April 18, 2007
The Universal Language of FeedBurning
For those of you playing the FeedBurner Around the World game, please place your left hand on the "Flame Thrower" square while we take a moment to catch everyone else up.
Unbeknownst to the lot of us who've been contentedly minding our stats, stockpiling our reserve of Headline Animators, and tending to our FeedFlare gardens, FeedBurner has quietly spread to the four corners of the earth. For real. We have resellers in Japan, Spain and Russia, our customer base includes thousands upon thousands of feeds from publishers all over the world and our flame-o-con burns brightly for millions of subscribers in 190 different countries. It's irresistable — even Ewan and Charley plotted their route straight through picturesque FeedBurner Country. (Hey, that movie looks familiar.)
In the spirit of at least one burned feed for every online publisher, we are proud to announce the latest enhancement to the FeedBurner.com site: Multilingual support for Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. (Stand by for German, Italian, and French, coming soon from the FeedBurner Reparto di Romanze Sprachen et Patisserie). Today, if you enter our site via FeedBurner.es or FeedBurner.ru, you will see FeedBurner in either Spanish or Russian, respectively. To view all language options, select your choice from the new Languages page. (Note our CEO's transformation into the formidable Ricardo “la Perla de Oaxaca” Costolo.)
We would especially like to thank our fine community of translators (a full list appears below). These talented folks localized (and continue to localize - we change things a lot around here!) our site content and then passed the baton to our in-house team, Matt, John, and Alden who then brought it all home. There's still a long way to go, so if you would like to lend your skills to the multilingual cause, let us know today. We're especially interested in Dutch, Chinese, and Hindi. And Klingon. Having spent some time in Canada, we're hoping to be able to do the Canadian English version here in-house. Analyse, Optimise, Publicise, Monetise, and let's not forget - Troubleshootise. Doon. Eh-to-Zed.
And now, those aforementioned propers:
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
A quick update from Japan
Speaking of the FeedBurner world view, business is good for our partners in Japan who have added a slew of new publishers to the FeedBurner family including some big ole feeds from AllAbout, Golf Digest Online, ASCII.jp.
FeedBurner Japan is also seeing more advertising dollars flowing into our ad network for blogs and RSS feeds, no doubt due to this clever ad.
Sayonara. Adios. Ciao. tlhIngan jIHbe'!
Comments
This is very good news - I hope we can localize the whole package, like the footers of the excellent email-service.
I wish the Chinese come soon!
Ilmay - we've had a few volunteers to do a Chinese version - so hopefully this will come soon.
I've forwarded this post to the main Danish Wordpress website at www.wordpress.dk
Let's see if someone gets interested in translating Feedburner. I'd certainly appreciate it!
I also want the Chinese version, please do it :D
Waiting for Chinese!!!
I wish the Polish come soon! ;p
