The nice thing about having your own web site (and perhaps a curse as well) is that you never tire of tinkering with it. So I decided yesterday to insert a few of the new Facebook social plugins into the …
I’m pleased to announce the publication of the 2010 Web Globalization Report Card. Here are the top 25 web sites overall: Google Facebook Cisco Systems Philips Samsung Wikipedia 3M NIVEA Symantec Lenovo Xbox Autodesk Gmail Microsoft Nokia Intel Caterpillar Panasonic …
Facebook, with support for more than 70 languages, promises to do very well in our 2010 Report Card. That said, a week ago Facebook began rolling out a new design that includes what I believe to be a global design …
With a few hours to spare, here are the most popular blog posts of 2009, based on number of visitors: The rise of “international” English — otherwise known as American English Of Kosovo and .ks Bing Beats Google in Insta-translation …
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 is in Spanish… And Chinese… And, my favorite, “pirate English”… …
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. Hundreds of millions of users. And 10 billion minutes spent …
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 volunteers aren’t the only people translating content, a year later, …
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: As a result of the worldwide success of Facebook’s translation …