Global English Style Guide
I met John Kohl of SAS again at the recent aQuatic conference in Berlin, and learnt about his new book “The Global English Style...
Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) in Ireland
You may have missed this. Dublin City University in Ireland has hosted the inaugural convention of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL). This...
Web Globalization Lessons for the EU: "Where's My Stuff?" and WEEE
The European Consumer Centres network, by way of the European Online Marketplace Report, tell us that non-delivery of goods, purchased over the internet,...
MS Funded L10n Project in Ireland: Crowd-sourcing Project Too
Just bringing your attention to this: Microsoft funded MSc Project at the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) in Limerick, Ireland.
Proposed research areas:
* Localisation file formats,...
Globalization: The Race to the Bottom
There’s a good debate on the views of western workers and globalization on the Financial Times Economists forum here that’s worth following.
If we’re going...
Another Blog of Interest: T&I Business
Check out Adam Wooten of Elanex’s T&I (Translation and Interpretation) Business blog.
Adam tells us it’s a blog “for the Business & Technology of Translation,...
Google releases MT and Lang Detection API
I see from the Google Official Blog that they’ve rolled out something called the “Google AJAX Language API - Tools for translation and language...
First Localization UnConference A Big Success
The first Localization UnConference was held in the Salesforce building in San Mateo, California on 14-March-2008. About three dozen attendees contributed to a wide...
Facebook now in German
The German translation of Facebook has been launched.
According to TechCrunch the translation involved 2,000 volunteer translators. The Spanish translation was launched last month, and...