There is this new restaurant you would like to try; it can get crowded, apparently, so you choose to reserve. You can give a call or reserve online. It should be pretty easy. Turns out you can’t…
Your website might already be available in several languages. How do you choose what language to display to your users? Three ways of selecting your user’s’ preferred language are their location…
It’s been a bit more than 4 years since we founded Minimal Technologies. We’ve gone through a lot of changes since then, including 4 different offices which we outgrew, and releasing WOVN.io free…
Japanese companies are globalizing and more and more foreigners are joining the Japanese workforce. The challenges that come with this are many, especially the cultural and language differences. What WOVN.io…
Jeffrey Sandford, CTO of WOVN.io, and Keita Kuno, Content Marketing Manager at favy, will be speaking on website localization at the LocWorld36 Tokyo conference, April 3-5, 2018. The presentation entitled…
International Women’s Day is celebrated (almost) everywhere, with marches, strikes, or gatherings. Japan isn’t so lively nor loud, yet it seems to be slowly picking up steam as a movement. Some data:…
WOVN Technologies is turning 4 today, March 5th 2018. Takaharu, Jeffrey, Shoji and Antoine have seen the company grow since the start. We’ve asked them to share with us what the past year was like, what…
スマート (sumāto): thin, slim, slender Smart: intelligent, witty In Japanese, スマート makes no reference to the intellect or fashion sense but to a person’s physical appearance; it is used…
University of Toronto study uses algorithms to predict how word meanings change over time Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Lehigh University and the University of Toronto have developed…
Our mission is to leverage engineering to create services with a global impact. Our users are international citizens. Rather than focusing inward towards Japan, we choose to build services that are used the world over.