Twitter Takes On the World

Great post over at Global by Design on how companies are going global with Twitter.

Read it here.

Illustration: Posted at Global by Design but the source is Twitter.com

Which Apps are Global?

We've been a long time fan of John Yunker over at Global by Design and last week did a blog post about which apps are "international ready." Here's a snapshot of his tally thus far:

• PayPal Mobile: 15 languages
• Google Mobile: 15 languages (shown above)
• Facebook Mobile: 7 languages
• Monopoly: 6 languages

Read more here. Interesting. What's your take on it? Is he missing anything? Be sure check out his Web Globalization Report Card 2010 -- worth a look.

Don't Pretend You Speak Languages You Don't

That's a quote from John Yunker, Global By Design and it's one of his three rules of global gateway design. Good stuff.

Bing vs. Google on "I Love You"

John Yunker at Global by Design elaborates on the difference between using Bing (owned by Microsoft) versus Google on a simple search string translation of the words: "I love you."

Read more here.

Why not just go straight to: Bing translator?
Or how about Google translator?

Full disclosure: I'm a HUGE Google fan (no affiliation whatsoever). John is a Microsoft program manager and co-founder of Byte Level Research.