Gamesparks and Playfab are ground zero for what will be one of the most interesting battlegrounds for cloud services. Though there are other options in LiveOps (HeroicLabs, ilogos, and Unity) these are limited to one platform or they are so small they won’t be able to compete with the 2 […]
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So maybe you’ve found this mildly interesting if you are actually in a position to move a whole company’s localization processes or you’re good at imagining such opportunities into existence. But I don’t expect the opportunities I had come along often or they can be made. More likely you work […]
I begin with a Mark Twain quote because the data for localization is confusing to outsiders and it really serves to insulate the industry from scrutiny. For LSPs and MLVs it is a great way to say you pay one cost but we deliver more value than we charge you. […]
Data in WELD I use the term data rather than content since I am referring to not only content, the content lifecycle, content metadata, but also information that is essential for the enterprise operations. This is not always content-like marketing. It could be database tables, noSQL key-values, or any other […]
After seven and a half years at Amazon I’ve recently left. At Amazon, I purposely lived in the shadows because the rules around publicizing our work were stringent. But now I plan to think and write as much as possible to make up for the last 7 years of silence. […]
When I first realized I had found a new career (2010) I wrote this article on becoming a localization project manager. I’d already been an LPM for 4 years without really realizing it was a profession. The LPM article is really about how to apply project management skills to the […]
An upcoming development in e-readers will be the battle for revenue from non-English content. Though Amazon has made large strides in English ebooks their international rollout of the Kindle has left them somewhat vulnerable on this front. A fully capable e-reader that allows UTF-8 and thus can display every language […]