OpenSource Globalization (G11N)

New Life on Planet Globalization

Tuesday Jul 22, 2008

The group of Sun's bloggers that write about globalization is growing rapidly, which is good. There are now tens of blogs you can watch to get the latest insights of globalization bloggers, which is not so good assuming you don't have all the blogs bookmarked.

To improve the quality of our reader's life, Sun has introduced planets.sun.com website. Any Sun employee can set up a planet on their own. A planet is a selection blogs which are consolidated on a single web page. It uses the RSS feed of each blog to watch for changes and when a new entry is posted it copies it to the planet. By visiting a single planet, you get the latest blog entries from a group of carefully selected blogs.

Sounds cool? There's even more than that. A planet can gather not only blogs, but almost any source of content with an RSS feed, such as mailing list entries or media posted by Sun employees via the Mediacast.

Melanie Gao has already set up a Globalization Community Content planet at http://planets.sun.com/globalization/ which features Globalization Blogs and Globalization Forums. Now you can monitor the globalization-related traffic at one site only. Enjoy!

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