Plaxo's Personal CardAn inside look at all things PlaxoThink globally, act locally: customizing Pulse for different markets- February 27, 2008 The internationalization and localization of social networking sites poses a different set of challenges from the globalization of other types of software products. Yes, we still start by generalizing the software so it can accept other character sets, cultural standards and UI languages (internationalization can be seen as a generalization exercise). But localization of a social networking site such as Plaxo Pulse means much more than simply translating the product or adapting images and...http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2008/02/think_globally.html Introducing Public Profiles; Plaxo First App to Use Googles New Social Graph API- February 1, 2008 Most of us are choosing to share ever more of our lives publicly on the web, on blogs, Flickr, and an ever-expanding array of user-generated content sites. One result of that is that our public identities are becoming ever more fragmented. Naturally, giving users the ability to create a unified public profile enriched by some (or all) of their aggregated content stream in Pulse was something on our product roadmap for later this year. But a collaboration between our Joseph Smarr and...http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2008/02/introducing_pub.html |