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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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June 21, 2006

MySpace China, Germany, and France This Summer?

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Posted by John Yunker

According to TechCrunch, MySpace could launch a half-dozen non-English Web sites as early as this summer. Says the blog, "MySpace co-founder and chief executive Chris DeWolfe was quoted by the Financial Times yesterday and said that the first localized, non-English versions of MySpace will be available this summer. The company has designated 11 countries to target, naming specifically only France, German, China and India."

Here's the current MySpace global gateway:
myspace_gateway_jun06.jpg
It will be interesting to see how MySpace's gateway evolves to handle the additional sites.

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