Google’s revenue engine, Google Adwords, is available in more than 40 languages, so it’s not surprising to see Google’s international revenues growing so quickly. But this rate of growth is actually gaining momentum.
According to Google’s Q3 earnings release last week, “Revenues from outside of the United States contributed 44% of total revenues in [...]
Below are pictures from the world’s largest Magellanic penguin colony, located at Punta Tombo, Argentina.
They were taken during a one-week volunteer trip in 2006. And hardly a week goes by that I don’t think about it. The trip inspired this short story.
Midge and I took part in a [...]
Nike has launched a new Web site design and, with it, a splash global gateway…
I don’t have time tonight to dig more deeply (I’m packing for an extended trip). When I return, I will spend some time on the site. Nike has for several years scored poorly in our annual Web Globalization [...]
The Rockley Bulletin features a great article on the importance of using controlled vocabularies, particularly for documentation. The article cites a customer support call in which the word “jack” is cause for confusion on both ends of the line.
The challenge of controlling your company’s vocabulary is in first deciding who actually controls this [...]
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