The Exceptional Work of John Yunker – Deglobalization & AI: The Calm Before the Storm

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As John Yunker says, "While reviewing websites for the 2025 Web Globalization Report Card I was struck by two things:

1. Deglobalization has had a visible (and negative) impact on global websites
2. AI is also having an impact, though you have to look closely to see it

Combined, I believe we are in the midst of the calm before the storm."

Read his entire provocative and insightful report here (don't miss it).

Thanks for your readership everyone.  With this post for April, we are more than 108,000 readers.  In March, we hit over 160K readers!

Mr. Potato Head Goes Global

©Laurel Delaney 2011.  All rights reserved.  Mr Potato Head.

To John Yunker ... I too am a fan of Mr. Potato Head (as shown).  Delighted to see he's going global in a serious and effective way.

So everyone knows what I am referring to, read:

Global by Design's The Mr. Potato Head Global Gateway

Twitter Takes On the World

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

Read it here.

Which Apps are Global?

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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

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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"

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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.

Weak Dollar Has Small Businesses Thinking Globally

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The New York Times now reports on how the weak dollar has small businesses thinking globally. If you make your products in the U.S.A., think exports.

A hat tip to friend and colleague John Yunker at the Global By Design blog for the nudge.

Up next: Another guest expert weighs in with her comments about the 'R' word tomorrow. Stay tuned.