Posts by: John Yunker

Meet .co – An old country code with a new twist

By On April 7, 2010 · 4 Comments

A few months ago I wrote about the world’s most dangerous country codes.

According to security firm McAfee, .cm is the most dangerous ccTLD because people frequently and incorrectly input .cm instead of .com. And they land on bogus web sites designed to capitalize on these mistakes.

Well, folks, get ready for another new [...]

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SDL Globalization Conference: April 14th in Seattle

By On April 5, 2010 · Leave a Comment

For those of you in the Seattle area, please join me at SDL’s Globalization Conference.

I’ll be speaking on, what else, web globalization — focusing on the best global web sites and what they have in common.

There will also be sessions by experts from SDL, RIM, and Microsoft.

The event is free and [...]

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ICANN approves IDNs for China, Taiwan, Thailand, Sri Lanka…

By On April 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A few weeks back I asked Where is China’s IDN?

ICANN not only answered my question about China, but also about a host of additional countries (and territory) that had applied for fast-track IDNs.

Here are the most recent IDN (string evaluation) approvals:

China (cn): 中國 (traditional); 中国 (simplified) Hong Kong (hk): 香港 Palestinian [...]

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When machine translation and volunteer translators collide: A YouTube/TED case study

By On April 2, 2010 · 1 Comment

Google recently announced a rather nifty feature in YouTube: Auto-translation of auto-generated video captions.

So not only is Google automatically transcribing the text of its videos, it’s also providing translations — via machine translation. Now I just need a “machine reader” so I can process all of this new content — as I’m running [...]

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