Localization Issues for Social Networking Sites
This article MySpace Aims for Trickier Markets by the Wall Street Journal Online gives a good indication of the kind of issues faced when...
Google Model Volunteer Localization
Saw a fascinating presentation on Google Localization, presented by Google’s Dr. Thomas Arend at the Localisation Reseach Centre’s recent 12th Annual Internationalisation...
Ubuntu: The Gutsy Gibbon and Web 2.0 Localization
I received a very positive reaction from my Multilingual Takeway piece: “Web 2.0: The End of Organized Localization As We Know It?” It...
The Babelfish Tartuffe
Here’s something your won’t hear at the Translation Automation User Society: Molière’s classic French comedy “Tartuffe“ as translated into English by the Alta Vista’s...
The Worldwide Lexicon
I’m back in the Bay Area and I was talking with Brian McConnell of the Worldwide Lexicon (WWL) project in San Francisco today. For...
Social Translation and the Wisdom of Crowds
Could social translation represent a serious threat to Language Service Providers (LSPs) and other localization groups? I think it could, and will, and other...
Easier Indic input
HP Labs India recently launched a “gesture-based keyboard” (GKB), a new input method that will allow more people to use computers without typing. Current...
Language Technology in the News
A recent article in Newsweek gives us a overview of new language technology coming out. Each of the products listed is quite interesting—exciting, actually.
One...
Keyboard as programmable interface
Check out this coming-soon keyboard from the Russian developer Optimus. Presumably still in the design stage, it apparently enables users to actually program their...