Okay, so skype took a dive for a couple of days. That sucks…I even had to resort to using my good old (and very reliable) land line to call my pops in SA - and it cost me money man…like 9cents a minute.
Anyway, so what does this mean for Google Talk? Do you think this will migrate more people over to that service? I have never utilized the google talk feature but have always wondered how many people do. I would think that it offers some competition though skype definitely has the upper hand. These kind of crashes of a service can completely refigure a market. However my guess is we will all return to our normal skype ways and do what we normally do.
3 Comments » Posted on August 18th, 2007 by Saul Wainwright
In response to Saul’s recent post, “Conversational Marketing and Language Barriers” and the subsequent discussion on internet culture, one of our readers, Mark Foreman, of aconnector.com asked if we here at Abraham Harrison LLC, are “typical Americans that expect the whole world to speak English”, the kind that “repeat the words much louder when the locals don’t understand you”. As I thought about how best to answer Mr. Foreman, it coalesced in my mind how amazingly international, cosmopolitan, and multi-lingual Abraham Harrison is, and thus, why it is so natural for us to communicate sensitively and effectively regardless of what internet subculture we find ourselves in conversation with.
We are a company of 15 people stretching across 14 time zones, and living in five countries on four continents. We are of four nationalities and six ethnicities.
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4 Comments » Posted on August 18th, 2007 by Mark Harrison
Okay, I think this is gonna be a really simple blog. It is actually just a question that I am looking for some opinions on.
Can a conversational marketing campaign move across different language groups? How does one create a campaign that does so? And what are the potential limitations or pitfalls in such an effort?
I ask this question because I started thinking about the globe - how many people are online, where are they and what languages do they speak. As is well known the US does not have the highest internet penetration in the world. Countries like (I believe) Finland, Singapore and a few other Asian countries have extremely high internet penetration - yet these countries first languages are not English. Is this a potential problem and how do you get around it?
12 Comments » Posted on August 18th, 2007 by Saul Wainwright
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