Localization

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• How to Connect Globally With Social Media

  
  Social Media Examiner — Authority: 566
  Do you know how to use social media to target a global audience?  After all, social media provides a low-cost solution to engage your prospects, customers and partners located in different regions of the world. As Scott Monty , head of social media for Ford Motor Company, says, “ U.S. brands looking to leverage ...
  2 days ago

• Add-on locale usage statistics available

  
  Mozilla Add-ons Blog — Authority: 119
  When the AMO Statistics Dashboard was first released , it contained views for all of the data available from add-on update pings at the time. With the release of Firefox 3 in mid-2008, however, a locale parameter was added to indicate the user’s browser locale. We recently added support for this to our stats ...
  3 days ago

• Context,subtext and inter-text

  
  Random thoughts and serendipity — Authority: 408
  There are two points with which I’d like to begin: One, in their Credits to Contributors section, Mozilla (for both Firefox and Thunderbird) state that “ We would like to thank our contributors, whose efforts make this software what it is. These people have helped by writing code and documentation, and by ...
  5 days ago

• MacUpdate Desktop version 5.0.2 released, win a membership from TUAW

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 161
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  6 days ago

• Specialized Translation Agencies

  
  Translation Blog — Authority: 120
  Years ago we used to see that translation agencies in various countries of the world would only work with a few language pairs, three or four at most. They worked with only one translation program and its staff was made up of only local translators . Today the need to satisfy clients and the clients’ ...
  6 days ago

• The 100 Mile Eco Thanksgiving Challenge

  
  The GenGreen Blog — Authority: 104
  Thanks to Modern Eco Homes, where this blog entry by Katie Nielsen originally came from , and they reached out to us, wanting to share their findings and learn from yours. Enjoy, and please share your eco holiday finds below in the comments In 1621, the pilgrims at Plymouth celebrated the ending of a successful ...
  1 week ago

• Re-Localization

  
  Shlok Vaidya's Thinking — Authority: 128
  John Michael Greer puts together the historical argument for sustainable local economies. In particular, the role of guilds (regulated the talent stream to maintain somewhat of a free market): Thus in a restricted market where specialization is limited, a free market in which prices are set by supply and demand, ...
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• A New Translation Platform

  
  WordPress.com News — Authority: 617
  The full translation of WordPress.com is an ongoing process, of which you are a great part and whom we thank for the patience and assistance. Thanks to you, WordPress.com is now available in 60+ languages (and, yes, before you ask, esperanto , too). As you know, any text that shows up on your dashboard, widgets or ...
  1 week ago

• Eat, Drink, and Be Wary! Meeting Nov. 19

  
  Surviving the Middle Class Crash — Authority: 118
  Who’s growing our food?  What’s in it? Why it isn’t safe!  These are the issues that will be discussed at the following place and time:Venice Center for Peace and Justice (at the Venice United Methodist Church) 2210 Lincoln Blvd, Venice, CA 90291 (1 blk. north of Venice Blvd) Thursday, November 19 7 [...]
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• IXIASOFT Announces Partnership with XML-INTL

  
  Information Technology News — Authority: 134
  IXIASOFT has announced a strategic technology partnership with XML-INTL. By integrating the IXIASOFT DITA CMS with the XML-INTL XTM Suite, IXIASOFT customers should benefit from a fully integrated translation management suite which should further enhance their control over the localization process. The DITA CMS is a ...
  1 week ago

• Updating the knowledge base for Firefox 3.6 – The Plan

  
  SUMO Blog — Authority: 118
  Over the past month, the SUMO community has gathered a list of changes in Firefox 3.6 and determined which knowledge base articles need to be updated . We have been in contact with localizers and KB contributors to establish the update plan, and here it is: The English update – this week All updates to English ...
  1 week ago

• PHP in Arabic: An interview with Khaled Al-Shamaa

  
  Tiffany B. Brown — Authority: 430
  PHP Classes interviews Khaled Al-Shamaa about his AR-PHP project, a series of PHP classes designed to handle Arabic-language web applications. Because Arabic uses a non-Latin character set, it presents a new set of challenges. PC: Developing Web applications in Arabic requires special care. What are the most ...
  1 week ago

• Astoria Software and Translations.com Announce Translation-Enabled Content Management Initiative

  
  Information Technology News — Authority: 134
  Astoria Software and Translations.com have aligned in order to create a single solution for managing and localizing XML content. This joint development initiative, Translation-Enabled Content Management, represents the service-level integration of Astoria On-Demand and Translations.com’s GlobalLink Localization ...
  1 week ago

• The basis of search engine optimization

  
  Working From Home Blogging — Authority: 128
  Search engine optimization SEO is broken down into 2 specific areas – On page and off page. On page optimisation involves optimising the pages of your website for relevant keyphrases, in order to improve to improve their positions in the search engine results Write the original page name and description of each ...
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• 3D Dot Game Heroes Secures an American Publisher

  
  PlayStation LifeStyle — Authority: 630
  On its way to the Americas! 3D Dot Game Heroes is a quirky title that for the time being is only available in Japan . Sure, you could buy the Japanese version and play it on your North American console, but good luck deciphering that Japanese text! Or you could just wait a little bit longer, since the game now ...
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• Tapping Emerging Markets Through Effective Localization and Translation

  
  marketing . web . design — Authority: 127
  The internet has revolutionized the scope of both advertising and expanding a business. Understanding the nature of a market becomes simpler, making targeting it through advertising a more reliable and successful practice. Online marketing, in terms of expenditure, overtook television advertising in the UK in 2009. ...
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• 3D Dot Game Heroes announced for US

  
  SCRAWL — Authority: 681
  Atlus USA has announced today that they’ll be localizing Japan’s recently released pixelated PS3 action-RPG, 3D Dot Game Heroes . “The 8- and 16-bit classics many gamers cut their teeth on are magical, down to their blocky sprites and elegantly simple gameplay,” mused Aram Jabbari, Manager of PR and Sales ...
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• Buyers Join Forces to Tackle the Translation Quality Measurement Conundrum

  
  Global Watchtower — Authority: 115
  We’ve written extensively about translation quality from the buyer’s perspective, arguing that companies purchasing translation services should assume a more proactive role in defining their requirements, developing their own metrics, and communicating with suppliers about how they intend to evaluate their ...
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• Alexander O. Smith on localizing games for Square

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 797
  Weve heard the horror stories about the conditions under which famous Square translator Ted Woolsey had to work -- strictly constrained time and space limits and no feedback from the games creators, which led to sometimes odd translations. Alexander O. Smith, who localized games for Square including Vagrant Story , ...
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• Translating articles on bible.org

  
  Futurebible — Authority: 404
  Translation of articles on the site We encourage anyone to translate any article off the site so we can offer it to others for study. Therefore permission is granted for you to translate the articles on the site provided you acknowledge the source and include the statement (used by permission author’s name, ...
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