We are looking for someone who is a native Chinese speaker and would like to translate Planetaki to simplified Chinese. It’s not a big deal of work (a couple of hours perhaps) but a great deal of responsability since there are many people who would use Planetaki in Chinese. The only requisites are good profficiency of both English and Chinese (simplified) and some familiarity with Planetaki as a user.
If you are that person and would like to volunteer, drop us a line at hello@planetaki.com.
We will credit you on the website and probably send you one of the ultra-cool tshirts we are designing.
PS: French, Italian, German and Catalan translations are on its way.
While for some people Friday the 13th is bad luck, we’re fortunate enough to be in Spain where Tuesday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky, and probably for this reason the last upgrade has gone quite smoothly. There were a few moments of downtime as the servers restarted, but nothing to worry about. Nonetheless, apologies if you didn’t manage to get your Planetaki hit when you wanted it.
There are quite a few little changes and fixes in this release and a major change to help us send out notifications which we’ll be trying out very soon. For the curious techy people, we’re now running Rails 2.1 to take advantage of some of its cool features.
One of the smaller fixes comes after a complaint from the guys at unvlog.com, where the videos from their blogs were not coming up properly in Planetaki. That should be working okay now, but please guys, no more Abba videos, and no, I don’t care if they sing in Spanish, its just not good for you ;-)
We’ve set up Planet Mac with the best sources on Apple and the Mac for you to follow today’s World Wide Developers Conference in case you are not phisically attending. We believe Planetaki may work as an amplifier for Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field ;)
You can either check the planet or add the blogs you like to your planet, where they will refresh content every two minutes or so.