This guest article was authored by Talia Baruch of Copyous (http://copyous.com). The Urban Nomad Sounds familiar? Like someone we’ve transformed into, slowly and steadily, encapsulated by the virtual ritual. Yep, we’re on the GO.  And we demand instant, interactive information anytime anywhere. The Urban Nomad in us is never bound to one place. Wherever we [...]

By Danica Brinton, CEO of LocLabs. I have been in the international-production, international-product-management and globalization business for over 12 years. Over the past four, I have been focused on online games, social and mobile games and applications. I realize that my continued focus on and fascination with this particular area has a lot to do with the instant gratification that results from globalizing in the social/mobile space. Sure I have seen great results from globalizing software, handhelds, CPU’s, search and web services, but the dramatic increase in the overall user base and revenue coming from localization of social games, mobile games and applications provides the best – and the most immediate – business case to invest in international expansion.

Congratulations, your software is now shipping throughout the world. Now, what happens to folks who need to enter data? What happens if your clients want to enter Japanese ideograms? Could they do that with a US keyboard? Conversely, what if Japanese users need to type in US text? Is your application able to handle switching from one locale to another and still let the user enter data?

This article was originally featured in the Jan./Feb. 2011 issue of MultiLingual Computing Magazine, in Adam Asnes’ Business Side column. Read article “Agile Challenges” on MultiLingual’s Website. A Hot Topic Agile development is such a hot topic these days because it represents a change in how software is developed. More specifically, it has proven successful [...]

This article was originally featured in the Oct./Nov. 2010 issue of MultiLingual Computing Magazine, in Adam Asnes’ Business Side column. Read article “Shrinking the Triangle” on MultiLingual’s Website. Good, Quick, and Cheap? Good, quick, cheap – pick any two. Project managers will tell you this project triangle is the way it has to be. Fair [...]

The Localization Technology Round Table, held on Tuesday, October 19th in Boston, Massachusetts in front of a live audience and streamed online to a worldwide audience, brought together 5 industry leaders to present an open technology framework that speeds up time to market and drastically reduces your localization and translation costs. Together, Lingoport, acrolinx, Clay [...]

This article was originally featured in the September 2010 issue of MultiLingual Computing Magazine, in Adam Asnes’ Business Side column. Read article “Internationalization (I18n) in Canada” on MultiLingual’s Website. Canada represents one of the most accessible opportunities to test the waters of global expansion for companies which are new to adapting their software for worldwide customers. [...]

This article was originally featured in the July/August 2010 issue of MultiLingual Computing Magazine, in Adam Asnes’ Business Side column. Read article “The Business Why and How of Simship” in PDF file format. The subject of managing releases over worldwide markets can be a contentious one, with pros and cons on either side of business and [...]

Note: This article is featured in the June 2010 issue of MultiLingual Computing Magazine, in Adam Asnes’ Business Side column. If you’re considering internationalizing a large and complex software product, there’s one thing you should be prepared for: it’s expensive. There’s just no way around it if you want an application that properly presents, inputs, [...]

We pay a great deal of attention to innovation and sing its praises. But actually the road to creation, improvement and acceptance is messy and full of pitfalls. Innovation is often hard to recognize and to assign value, at first. More often than not, its introduction doesn’t live up to everyone’s expectations. But still it [...]