Global by Design

In 2005, I interviewed a man named Winter, who was on a quest to visit ever Starbucks location on this planet.
Four years later, the quest continues.
Unfortunately, as documented by the Wall Street Journal, Starbucks is now closing stores faster than Winter can visit them.
In 2005, Winter had visited 4,500 Starbucks stores. Today, his count stands [...]

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ICANN recently launched its own Twitter feed. And since ICANN is a global organization, it launched more than one language feed — one in English and one in Spanish.
http://twitter.com/icann_en
http://twitter.com/icann_es
This is not the most scalable solution. And I’m not trying to pick on Twitter; the issue effects any multinational company or organization.
For instance, let’s say ICANN [...]

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It was nice to wake up this morning and see this article in the New York Times about the emergence of machine translation and volunteer translation (aka crowdsourcing). These are two very important developments that every companies needs to be aware of — and possibly champion.
That said, I do wonder how this article is going [...]

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According to my search on “web globalization” in Google Timeline:

I’m not sure I agree with this graph, but those were some heady days back in 2000.
From my humble perch, I’d say web globalization is alive and well. Perhaps searches are going down because more and more people already know what it is — at least [...]

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Curious to know how many big companies have embraced blogging?
81 of the Fortune 500
This is less than I would have guessed. As a comparison, roughly twice as many companies on the Inc. 500 list have blogs — and I would say this is because smaller companies have fewer lawyers to advise against hosting blogs. Or, [...]

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