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When will the “age gateway” retire?

By John Yunker On December 19, 2009 · 1 Comment

The “age gateway” was a topic I wrote about a year ago and I’m glad to see others chime in on the sheer futility and stupidity of the device.

I mean, really, does this little gateway [...]

By John Yunker On December 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

It’s not every day I come across a survey localized into 18 languages.

But I guess I should expect nothing less from one of the world’s largest translation agencies.

Lionbridge wants to know what social media you use.

If you enter your email address, you’ll get the results.

Here’s the link.

PS: I just [...]

By John Yunker On December 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

For a Westerner like myself, the most-popular Korean portals Naver and Daum are a maze of text and images. The pages are too busy, too distracting.

But I’m not the intended user.

Google Korea, as I mentioned in 2007, has big aspirations in Korea. So much so that it tried relaxing its austere [...]

By John Yunker On December 8, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Nominet, the UK registrar, published the results of a poll that found:

More than three-quarters (77%) of British consumers prefer to use a .uk rather than a .com when searching for information on the Internet.

Clearly, you have to hold these numbers at arm’s length. But I would agree in general that people have [...]