Upcoming Web globalization Webinar
I’m going to be presenting a series of Webinars on Web globalization. The Webinars are sponsored by Lionbridge. Mark your calendar for May 7th at 1 pm (EST), when I …
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Facebook and MySpace going multilingual: But XING is well ahead
Techcrunch reports that Facebook is a day away from launching a German-language interface, translated in part by 2,000 volunteers. Spanish was launched a few weeks ago. And French is also …
SDL buys Idiom and begs the question: Will it exit the translation services game?
So SDL is buying Idiom. SDL has posted an FAQ page about the deal here — but the list is absent a question I recently posed: Does this acquisition mark …
Hillary Clinton leads the presidential translation race, says Lionbridge
Lionbridge evaluated the Spanish-language Web sites of the presidential candidates and found that Hillary Clinton offered the highest percentage of translated content for Hispanic voters. Lionbridge evaluated the sites of …
Language Weaver adds language pairs
Language Weaver has added five more language pairs to its repertoire: Arabic/Spanish Arabic/French French/Spanish Danish/English Greek/English What’s interesting here is that Language Weaver is moving beyond language pairs that include …
Machine translation gets specialized
To follow up on my last post about the transformation of the translation industry, I was just sent a press release from a maker of statistical machine translation, Language Weaver, …
The end of translation as we know it
The translation industry has undergone significant change over the past two years — and not just in terms of consolidation. The changes are structural. Offices are more decentralized, as is …
Jupiter jumps in to Web globalization research
One way to measure the size of an industry is by the number of analysts covering it. When I got started covering Web globalization back in 2000, to my knowledge …
The Hottest Translated Languages, According to SDL
SDL today released its “World Language League Table” which lists the languages that SDL has been most frequently translating. The company says it translates more than a billion words each …
Of Molecular, Ion Global, and the Mainstreaming of Web Globalization
I’ve been gone for two weeks so I nearly missed the announcement that Web consulting firm Molecular had acquired Ion Global. I was happy to see this as I really …
Pick a Country, Any Country
Translation agency American Translation Partners has developed a nifty language locator that allows you to select a country and find out which language or languages are spoken there along with …
Idiom Summit Highlights: Momentum and More Acronyms
Here are some thoughts from the past two days of the Idiom User Summit, in no particular order: – There was a lot of buzz around machine translation (MT). Both …
Idiom Summit: Twice as Big as 2006
I’m at the Idiom user conference, being held this week in the beautiful Hotel Del in San Diego. If you look at attendees as a barometer of idiom’s success, there …
Web Globalization and the Marketing Executive: A New Report
Byte Level Research and MarketingSherpa recently polled 2,000 executives on their Web globalization activities and plans. We asked what executives are spending on Web globalization, what languages their Web sites …
MotionPoint Benefits from Rush to Develop Localized Web Sites for US Hispanics
MotionPoint announced today that it was now hosting a Spanish-language pandemic flu Web site for the US Dept. of Health & Human Services. The site is located at http://espanol.pandemicflu.gov. I …