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April 20, 2008

Cultural chasms

In case anyone doubts the UK and US are two nations divided by a common language, here's what my mum phoned me to ask today when booking online a hotel in Las Vegas.

"Marts, between the boxes for first name and last name there's a little box with 'M' and 'I' above. What does that mean?"

"Middle initial, mum."

"And then at the end, there's a box with 'Sr' and 'Jr'. As we're over 62, shouldn't we put 'Senior' in case there's a discount?"

Pause.

"No, mum."

Oh, and the telco angle? Shouldn't there be an API for the web site to collect this stuff from their ISP, with due permission etc.?

Anyhow, I wonder how many US websites find thousands of people come from the 'state or region' of Londonshire?

Posted by Martin Geddes at 6:13 PM
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