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Channel Description: Adventures in Web Globalization

 
Will Facebook become the world’s largest translation platform?
Techcrunch reports from Facebook’s developer conference today in which company announced that it would open its “crowdsourcing” translation platform to its legion of application developers. Here’s the press release excerpt: As a result of the worldwide success of Facebook’s translation system, the company has opened up the Translation Application to any developer using Facebook Platform. Beginning [...]
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DomainUnavailable.me
GoDaddy, the US registrar with rights to the much-hyped .me ccTLD, opened registration to the general public today and it looks like things have not gone all that smoothly. TechCrunch reports that people received credit charges for domains they in fact did not successfully register. Apparently GoDaddy had server/load issues. But if you want to register DomainUnavailable.me, [...]
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The iPhone App localization opportunity
So after a slow start upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 OS on Friday, I’ve since had a chance to review a number of the apps and have been very impressed so far (though a few did cause the iPhone to crash). As I reviewed the Apps in the iTunes store I began to notice that they [...]
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Living in iPhone upgrade limbo
Apple seems to have made a mess of its new iPhone rollout. I have the old iPhone and tried to upgrade this morning. Apparently I’m one of many thousands of people (or more) who have received nothing but error messages. Here is one of them: Apple had to know the strain to its servers would be [...]
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Web globalization trends: A free Webinar
I will be presenting a Webinar sponsored by Lionbridge this Wednesday and I hope you can join us. Here are the details: Web Globalization Trends to Watch Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT To register, click here. And if you can’t make the call, it will be recorded for playback.
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Google perpetuates the American .com myth
Google features a 4th of July logo at Google.com today. This is not all that unusual; Google has been doing this for several years now. But there is an inherent flaw in hosting an American visual at Google.com: The .com address is not synonymous with USA. I know, it’s a picky thing. And yet it’s not such [...]
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The coming gTLD explosion (or not)
ICANN, the folks who manage Internet domains, recently decided to open up the generic top-level domain (gTLD) space to anyone who can afford it and can navigate ICANN’s complex approval process. gTLDs are those domains to the right of the dot in the URL, such as .com and .biz. Currently there are 21 gTLDs. But going [...]
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Two thoughts on Euro 2008 and Web globalization
Congratulations to Spain for emerging on top of Euro 2008. I can’t say that I was pulling for any one team, but I would have loved to have seen Germany score a last-second goal to keep the tournament alive. Being the globalization geek that I am, I couldn’t help but check out the home page of [...]
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Changing the face of the Internet — one ccTLD at a time
Simon Johnson, co-founder of Domainer Income, interviewed me by phone recently on our Country Codes of World map. If you’re curious about how the map came to be — as well as what areas of the world .me, .bv, and .aq refer to, you can listen to the interview here. PS: Simon is based in .au.
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Meet me in St. Louis (and Indy)
I’m off to the Midwest today for two exciting events: Localization Certification Program: North America June 18, 2008 Boeing Institute of International Business, Saint Louis University St. Louis, MO I will join Nitish Singh in my hometown of St. Louis in talking about Web globalization best practices Click here for more information Documentation and Training Life Sciences 2008 June 23-28, 2008 Indianapolis, IN I will [...]
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IDNs become a presidential issue
Nick Wilsdon at Multilingual Search quotes a Russian news story in which Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev says “We must do everything we can to make sure that we achieve in the future a Cyrillic Internet domain name — it is a pretty serious thing. It is a symbol of the importance of the Russian language [...]
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Apple iPhone 3G illustrates the value of a global design template
Apple today announced the iPhone 3G — a tri-band phone that will operate in most countries around the world. So it’s no surprise that Apple wants to sell the iPhone in as many of these countries as quickly as possible. Fortunately, Apple supports a consistent design across its many country Web sites. So when it came [...]
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Google Adwords unavailable (in 17 languages)
I tried to login to Google Adwords recently and was met with the following “temporarily unavailable” Web page: The page illustrates one of the many the challenges of managing a Web site that supports so many languages. Even something supposedly as simple as this temporary page is not quite so simple. There are a whopping 17 [...]
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The world’s most dangerous country codes
McAfee has released a report that rates the world’s top level domains in terms of overall risk to the Web user — from browser exploits, phishing Web sites, excessive pop-ups, and other nasty things. The report finds that “19.2% of all Web sites ending in the .hk domain pose a security threat to Web users.” Last [...]
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2008 Global Intranet Survey invitation
Jane McConnell of NetStrategy/JMC is working on the third annual edition of the Global Intranet & Portal Strategies Survey and she needs your input. If you are not familiar with the survey, you can read some key observations from 2007 on JMC’s blog Globally Local: 2007 Highlights. All survey participants receive a free copy of [...]
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Translating numbers in China
As John wrote awhile back: All lucky numbers are local. And this is particularly true in China, where people pay thousands of dollars to obtain license plates with lucky numbers. So when it comes to naming products or setting prices, you have to be very careful about your choice of numbers. Here are some tips: 6 means “good [...]
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Web sites go black in China (cont.)
Here are some more localized Chinese Web sites that have gone black: McDonald’s Cisco Intel Oracle
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Web sites go black in China
If you visit the .com pages of Microsoft, Nokia, Sony, Apple, and Amazon, you’ll see the usual bursts of color and promotional elements — that is, business as usual. But if you visit the Chinese home pages of these five companies, you’re going to see the following: Although white more commonly signifies death and mourning in China, [...]
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Google Translate is growing up
What began as just another “gisting” application — like Babel Fish — is gradually becoming an impressive translation tool. And I’m not referring to the quality of translation, though that is improving as well. I’m referring to the breadth of languages and breadth of features that Google Translate supports. Today, Google announced that Google Translate added support [...]
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