BlogBridge in Russian is still BlogBridge
Today we are releasing BlogBridge 2.20, the latest “weekly development release“. I will do a separate post about what’s new there.
From time to time we have received offers from people in different countries to create a version of BlogBridge in their language, for example in French or German.
Up to now we weren’t cleanly structured to allow a non-programmer to accomplish this. One of the coolest pieces of work that Aleksey has done in this release is go through all of BlogBridge (a long and tedious effort) and clean it up to permit this. And to prove that it works, he created our first translation, into Russian.
One practical thing that translation brings up is what the best word is for some of our buzz words like Feed and Reading List - finding the right word that is both brief and clear. Of course it appears that the translation of BlogBridge should always be just that — BlogBridge 
Users who have their systems set to use Russian will automagically get the Russian version of BlogBridge. Isn’t that neat?
If you know another language and would like to do a translation for us, we’d be thrilled to hear from you! Right now we have tentative volunteers for German and French. Anyone else?
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Translation of domain-specific terms - don’t do it
pitosalas from BlogBridge wonders how to translate domain specific words like “Feed” or “Readling List” to German. I would always opt not to translate the very specific terms like “Feed”. You can’t come up with…
Trackback by Martins Notepad — June 3, 2006 @ 5:37 am
Don’t wish to rain on your parade, but i’ve seen Amorvine’s product and it incorporates multilingual blogging along with a full office environment all in Ajax! As I understand it the product is being secretly beta tested, but boy watch out, this is the next Google (IMHO)
Comment by Steve Weaver — April 3, 2007 @ 6:47 pm
Congratulations!!!! Can you attempt to do this in Japanese? That would really be something wonderful! Good luck!
Comment by JW — December 29, 2007 @ 6:51 am
You are absolutely correct!! But what bothers me is that the evolution of the web is moving so fast
Comment by Vladlena Nyzhnik — April 26, 2008 @ 11:39 am