Global by Design

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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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My previous post on Twitter got me thinking about what other companies had registered language-specific domains for their Twitter accounts. Turns out, most companies haven’t even registered Twitter accounts for their primary brands. Like who? Apple, for one. Here we have someone who apparently likes apples but isn’t Apple: It appear that Microsoft reserved its [...]

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The Netherlands, a country with just 16 million people, accounts for more than 3 million ccTLDs. That’s an impressive ratio of people to domains — one ccTLD per 5.3 people — and it the highest ratio of any country with more than five million residents. Germany comes in a close second, with a ratio of [...]

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