Multilingual Web
March 5, 2008

SpeakLike real-time translation chat

A similar product to ChatStat that I described before is SpeakLike. Launched just last month this is a real time, instant messaging, service using a mixture of automatic machine translation (MT) and human translators to edit the results. The service is…
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Digital Globalization
August 10, 2019

Best practice for presenting website language selection

I first began working with multilingual websites in 1995. In those extremely early days of the web, the technical difficulties involved in translating web content were formidable, even for European languages. Many of the difficulties in displaying translated text were,…
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Digital Globalization
April 11, 2011

Social media name check tool

As social media on the internet becomes more and more important for inbound marketing it is now as vital to make sure that you own and control consistent user names on the social networking sites as it is to have…
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Digital Globalization
March 29, 2011

Multilingual Web Marketing with Twitter

To track the most important users in each language (and allow you to follow them) there is currently an app called twopcharts. It is easy to become distracted by the huge amount of data available  to you when using Twitter, and…
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Digital GlobalizationMultilingual Content
February 4, 2011

15 years of multilingual web marketing

As the new year began last month I realized that I have now been involved with multilingual web services, translation and marketing for around 15 years – and that is an extremely long time in “internet” years! If you are…
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Digital GlobalizationMultilingual Content
May 15, 2008

FAQ about multilingual websites

Q: What are the best languages to localize my websites and products into? A: If you are just starting out with localizing your products and websites I recommend starting with either all or an individual selection of French, Italian, German…
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