Global by Design

Byte Level Research and MarketingSherpa recently polled 2,000 executives on their Web globalization activities and plans.
We asked what executives are spending on Web globalization, what languages their Web sites support — what languages they planned to add. We asked about Spanish localization for the US market. We measured executive awareness of Web localization vendors.
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MotionPoint announced today that it was now hosting a Spanish-language pandemic flu Web site for the US Dept. of Health & Human Services.
The site is located at http://espanol.pandemicflu.gov.
I first profiled MotionPoint in December of 2005. The company is part translation agency, part content management tools provider. MotionPoint effectively hosts the Spanish-language site on its servers [...]

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Lionbridge issued a press release today that says the company’s new translation management platform, Freeway/Logoport, was the fastest-growing translation management tool in 2006. Freeway is the Web-based front-end of the application and Logoport is the translation memory engine (I’m still not quite sure why there are two names used). For the reason behind the two [...]

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Global content management software vendor Tridion announced a large client win today: Sodexho. According to the press release, “Sodexho Alliance, the leading global provider of Food and Facilities Management services, has selected the Tridion Web Content Management Suite to be the driving force behind the launch of its estimated 50 new global websites as part [...]

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Idiom, a maker of globalization content management software, issued a bullish press release today stating that the company tripled the number of enterprise clients from 2005 to 2006. New clients include Cisco, Beckman-Coulter, Gambro, AOL, Business Objects, Novell, and Quixtar.
The company also announced new partner additions in 2006: SunFlare, PTC, XMetaL, and Cross [...]

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Last week, I posted the article that I wrote about Language Weaver and their statistical machine translation software. While I was at the Language Weaver offices, I also had time to record a 10-minute interview with CEO Bryce Benjamin.
I’ve posted the first few minutes of the interview. Click on the image below to view it [...]

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It’s Webinar season again and my inbox is full. Here are three that look promising:
Affordable XML Content Management: SaaS Success Stories
Presented by DocZone
Tuesday, January 16th
registration
An Itty Bitta DITA: Understanding the Basics
Presented by Vasont Systems
Thursday, January 25
registration
Effective Content Globalization: Bridging the Divide
Presented by XMetal and Idiom
Wednesday, January 31st
Sponsored by registration

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While J.K. Rowling may have the most global of author Web sites, you don’t have to be a billionaire author to develop one these days.
Here’s an excerpt from theMiami Herald on one author’s adventures in Web globalization:
Publicity departments are too small and stretched too thin,” author Joseph Finder (High Crimes, Company Man, Paranoia) said in [...]

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Lionbridge announced Q3 numbers of $108 million, which is bringing the company in line with a $420 million fiscal year. This is about what I expected, but investors expected more apparently, as the stock is down 10% so far today, dropping below $6/share.
CEO Rory Cowan remains bullish: “We have secured large scale engagements with both [...]

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Tridion is a Web CMS software company that has carved out a lucrative — and growing — niche of supporting global/local content management. That is, the software allows local offices to easily create and blend local and global content while working within global design templates and business rules. It’s not the only software that does [...]

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