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TransKit : A New Translation SDK For Software and Web Developers
November 14 2009
If you've had to build a multilingual website, or worse retrofit an existing website to be multilingual, you know this can be a time consuming and expensive process. The Worldwide Lexicon open source translation platform is now beginning to ship... read moreAdding Professional Translations To Your Website or Webapp
October 28 2009
If you have ever had to localize your website or web app, you know that it can be time consuming, difficult and expensive. This week we (www.worldwidelexicon.org) are rolling out a new service that makes this as simple as a... read moreBuilding A Translatable Website (Call For Developers)
October 23 2009
The Worldwide Lexicon is a collaborative, open source translation platform that combines inputs from professional, volunteer and machine translators. It is a best effort system that translates pages as they are served, using the best available resources at the time,... read moreBuilding A Translation Proxy Server (How To Make Any Website Translatable)
October 19 2009
While the web has rendered time and distance moot, the language barrier is still standing. Although services like Babelfish and Google Translate have made a few dents in the wall, the web remains not a worldwide network, but dozens of... read moreClass R (Revenue) Stock: A New Class of Investment? [GigaOM]
June 18 2009
Balancing the interests of investors and entrepreneurs is an ongoing topic of discussion in Silicon Valley. But while numerous efforts to create new types of investment classes aimed at removing this imbalance (for examples, see the Founders Fund, Adeo Ressi’s The Funded and the newly launched SharesPost) have recently emerged,… read moreAn Open Letter To Newspaper Publishers
May 07 2009
Dear Publisher, With so many people predicting your imminent death, you're probably wishing the Grim Reaper would just stop by and get it over with. The good news is that when everyone in the technology business or the financial press... read moreDon’t Call the Gravedigger — Newspapers Aren’t Dead (Yet) [GigaOM]
May 05 2009
Newspapers are struggling, at least in part, because of a basic misunderstanding about advertising: While nobody wants to deal with Whack-A-Mole popup ads, if you create a welcoming marketplace, people will visit, and sellers will happily pay rent (advertise) to be there. Wouldn't it be ironic if a key to… read moreFor SARS Press 1.. (How To Host Classes Online When Your School Is Closed)
April 28 2009
This is an update to an article I first posted on Oreilly in 2006. The information has aged substantially since then, and with the recent news about the spread of a new flu strain, I thought it made sense to... read moreSocial Translation with Der Mundo (Beta Testers Wanted)
February 25 2009
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about social translation using the Worldwide Lexicon as well as a review of Google's App Engine platform. This week we quietly turned on a general purpose tool for translating any website or... read moreSocial Translation : Using the WWL API To Build Multilingual Sites and Web Apps
February 11 2009
Language is one of the few remaining barriers on the Internet. The web has rendered time and distance largely irrelevant, but much of it remains fragmented by language. The Worldwide Lexicon, an open source project I have worked on for... read moreWhy I Started Coding Again (Thanks, Guido!)
February 11 2009
This is a follow up article to a piece I wrote in 2007, "Why I Stopped Coding and Why I'd Start Again". I took a several year hiatus from writing code, mostly because I found that I was spending more... read moreQuicknet: What Might Have Been [GigaOM]
February 02 2009
The technology industry is full of alternate histories, tales of what might have been had things unfolded just a bit differently. We all know about Skype, but did you know that the likes of Skype could have emerged a decade sooner, and almost did, thanks to a scrappy little San… read moreQuicknet: What Might Have Been [GigaOM]
February 02 2009
The technology industry is full of alternate histories, tales of what might have been had things unfolded just a bit differently. We all know about Skype, but did you know that the likes of Skype could have emerged a decade sooner, and almost did, thanks to a scrappy little San… read moreMemo to GM: Drop Dead [Earth2Tech]
November 21 2008
Many of the readers on this site support or invest in cleantech companies, of which green cars are an important component. We’ve all seen the dire predictions about what will happen if the Big Three automakers fold. Millions of people will be thrown out of work, the economy will implode,… read moreMy.Gov: How Obama Can Use the Net to Improve Government [GigaOM]
November 13 2008
President-elect Obama promised during his campaign to create a "Google for government." Now that he's on his way to the White House, let's imagine what this might look like, and how such a tool could change the way people relate to those tasked with running our country. The first image this… read moreRecent Posts | All Posts