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Reminder: Web Globalization Webinar in one week

By On April 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Just a quick note to let you know that my Lionbridge Webinar will be held a week from today. Here’s the link to register. The call will also be recorded in case you can’t make it.

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Upcoming Web globalization Webinar

By On April 10, 2008 · Leave a Comment

I’m going to be presenting a series of Webinars on Web globalization.

The Webinars are sponsored by Lionbridge.

Mark your calendar for May 7th at 1 pm (EST), when I will present the first Webinar — The Best Global Web Sites (and why) — which focuses on key findings from The [...]

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Facebook and MySpace going multilingual: But XING is well ahead

By On March 3, 2008 · 2 Comments

Techcrunch reports that Facebook is a day away from launching a German-language interface, translated in part by 2,000 volunteers. Spanish was launched a few weeks ago. And French is also nearly here.

MySpace is also busy building localized Web sites.

I reviewed both Facebook and MySpace for the 2008 Web Globalization [...]

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SDL buys Idiom and begs the question: Will it exit the translation services game?

By On February 13, 2008 · 2 Comments

So SDL is buying Idiom.

SDL has posted an FAQ page about the deal here — but the list is absent a question I recently posed:

Does this acquisition mark the beginning of the end of SDL being a translation services provider?

I think it does. Or, at least, I think it should.

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