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Facebook hits German competitors

January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you’ve read this blog recently, you are aware of John’s reports on Facebook’s efforts to translate its Website into German and other European languages. I am a keen observer of the “kraut-sourcing” efforts. However, in Germany Facebook faces an entrenched competitor: “StudiVZ”.
StudiVZ is a social networking platform, very similar to Facebook. In contrast [...]

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Tags: Business globalization · Software Localization

Marketing opportunities in the German blogosphere

December 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

How big is the German blogosphere? This is important for Web marketeers who want to sponsor or advertise on German blogs.

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Tags: Guest Articles · Languages · Web Globalization

How international are German Websites?

November 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

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 best to give you some insights into Web internationalization in Germany.
I thought a good place to start was with a few simple statistics to see [...]

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Tags: Guest Articles · Web Globalization