Forgetting English (literally)
I’m working on the Web Globalization Report Card, and this, plus my fascination with Facebook, inspired me to check out my Forgetting English page in several different languages. Here it …
Taking a Facebreak
As Katie Hafner writes in the NY Times, a number of people are taking a break from Facebook (or trying to). Call it a Facebreak. Facebook is all about scale. …
Facebook: From 1 to 100 languages in two years
It was just over a year ago that Facebook started localizing itself for the world. As I noted then, the company utilized crowdsourcing to spur its translation efforts. And though …
Will Facebook become the world’s largest translation platform?
Techcrunch reports from Facebook’s developer conference today in which company announced that it would open its “crowdsourcing” translation platform to its legion of application developers. Here’s the press release excerpt: …