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This must be a world record for Facebook users

According to Elvar Arason researcher and a senior consultat at ABSmedia Iceland nearly all Icelanders aged 20 to 29 are registered on Facebook. This social media website is a huge success in the country to say the least. Nearly half of the nation is registered or just under 120.000 people

Over 90% of the Icelandic nation uses the Internet

Statistics Iceland has published the results of its seventh survey on the use of ICT and the Internet by Icelandic households and individuals. The survey was conducted earlier this year and shows how the vast majority of Icelandic households have one or more computers and access to the Internet. In

Google has added 10 new languages

Google has added ten new languages to its translation service bringing the total to 23, Google also added a “detect language” option for those that need. The languages are Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian and Swedish. This feature allows Google to automatically detect the language of

Inflected languages and Google

Google starting to deal in a proper way with inflected languages such as Icelandic by stripping away the grammar. Icelandic users have had to put up with the search engine’s illiteracy by entering their searches in various cases, numbers, genders, tenses and then do it all over again with the

Google misses out on translations

The world’s largest search engine misses out on localization, how? Spelling error, I’m I feeling lucky button was changed to “Freysta gæfunnar”, the problem is that there is no y in freysta so the search engine that has 50% of the Icelandic population searching is greeting the Icelandic nation with

Internet marketing and advertising conference in Iceland

The annual Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference and Expo (RIMC) will be taking place on Friday 8th February at the Hilton Nordica in Reykjavik, Iceland. The conference focuses on Internet marketing and advertising, and the possibilities created by employing a structured promotional approach and focused advertising campaigns. Speakers include international and

bott.is domain number 20,000 in Iceland

On the 29th of November this year active domain number 20,000 became real in Iceland. The twist to this is that the 29th of November 2007 is very close to the 20 year birthday of the Internet in Iceland. The year was 1987, late fall, when the father of the

Please dial 7 to retrieve your auto from the garbage

The headline is taken from a slide where Andy Atkins Kruger of WebCertain demonstrates the importance of having local people translating. I moderated a session at SMX Stockholm last week called “Global Search Marketing Tactics” where I had Andy, Sara Anderson of Global strategies, Hannah Evershed from Isobar and Joost

The sleeper awakes… slowly

It might not be a surprice but India is booming, the country might only be a sub-continent, but it is a mega-country to be in regards of internet usage, but the rise is slower than expected. According to a recent “India Online Overview report” done by eMarketer India has “only”

Google does the Moon but it cannot do Iceland

Google moon just got updated and now boost great features such as higher-resolution map imagery, text search, photos and stories from all the Apollo landings. This is great, but if they can do the moon they must be able to do Iceland properly? For good maps of my beautiful home