Blogging for Translators

If you’re interested in trying out this blogging lark for yourself, then check out this excellent resource on blogging for translators. Thanks to Riccardo...

MAUS

Yes folks, I’m launching MAUS - the Mobile Automation User Society. This is a research body with the mission of figuring out how mobile...

The World Cup Twanslator and the CNGL

For those of you interested in the World Cup (whatever that is), I draw your attention to Twanslator, an online system to allow football...

100% Matches

There is an interesting post on the IOTA Localisation Services blog called 100% Matches - Should You Review? (Translation: Should You Pay?). There are...

Meedan Aims High

There’s great excitement in the Twitterverse today about Meedan, a San Francisco-based operation that offers Web users English news articles translated into Arabic, and...

Facebook I18N: Way More Than A Token Gesture

Tokens (markers that are replaced at run-time by other text or values) in strings can be the bane of a translator’s life if used...

Facebook: Available in How Many Languages?

I’m sure we’re all very familiar with the vaunted Facebook crowdsourcing translation model by now. It’s been central to Facebook’s phenomenal international growth, and...

Technology Company in Silicon Valley Applies for a Patent

If you’d been following @localization on Twitter, you’d know it was announced days ago that Facebook has applied for a patent (in the U.S.)...

Translation Party

Bored? Try Translation Party. Yes, if you’ve nothing to do because Twitter and Facebook are broken again, then amuse yourself for hours this way. Translate...