AllPeers v0.55, the Polyglot Edition

Software companies based in the United States have traditionally had an advantage over the rest of the world, otherwise so many of the top names wouldn’t be American. No European or Asian company has come even close to attaining the dizzying heights of an Amazon, eBay, Yahoo or Google. Nonetheless, this situation is slowly changing and an occasional theme of this blog has been the rise of Europe as a software power.

One of the biggest advantages that European companies have over their counterparts across the pond is a better, more intuitive understanding of multiculturalism. Nowhere does this manifest itself more clearly than in language. The vast majority of Americans speak only English competently (if that), whereas most Europeans with any kind of education can get by in at least two, with many people speaking three, four or more languages proficiently. This gives you the kinds of deep insights into other cultures that are essential when delivering a product to an international audience.

AllPeers (the company) is no exception: among our 14 employees we have seven nationalities, with four working languages in our Prague office. So it’s almost ironic that the software has been available until now in English only. I’m pleased to announce that with v0.55 we’ve rectified this problem, with the help of a fantastic group of volunteers on Mozilla add-on translation site BabelZilla. The new version is available for download in the usual place. Besides support for Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Spanish, there are a number of other improvements (particularly some new additions to the chat functionality) that you can read about on the download page.

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4 Comments »

1. I think it’s babelzilla.org, not babelzilla.com

   Thanks for your amazing job!

   Comment by Fran García — 2/6/2007 @ 5:37 pm

2. Oops, thanks for the heads up. I fixed it.

   Comment by Matt — 2/6/2007 @ 6:09 pm

3. Why don’t you come over here and say that?

   Comment by Ben — 2/6/2007 @ 11:04 pm

4. inquietante…………. ma il mondo gira!!!!!!

   Comment by greg-s — 2/9/2007 @ 10:35 pm

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