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Comment on Web globalization in a post-PC world by Your Audience Speaks Different Languages and Needs You in Different Ways | Travel & Hospitality

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:36 +0000

[...] the time to read everything? So believe me when I say you should read John Yunker’s blog post, “Web Globalization in a Post-PC World,” in which he presents compelling facts and advice developed while publishing his “2012 Web [...]

Comment on Internationalized domain names (IDNs) by Domain Names For Sale

Domain Names For Sale — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:36:42 +0000

Thanks for the pictures. It helps to identify the country and the string.

Comment on The best global websites of 2012 by Social Aggregation Case Study: KPMG@Davos | Global by Design

Social Aggregation Case Study: KPMG@Davos | Global by Design — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:56:26 +0000

[...] globalizationRetail globalizationByte Level Books Post navigation ← Previous Social Aggregation Case Study: KPMG@Davos Posted on January 28, 2012 by John Yunker TweetIn my [...]

Comment on Russia’s Internet growth is just getting started by Everything Important for Going Global – Weekend Reader 01/2012 « Dig-IT! Consulting

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:15:13 +0000

[...] Russia becomes the third-ranked country in terms of country code registrations, behind Germany and the UK. But only 44% of the population has Internet access (52 million people). Read More… [...]

Comment on How to localize date formats using Globalize.js by John Yunker

John Yunker — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:34:49 +0000

Hi Ed. The eBook version is still in production. I’ll do a separate announcement when it’s available for the Kindle, iPad, etc. I’m sorry for the delay…

Comment on How to localize date formats using Globalize.js by Ed Spencer

Ed Spencer — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:50:17 +0000

I was looking to buy a digital version of your book but could only find the print version… am I just overlooking something?

Comment on Some companies have given up on Spanish for the US by Carla Briceno

Carla Briceno — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:00:25 +0000

You can add Sprint to your list too, John…Very disheartening, I agree, Joe.

Comment on Some companies have given up on Spanish for the US by John Yunker

John Yunker — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:05:27 +0000

Joe — Thanks for the comments! I’ll note Lowe’s in the post. I was most puzzled by Lowe’s simply because they have invested so heavily in Spanish-language signed in the stores I’ve visited. I’m glad to see they haven’t given up on the web — though a simple redirect might would have been nice.

Thanks again!

Comment on Some companies have given up on Spanish for the US by Joe Kutchera

Joe Kutchera — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:01:15 +0000

One correction to your post: Lowes has actually invested in a much deeper Spanish-language website and thus taken an opposite approach to The Home Depot’s abandoning Spanish for the web. Lowes just changed the URL to this one: http://es.lowes.com/ From an SEO/linking perspective, they should have re-directed the previous URL (the one you mention above in your post here) to the new one – http://es.lowes.com/ – to make it more findable.

Comment on Some companies have given up on Spanish for the US by Joe Kutchera

Joe Kutchera — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:44:54 +0000

John – Well-written, but disheartening, summary of Spanish-language websites for the U.S. It seems that international (non-US) traffic creates a lot of confusion for these marketers, even though international shoppers represent a whole new business opportunity for online retailers. Immigrants to the U.S. from Latin America (and everywhere else for that matter) will keep in touch with family members in their country of origin via social media. So the need for a Spanish-language website, as you say, will increase in importance and not go away.

Comment on Internationalized domain names (IDNs) by From Morocco to Malaysia, IDN growth continues - Global by Design

From Morocco to Malaysia, IDN growth continues - Global by Design — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:57:52 +0000

[...] Posted on November 9th, 2011 by John Yunker. John is author of The Art of the Global Gateway and The Web Globalization Report Card TweetICANN recently approved Malaysia’s Arabic IDN (internationalized domain name), bringing the number of countries or territories with approved IDNs to 29. Here is the full list. [...]

Comment on Internationalized domain names (IDNs) by Kazakhstan gets an IDN (and I get to update our IDN poster) - Global by Design

Kazakhstan gets an IDN (and I get to update our IDN poster) - Global by Design — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:03:45 +0000

[...] Kazakhstan has joined a fast-expanding group of countries and regions that now have IDNs (28 and counting). [...]

Comment on Creative Country Codes by Another day, another abused country code - Global by Design

Another day, another abused country code - Global by Design — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:57:32 +0000

[...] my current list of companies that have used ccTLDs in non-standard ways. I’ve so far documented the use of 28 [...]

Comment on (Insert company name here) stumbles in China by Jeroen

Jeroen — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:25:07 +0000

Is it the ridiculous expectations that some companies seem to have set with China?

I remember a consultant telling me about this story of a large organization that entered China and quickly became very disappointed with their employee turnover rate, which was much higher than in the U.S. Rather than looking at the market dynamics and how to realistically deal with it, the company quickly set their goals to match that of the U.S.

It’s the same in thinking that everything has to be measured by growth (of the company) or it has failed; while the Germans think that innovate by doing more with less is more sustainable.

Comment on What the heck is an IDN and why you should care by Clotho

Clotho — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:58:15 +0000

Hi John,

I posted your article to IDNForums.com :

http://www.idnforums.com/forums/29934-a-url-in-any-language.html#post185444

People thought it was well written.

Comment on Without web localization, you’re just guessing by Elena McCoy

Elena McCoy — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:44:44 +0000

So good and so true! Thanks for sharing.

Comment on South Sudan needs a country code by John Yunker

John Yunker — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:37:49 +0000

Lars — thanks for the update on “OD.” This will be interesting to watch develop.

Comment on South Sudan needs a country code by Lars

Lars — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:59:48 +0000

According to http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/whatsnew.html, the official new FIPS code for South Sudan is “OD”. But people are much more likely to understand and remember “ss” for the TLD. Personally, I don’t think the Nazi associations of .ss are that strong — SS stands for so many things. Maybe it depends on your age.

Comment on South Sudan needs a country code by Arnold

Arnold — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:34:10 +0000

SS should be approved too if SD was: they were similar bad, and are both as loaded for people who experienced them.

Comment on South Sudan needs a country code by Gunnar Bittersmann

Gunnar Bittersmann — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:20:53 +0000

Re-usage of ISO country codes has taken place in the past (CS first for Czechoslovakia, later for Serbia and Montenegro), but will not in the future (cf. http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/#bytheway). Re-usage of country TLDs is probably not a good idea either.

Comment on South Sudan needs a country code by jon

jon — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:10:41 +0000

As the CNN article you link to confirms, ‘South Sudan’ may turn out to only be a temporary name anyway.

‘Other suggested names have included Azania, Nile Republic, Kush Republic and Juwama.’

AZ, NR, NI and KR are all taken already, but they could certainly have JU or even AN, once the Netherlands Antilles splits into three.

It should be noted that .su, far from being a legacy space, is being actively promoted for new registrations – see: http://www.nic.ru/news/en/2011/11.07.regl-ch.html

Comment on South Sudan needs a country code by Jeroen

Jeroen — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:25:33 +0000

Could it be that we need to go for 3 digit country codes? Even there though South Sudan has a bit of an issue there with SOS.

Comment on South Sudan needs a country code by Anirvan

Anirvan — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:46:32 +0000

In an alternate universe, if acronyms like “DE” or “FR” had made Africans uneasy, would Europeans have been willing to give up their TLDs?

It’s unfortunate that South Sudan should possibly be refused the logical name of its choice because it makes some foreigners uneasy.

(And if this is really a problem, couldn’t the South Sudanese ban the hosting of European Nazi-linked sites under .ss namespace?)

Comment on Consistency vs. creativity: In signage, in terminology, in life by Barbara Inge Karsch

Barbara Inge Karsch — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:27:31 +0000

Good posting, John. I have seen many a terminology decisions go wrong because creativity was stalled. Creativity must be present. But it should come in early in the process. Once a name or term has been set, consistency is the name of the game. As you put it, the key is the right balance.

Comment on Going Global with JavaScript: Coming this Fall by Tom

Tom — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:48:59 +0000

Hi Gareth,

I might have misunderstood, but am quite confused by your comment. Grails is a server sided framework based on Java. Javascript is a client-side language, implemented by most browsers (although it is also implemented on the server side nowadays, eg. using Node.js).

Excellent subject this book is about, exactly my field of interest.