years [...] |
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Global gateways don’t have to be complicated |
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The Visit Korea tourism web site offers up a global gateway that’s difficult to ignore:
I like it. The languages are presented in the native scripts. The user has to select one before entering the site. Most of all, I like that the languages aren’t hidden behind a pull-down menu. |
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Drudge Report: News from the future? |
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Am I missing something here? The page title for the Drudge Report is dated 2010. Maybe Drudge is just anxious to usher in a new year… |
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Translation crowdsourcing is the new black — and you can tweet me on that |
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Was there any doubt that Twitter would not try to crowdsource its translations?
After Facebook proved that it could use volunteers to go from 1 to 100 languages in two years, it was just a matter of time before Twitter adopted the same model.
Twitter is starting out with the FIGS (French, Italian, German, and Spanish). And [...] |
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We interrupt this blog to congratulate Midge Raymond |
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Midge, as many of your know, not only runs Byte Level, she writes.
Short stories mostly. Lots of short stories. And short stories aren’t exactly where the fast bucks are being made these days.
So it’s nice to see her getting recognized for her work.
She is a 2009 Artist Trust Fellowship recipient!
I know I’m slightly biased, but [...] |
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There is no such thing as a global slogan |
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Here’s an article that confirms what consumers apparently know but many companies have yet to figure out — that English-language slogans don’t make much sense to people who don’t speak English. In this article, the German publication Spiegel actually asked people what a number of these English slogans meant and only 25% answered correctly.
But hey, [...] |
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I’m flattered that Pentagram would “imitate” my country codes poster |
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the saying goes.
So I suppose I should have been flattered when I came across four new posters by the esteemed design firm Pentagram.
Judge for yourself.
Here’s one of the Pentagram posters:
And here’s mine:
It could very well be coincidence that the designers came up with their concept independently. But I [...] |
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Kindle goes international, but not multilingual |
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The Kindle has gone international, sort of.
That is, Amazon is launching a new Kindle outfitted with a radio chip that works in most of the world’s cellular markets (100+) — as opposed to the US-only Kindle, which operates only on Sprint’s network.
Unfortunately, just because someone in, say, Russia will be able to download a book, [...] |
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Job posting: Marketing Manager – Localization |
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I was contacted recently about a rather interesting and specialized job opening in the globalization space. So I thought I’d throw it open to the readers of this blog.
The position is with a very large global company based outside of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Here is the job description:
The Marketing Manager-Localizations position will report to the Mgr-Localization [...] |
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.YU we hardly knew you |
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It’s funny how top-level domain names (TLDs) outlast the countries they represent.
In 2007 I wrote about the end of .YU (Yugoslavia), though it didn’t exactly go away back then.
Stephane Gelder writes that the TLD for Yugoslavia expires officially in a week, to be replaced by .RS (Serbia).
So this is it. Goodbye .YU. It was nice [...] |
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Three rules of global gateway design |
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It’s been awhile since I’ve written about global gateways – those landing pages and header elements that companies use to direct visitors to localized web sites.
I came across one that I’ve been meaning to write about for some time — it’s the home page of a promotion Hyatt Hotels ran several months ago.
The site is [...] |
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Chinese IME, aka Etch A Sketch |
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I’m fairly certain that I’m not using the iPhone Chinese IME in the way it was intended. |
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IDNs on are the “fast track” |
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Could it be happening? Finally? After all these years?
Internationalized domain names at last becoming a reality around the world — and not just in China?
It’s looking that way.
For starters, the IETF is in “last call” of IDNAbis — which is a revision to the 2003 IDNA standard. This revision irons out a number of nagging [...] |
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Bit.ly is leaving Libya for the islands |
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So Bit.ly has launched an even shorter URL: J.mp.
You can’t get any shorter than this, at least not until we see single-digital TLDs.
I can’t help but wonder if this new URL is a sign that Bit.ly is planning to shift away from its Libyan-dependent domain to one that may be a tad bit more politically [...] |
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North of Norway |
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This post has absolutely nothing to do with web globalization.
You’ve been warned.
About two years ago Midge and I took a cruise to Svalbard, a group of islands a hundred miles of so south of the polar ice cap.
A National Geographic photographer was on board: Paul Nicklen. He was on assignment and he gave some really [...] |
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Chinese IME: From iPhone to laptop |
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Via Blogos, I was fascinated to read that the new Mac Snow Leopard OS features a Chinese input method editor (IME) that allows users to input characters via track pad.
Here’s a video of it in action (with some rather odd musical accompaniment):
What’s particularly interesting is that this IME began on the iPhone.
Here is a screen [...] |
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Google Translate: Now in 51 languages |
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In February of this year, Google Translate surpassed 40 languages.
Six months later, Google added ten more languages, a two-year growth trajectory illustrated below:
Google went from 13 languages to 51 languages in less than 16 months.
Not bad.
And, yes, I’m aware that we must not confuse quantity of translations with quality of translations. Your translation mileage will [...] |
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WordPress launches wp.me |
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Another day, another URL shortener. Only this one I think will be around a lot longer than many that are out there.
That’s because it’s supported by WordPress.
It’s also the world’s first two-letter Montenegro (.me) domain.
Even though I use Bit.ly on Twitter, I still have concerns about what would happen if Libya clamped down on its [...] |
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