Monday, July 28, 2008

Adding the "World" in worldwide web

It is clichéd by now to say that as soon as your company is on the web, it is global. But that is not so as witnessed by the experiences of some major web companies.

The globalization paradox that I love talking about is that in order to be global, you really need to be intensely local. Big web companies are realizing this are starting to localize their offering and event their trademarked look and feel.

Here's a great money quote:
"Creating a national company is like rocket science," said John Strand of Strand Consulting in Denmark. "But creating an international company is like proton physics."



An un-American feel aids expanding US Web firms - Yahoo! News

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