We're Big in Europe
Monday, December 17, 2007
Launching a new release is always a learning experience. I am still sorting through the launch numbers and the flood of e-mails to try to understand how to make the product and marketing even better.
One thing interesting about this launch is that a lot of our traffic came from Germany and France. In fact, here are the percentage of visits from the top three countries since launching last week:
- United States: 36% of visitors
- Germany: 22% of visitors
- France: 10% of visitors
This is due mostly to some great news coverage Bee Docs' Timeline received in these countries. For example, MacNews.de (German) and MacGeneration.com (French) both featured stories on the Bee Docs' Timeline 2.0 launch.
One of the design goals for this release was to make the date formats flexible enough to handle all the localizations that Mac OS X supports. I'm happy to see that people in other countries are finally able to use Bee Docs' Timeline with their preferred date formats.
However, the user interface and documentation (and the website) are only in English. I would love to expand this to many more languages, so I'm working on a strategy to get this done. If anyone reading this blog has experience localizing Mac software to languages other than your own, I'd appreciate any advice and insight you can provide into your process.
Labels: europe timeline localization german french macnews macgeneration
3 Comments:
Forget about the geographic date formats and concentrate on improving the product - it needs lots of work, like:
NO HELP FILES?????
ABILITY TO CHAGE TIMELINE SCLAE DYNAMICALLY
ABILITY TO PRINT BULK EDIT VIEW
ABILITY YO SET DATE FOR EACH EVENT EASILY (LIKE MAYBE A DROP DOWN CALENDAR)
OVERALL THE CHANGES THAT WERE ADDED SEEM VERY SUPERFICIAL AND THE PRODUCT NEEDS MUCH WORK TO BECOME COMPETITIVE...
VERY DISAPPOINTED CUSTOMER
What competition? I did not yet find a comparable product.
Granted, there are things I would like to see in Timeline. There are a few features that I regard as gimmicks. Despite that, I think Timeline is a good and mature product.
Best regards,
/Markus.
I agree with Markus. Timeline has no real competition.
ABILITY TO SET DATE FOR EACH EVENT EASILY (LIKE MAYBE A DROP DOWN CALENDAR).
That may be fine for current or near current dates, but those doing timelines for ancient (or even early modern) history, would find it easier to use manual input.
I do agree though that the ability to change the timeline scale dynamically would be useful.
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