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Navigating the multilingual web: The Art of the Global Gateway

By On September 9, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In 1999, I first used the term “global gateway.”

At the time, I was referring to a company’s “select language” pull-down menu.

Needless to say, the term stuck. But it has also evolved. Today, a global gateway is so much more than a pull-down menu. It is an umbrella term for the visual and [...]

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Facebook’s global gaffe

By On February 18, 2010 · 2 Comments

Facebook, with support for more than 70 languages, promises to do very well in our 2010 Report Card.

That said, a week ago Facebook began rolling out a new design that includes what I believe to be a global design flaw — one that I hope is reversed in the months ahead.

Now, if [...]

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Taking a Facebreak

By On December 21, 2009 · 1 Comment

As Katie Hafner writes in the NY Times, a number of people are taking a break from Facebook (or trying to).

Call it a Facebreak.

Facebook is all about scale.

Hundreds of millions of users.

And 10 billion minutes spent on Facebook each day.

But for us Facebook users, time does not scale.

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Facebook: From 1 to 100 languages in two years

By On March 17, 2009 · 1 Comment

It was just over a year ago that Facebook started localizing itself for the world.

As I noted then, the company utilized crowdsourcing to spur its translation efforts. And though volunteers aren’t the only people translating content, a year later, Facebook has done an impressive job of going global.

Om Malik recently reported [...]

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