Web Globalization Resources

What's New

• IKEA: Behind the Best Global Retail Site
• Statistical Machine Translation Gets Real: A Profile of Language Weaver
• 7 Habits of Highly Successful Global Web Sites
• An interesting map of the world's population
• Press Release: English-Speaking Web Users a Minority on the Internet
• The Web Globalization Opportunity (and threat)
  Presented at the Association for Language Companies conference on June 18, 2005.
• ¿Habla Español? A directory of Spanish-language Web sites for US Hispanics.
• Unicode on the Web Major Web sites now using Unicode.
• Translating Harry Potter - Part II: The Business of Magic

Books

Articles & Interviews

• Translating Harry Potter - Part I: The Language of Magic
• Translating Harry Potter - Part II: The Business of Magic
• Taking Video Games Global: An Interview with Heather Chandler, author of The Game Localization Handbook
• The Global Gateway: More Than a Pretty Face
• The Long, Winding Road to Multilingual Domain Names
• Keeping Your Global Gateway From Getting in the Way
• E-commerce Across Borders: How to take a Web site global (150K)
• Does Your Web Site Speak Spanish?
• Domain Names for All Nations (188K)

Publications & Blogs

• Global By Design: Web Globalization News & Analysis: Check out the only newsletter devoted to the art and science of Web globalization: Global By Design.
• Sample Chapter: Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies
• Multilingual Computing
• Client Side News
• Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) Blog
  GALAxy, a free e-newsletter for the language services community

Glossary

Organizations

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• The Unicode Consortium
• Society for Technical Communication
• Association for Computing Machinery
• American Translators Association (ATA)
• Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA)
• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
• International Webmasters Association

Miscellaneous

• Babel Fish The world's leading machine translation engine
• Global Brands
• Language names in their native scripts
• http://www.allm-geodata.com