Global by Design

So after a slow start upgrading to the iPhone 2.0 OS on Friday, I’ve since had a chance to review a number of the apps and have been very impressed so far (though a few did cause the iPhone to crash). As I reviewed the Apps in the iTunes store I began to notice that [...]

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I tried to login to Google Adwords recently and was met with the following “temporarily unavailable” Web page: The page illustrates one of the many the challenges of managing a Web site that supports so many languages. Even something supposedly as simple as this temporary page is not quite so simple. There are a whopping [...]

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My second Lionbridge Webinar is scheduled for June 3rd at 1 pm EST and you can register for it here. The topic is global navigation — why it’s so important and how to improve upon it. I wrote an ebook about this topic two years ago. Since then, geolocation and language negotiation have become more [...]

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There are tons of articles about Google vs. Baidu, but few of these articles take an in-depth look at how Google compares to Baidu from a Chinese user’s perspective. In this article, I do just that, and I render a verdict as to which Web site is better. Search The best way to compare search [...]

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If you’ve read this blog recently, you are aware of John’s reports on Facebook’s efforts to translate its Website into German and other European languages. I am a keen observer of the “kraut-sourcing” efforts. However, in Germany Facebook faces an entrenched competitor: “StudiVZ”. StudiVZ is a social networking platform, very similar to Facebook. In contrast [...]

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