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E-Commerce Report: American Web Sites Speak the Language of Overseas Users Article about how many US Web sites are running in multiple languages, especially Chinese. I’ve read that somewhere around 2005 the proportion of Web users who speak some form of Chinese will pass 50% and never look back. Hey, maybe FI Space should run in Chinese too. June?

Adam is Director of Systems Marketing for the great Northwest Division. He’s going to be making posts here in FI Space. He’s also the reciptient of an FI Center Springboard grant called the Health Reminder Assistant. It’s a cool Net-based system to… Nah, just read all about the Health Reminder Assistant in Adam’s post.

The Health Reminder Assistant is close to pilot launch. The big question in my mind is, “will people play” will they go online and use the service? From a technology standpoint, the system rocks. An extremely complex back end using IVR, PHP, XML, and encrypted with 64 bit encryption. But really its the front end that brings folks back. So ...

Since it’s day one of a new year, I’m going use the occasion to explore some ideas about the future (otherwise known as Wild A** Guesses, WAGs). What attracts my attention is big general trends that have effects in the long run but of which there may be only quick glimpses on any given day. There’s a lot of noise ...