April 2011
5 posts
25% of Americans doubt Obama was born in US. I am 100% sure of their stupidity http://bit.ly/geuUus
Webinar: Calypso Technology simplifies their translation process with Cloudwords - April 27th 11am PDT http://bit.ly/hC9h4E
thanks to @Apple shady privacy, now you can check where you’ve been in the last year… http://bit.ly/fD36Lp #privacy #notasurprise
adapting a website for asian mkts http://www.instantshift.com/2011/04/15/adapting-a-website-for-the-asian-market/ #design #I18N #L10N
RT @1lucas: Benioff Backed Cloudwords Helps Manage Mass Translations http://tcrn.ch/tcrnchcwds via @techcrunch #cloudwords #l10n #t9n
July 2010
4 posts
Reporting the Obvious: Hispanic Web Users More... →
Although it is obvious for anyone who a) knows what “Caucasian” Americans like in terms of sports (hint: soccer is not on the list), and b) what “Hispanics” (and, to that matter, almost anyone…
Reporting the Obvious: Hispanic Web Users More Likely to Visit World Cup Content http://bit.ly/bKPSTd
Global Clean Energy Report: China Surpassed U.S.... →
The United Nations Environment Program and the Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century today reveal in a pair of new reports that despite an overall financial downturn in 2009, global…
Global Clean Energy Report: China Surpassed U.S. as Top Sector Investor in 2009 http://bit.ly/doxzrZ
April 2010
1 post
Twitter (Continues) Growing Around the World: More... →
Twitter continues its global growth, being used by individuals and by mainstream media companies around the world. Anyone can now learn in real time about earthquakes, music concerts, traffic jams…
January 2010
1 post
The World Is Flat For Twitter: User Growth Slowing... →
After growing exponentially from 10 to 20 million users in a couple of months, and doubling again to 40 million in just three months, it’s got almost six months for Twitter to reach 60 millions…
December 2009
12 posts
Facebook Growth In Europe: Slower In November, But... →
Even with a slowdown in their user growth, Facebook is still taking on Europe as a storm. The slowdown could be explained by multiple reasons, from the lack of good statistics to the maturity of the…
Che c'è di nuovo?: Twitter Adds Italian →
Very cool move by the Twitter team, and I wonder why Italian was the language chosen — probably it was ready before German, or Chinese (my guesses for future updates/languages) thanks to the…
Globalization: New Approaches to New Markets Or... →
This is a good interview with C.K. Prahalad, author of a book on new approaches to Globalization and the relevance of the bottom of the demographic pyramid. Nevertheless, when I read about…
Global Technology Pioneers 2010 →
Interesting list of tech companies to follow during the next years - Google was the one of the Tech Pioneers in 2001, and it became what everyone knows. It is also worth noting how Clean and…
The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of... →
As happened with Greek, Latin and even French in the past, English is today the ‘lingua franca’, the language in which the world communicates to make business and, thanks to the Internet, even to…
The 2009 India Competitiveness Review →
Much remains to be done in India. Policy-makers need to focus on significantly reducing poverty and improving living standards. One of the key challenges is to provide quality employment to the…
Stop Climate Change: The Copenhagen Summit Starts... →
The Copenhagen Summit started today. It is a too important date to ignore it in this blog, since Globalization, Internet, Entrepreneurship… everything would loose its meaning if nothing changes…
Mapping Globalization: Understanding The... →
I love maps, and with all the talk of globalization it is easy to forget that at the very core of the concept is a notion of geographical location. Globalization involves connections between at…
Mobile Boom: More Than One Billion Mobile Web... →
The boom in mobile web usage is probably also shaping the way users interact with web services in general - raising the expectations of a more simple and faster experience, while not loosing…
China Online Game Revenues To Triple By 2012 →
There might be an opportunity for foreign online games companies, but China’s Government regulation, limits to foreign investment and lack of localization could pose a barrier. First companies…
In Japan, an Odd Perch for Google - Looking Up at... →
It seems like Yahoo! has been doing something right in Japan — they have been the leading site there for more than eight years, and Google can’t find the way to change it. Together with the fact…
In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World →
A report published in June 2009 shows the exponential growth of Twitter in the US and around the world, and that even before they released the translated Spanish and French versions. The report…
November 2009
90 posts
Army of humanoid robots takes Tokyo by storm →
Latest models can flip pancakes or weld, and the industry is worth almost USD 6 billion to Japan. via www.guardian.co.uk Other new-generation robots demonstrated levels of dexterity and subtlety…
Globalization 3.0: Individuals Making the World... →
A great (and long, as usual in their articles) piece by Thomas L. Friedman published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Although published originally in 2005, Friedman’s ideas accurately…
Why Big Media's Anti-Google Counter-Revolution... →
A good analysis, with great reasons, of why Fox’s attempts to stop people from getting their contents through Google search will fail. As has been the case before, big US media strategies on the…
Global Entrepreneurship: Driving Recovery, Seizing... →
The Global Entrepreneurship Week took place in London from November 16 to 22, 2009. The video below shows Carl Schramm, CEO of the Kauffman Foundation with a talk entitled “Driving a Global Movement…
Globalization Trends In 2009 - The Effects Of The... →
Findings of this report raise some interesting questions. Could it be that the global financial crisis really provoked this change of focus? Was the flip in attention an indication that managers had…
Emirates Ranks Highest in International Airline... →
The fact that there are no American (USA) airlines in the top 10 list of best localized websites should not be a surprise. “Foreign” airlines feel the need to localize their websites. This is just…
Funny (And Tragic) Global Marketing &... →
This kind of lists is always a good laugh, and an important reminder of how fundamental it is to count with local teams (or experts in local language and culture, at least) when designing Global…
Harvest Celebration: Thanksgiving Around The World →
As most social celebrations (including Christmas), the origins of Thanksgiving can be traced all the way back to Ancient Pagan festivities. In this case, the relation with the celebration of a good…
Harvest Celebration: Thanksgiving Around The World http://bit.ly/7WIg6W #thanksgiving
Western Games In Japan: The Importance Of... →
Great interview with an expert on the localization and marketing of Western games in Japan. Very interesting insights about the importance of localization, of having into account the differences in…
Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Probably Not The... →
So it seems that Twitter’s growth is slowing down in the US and around the World, while blogging platforms are going strong. The guys at TechCrunch only mention WordPress in their article, leaving…
Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Probably Not The Winner You Are Thinking About http://bit.ly/53q42l
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What's Your Strategy for the Next Decade? →
The end of a Decade, as the end of a Century or a Millennium, always triggers the imagination of people, and some “reviewers” feel compelled to analyze and group certain facts by “Eras”. Are we…
Apple Localization Process: They Make It Look... →
Knowing how hard it is to localize applications, it’s refreshing to see that the team at Apple seems to have gotten the process right. Their Developer pages have great information about the…
Apple Localization Process: They Make It Look Simple http://bit.ly/7Y0nhS
Facebook Growth Increases in Latin America.... →
Although Google’s Orkut still dominates the social networking scene in Brazil, Facebook is rapidly gaining ground, and will probably become the number one social network there during 2010. via…
Facebook Growth Increases in Latin America. Argentina Now Largest Country http://bit.ly/08z8TG4
Mass-Localised / Post-Globalised http://bit.ly/8BjZaQ
Indian IT Firms Embedded in Silicon Valley’s Global Business Strategy http://bit.ly/6Pr05v
Mass-Localised / Post-Globalised →
As the author says, the future is unevenly distributed. via www.janchipchase.com When you look at the photos below it’s easy to focus on the age of the technology, but the practice of producing…
Indian IT Firms Embedded in Silicon Valley's... →
While these are good news in general for India, the majority of the US Companies’ IT and other investments in that country are focused on the benefits of lower salaries. One example is Levi’s,…
A Truly Global Blog: Thanks To Readers in 150... →
It’s been less than four weeks since I started this blog - and it’s been a great ride, exciting, fun and full of lessons. This post is to thank all of the readers, and to share some data (from Google…
A Truly Global Blog: Thanks To Readers in 150 Cities Around The World http://bit.ly/4Em7d2
European startups need to work as hard as the... →
In this controversial anonymous post, the Author praises the “Silicon Valley” way of doing business and creating startup companies. I am not going to get into the controversy, but I think the author…
European startups need to work as hard as the Silicon Valley ones – or forget it http://bit.ly/7GWHLU
Brizzly: Twitter Client Adds Instant Translation... →
By using Google Translate’s machine translations to provide this feature, Brizzly is making sure Twitter users will have a lot of fun and some good laughs (or trouble)… via news.cnet.com Web-based…