As I prepare to hop on a plane to Europe, I’d like to focus briefly on the airline industry.
I should preface this post by saying that I find “meta” travel sites like Kayak and Sidestep much easier to use than any airline web site. A few years of recession coupled with the [...]
I spent a few days in Canada recently and was struck but how many billboards, newspapers, and web sites prominently displayed .ca instead of .com.
I started writing down every localized domain I encountered and here’s what I ended up with after the first day:
Buick.ca Doritos.ca Eggs.ca [...]
We included nine hotel and resort brands in the 2010 Web Globalization Report Card.
The Web Globalization Report Card is an annual benchmark of how effectively companies internationalize and localize their web sites and applications for the world. It is now in its sixth edition.
Of the nine hotel/resort companies studied, the InterContinental Hotels [...]
Just what the world needs — two more URL shorteners.
Google now has goo.gl.
And Facebook has FB.me.
But Google’s URL jumps out at me because it marks the first instance of Greenland (.gl) being used as a “countryless country code”
That is, the ccTLD is not being used to signify location, but [...]
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