Posts Tagged with ‘localization’

Google Takes Pride in Not Paying Translators

Svetlana Gladkova

Sometimes Google simply puzzles me. It is a multi-billion dollar company, right? It has all the resources to venture into absolutely any new field - by either investing in internal development or buying all the companies it thinks could complement its other products or even launching a venture fund of their own if they so choose.
And now I look at the latest post on the Official Google Blog and one thing comes to my mind: Google actually takes [...]

How Much Should You Rely on Your Users to Do Your Job?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

Read any advice about bootstrapping your start-up company and odds are you'll find a tip about using your loyal user base to contribute services to your company. It sounds like a great idea in theory: you have all these people who love what you are doing and want to help. Your users may be willing to code for you or design for you or help localize your app by translating all your pages into languages they speak. The question left [...]

Pushing Web 2.0 Toward It’s Semantic Future: Local Services YouGetIt and Meetro

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

As Web 2.0 moves more into the Semantic Web, the need to sort and interpret the constant flow of content becomes more and more critical. Social networks seem to grow exponentially every single day, and trying to meet up with people for business or pleasure becomes more difficult when you are searching for people you could realistically meet up with. Enter two new content aggregators who attempt to help you with exactly that task.
YouGetIt is one of these [...]