Monthly Archives: May 2008

Using Facebook in Polish

As of May 14, 2008 Facebook is available in a variety of languages, not the least of which is Polish. I really appreciate how community-supported the whole translation process was: More than 450 Polish-speaking users on Facebook chose to be part of the effort to translate the site from English to Polish. Users who added …

May 23, 2008 – 15:33 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , | View Comments

Flickr Search Tagging – First Alpha Release

Introducing Flickr Search Tagging! It’s a little utility that enables a couple of things: Let’s you to propose tags for images that don’t belong to you on Flickr. Contributing tags if you want to help describe the image is often not possible, unless: you’re the owner, you’re a contact of the owner, or the person …

May 20, 2008 – 18:52 | By dariusz | Posted in Masters Research | Tagged , , , , | View Comments

Re-learning the Internet in another language.

Sometime around when I was 14 years old the World Wide Web showed up. and it seems that I have been developing with it ever since. So never, ever did I expect to be as lost on the Internet as I currently am: it feels like the one domain where I should be competent. With …

May 1, 2008 – 20:59 | By dariusz | Posted in User Experience | Tagged , , , | View Comments