Rosetta Provides Collaborative Online FOSS Translation

Rosetta is a web-based platform that does exactly what I thought needed to be done: it makes open source software translation really easy for lots of people, and it makes it easy to collaborate on a translation project.
Instead of having to edit .po files manually, this web interface allows you to easily just … [...]

January 27 2006

Community Mapping Network (CMN)

The Community Mapping Network (CMN)provides an online mapping application that allows folks in British Columbia, Canada, to create and edit information about environmental resources in their areas.
The application is used for sustainable city planning efforts and other types of environmentally-sensitive decision making.
Perhaps more interestingly, the CMN also hosts a directory of international [...]

January 2 2006

Five fun facts from Broadband Wiki

Here’s this from global-minded site about broadband technologies:

“And now for the fun part….
Did you know that Iceland is only behind South Korea, Netherlands and Denmark in Internet penetration, and 84% of its households have Internet connection?
Australia adds 40,000 broadband connections every month.
In Spain, you can get a 20 megabit/second connection for $36 a month and [...]

November 11 2005

The Law and Blogging

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has just released a great “Legal Guide For Bloggers,” which goes into some of the concepts that you might not be familiar with.
If your organization is getting into blogging as a way to advocate your cause (and give honest PR, retain donors, keep employees up-to-date, keep volunteers enthused etc. …), [...]

June 28 2005