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The Finish Line

posted 2007-05-03 21:53:58
by Chase Tingley

I'm sitting in the San Diego airport, still recovering from the final day of WorldSummit 2007. My original plan was to spend most of the day stressing out about my impending presentation on the subject of Filters. But I kept getting distracted, because Day Three was packed with interesting stuff. A few things I saw:

• Andrew and Peter put together a highly intriguing session on localization's response to Web 2.0. This was a session not so much about answers, but questions. They started by showing this video by Mike Wesch and then launched in to a discussion of the possibilities for "personalized localization" opened by the Web 2.0 themes of openness and collaboration. This is embryonic stuff, but the possibilities are really interesting.


• Michael Gaudette from eBay presented a rundown of tools that they have developed to automate parts of their WorldServer configuration, which is extensive. One thing he showed was an SDK-based tool that is run after content is moved from one part of AIS to another -- the tool updates all the linkage and metadata to point to the right locations, something that WorldServer doesn't do automatically.


• Neeraj Bezalwar from Quagnito described a fairly amazing integration they've developed between Passolo and WorldServer using web services. Essentially, Passolo operates normally, except that at some point the content is shipped to WorldServer via web services and leveraged against the core TM. Then it's shipped back, again via services. Neeraj's argument was that the same principle can be applied to clearly tie all sorts of disparate localization environments to WorldServer. Wow.

I'm obviously omitting a lot, so I would encourage everyone to check out all the presentations when they're available online. I learned a lot at WorldSummit 2007, and I hope everyone else did too.
See you all next year.

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