Here is the video of the Web Usability Event on June 25 featuring Tom Chi, Senior Director - User Experience, Yahoo!, Jeremy Ashley, Vice President, Applications User Experience, Oracle, and David Nelson, Sr. Experience Designer, Adobe Systems.

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Labels: localization, Search, social media, usability, usability 2.0, user experience, web 2.0

Google is reportedly now using their own machine translator technology on Google Translate which was previously provided by Systran, a provider of online translation, translation software, and tools. There are apparently still issues with both technologies - Systran translation used by Altavista and Yahoo, and Google translation.
I like that Google allows you to translate a word or a block of text, entire web pages, and search in other languages. What is also cool is when you translate text, it will give you the option to “Suggest a better translation” so More»

Labels: google, localization, Translations, Yahoo, YHOO

Hot off the research block, the Pew/Internet Research Group has published a report yesterday which indicates that China’s internet population of 137 million is growing at a faster rate and is expected to outpace that of the U.S.’s of 165 to 210 million in a few years. This is not suprising considering the population of China which is at 1.3B compared to the U.S.’s at 300M.
There are many implications of this notwithstanding the impact on site globalization requirements for more and more companies wanting to do business in the lucrative Chinese market. The upside is that the “Chinese share More»

Labels: china, globalization, india, internet, localization

I am an avid user and fan of Google Apps and judging by its growing popularity, I am certainly not alone on this. I recently had an opportunity to interview Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer, for Google Apps to gain some insight into this suite of apps. Jon was also recently a panelist at the Usability 2.0 Event at the WebGuild on April 11, 2007.
Q: You work on Google Apps. Can you tell the readers a little about it and what you do on Google More»

Labels: ajax, design, Google Apps, localization, Mobile, usability 2.0, user experience, web 2.0