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eBay Launches Kijiji, Challenging Craigslist

By On March 8, 2005 · Leave a Comment

eBay has launched of an international classified ads Web site called Kijiji, which the company says means “village” in Swahili.

Kijiji is available for 50 cities in Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Oddly, Kijiji doesn’t support any cities in which Swahili is widely spoken; perhaps those Web sites are on the [...]

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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Compete With ‘Em

By On March 8, 2005 · Leave a Comment

The Journal writes about Hollywood’s strategy to (finally) begin discounting DVDs in China in an effort to be more competitive with the pirated DVDs.

The discounted DVDs will still cost roughly three times what the pirated versions cost, but at least we’re in the same general ballpark. I suspect a growing number of newly [...]

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Getting to Know Global IA

By On March 6, 2005 · 1 Comment

I’m at the IA Summit in Montreal and have been pleased to find that IA (information architecture) professionals are tackling the challenges of content globalization in a big way. And this is a great thing, because the IA industry is critical to the evolution of truly successful global Web sites.

I’m not much of [...]

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Web Localization Into English

By On March 2, 2005 · Leave a Comment

Because I spend the bulk of my time talking to US executives about expanding globally, my focus is typically on creating non-English Web sites. But Web globalization cuts both ways. If you’re a Russian company, for example, you’ll need an English-language Web site if you want to expand in the US. Most companies do this [...]

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