TechCrunch, Now in French!

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1. Zoli Erdos
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 5:54 pm

   Wow… for his original content is he gonna feature French companies only? Are you gonna get those back here in English?

2. Michael Arrington
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 5:55 pm

   Zoli, there are no limitations on what he writes about. Some of it will likely make its way in English to techcrunch.com.

3. Zoli Erdos
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 6:00 pm

   Haha, I just did an Englisf>French>English roundtrip of this page on Google Translate:

   TechCrunch, maintaining in French! Announced by Michael Arrington I am happy to announce the launching of French TechCrunch “” with fr.techcrunch.com. All the contents of TechCrunch will be translated into French and will be announced in one day or thus of the English version. The site is written by Ouriel very gifted Ohayon, which will also write the original contents as well. If you it French of speak/read, TechCrunch in French can be for you. The food of RSS is http://feeds.feedburner.com/francaistechcrunch.
   

   This is actually not that bad … but humans still beat it

4. Michael Arrington
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 6:18 pm

   Thanks Zoli…My hope is that Ouriel does a better job than babel fish.

5. Orli Yakuel
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 8:48 pm

   Hey mike, good for you!
   Good Luck with that
   
   http://urmad.pagalguy.com/arch.....Symbol.jpg
   (goodLuckSymbol)

6. Tangos
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 10:49 pm

   so, when will it be a Techcrunch Chinese version?

7. Ouriel
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 10:52 pm

   Hi Zoli, actually babel/google translate applied from the english to french or the other way round is quite funny. I bet you’ll laugh at trying to decode the automated translation of french TechCrunch to english. have a look

   http://www.google.com/translat.....38;ie=UTF8

8. Arnaud Velten
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 11:08 pm

   GREAT Bravo (in french dans le texte ;p)

9. beatlesan
   

   February 5th, 2006 at 11:38 pm

   hope for TechCrunch in Chinese
   期待看到中文TechCrunch

10. Mana
    

    February 5th, 2006 at 11:47 pm

    Is is ‘TechCrunch France’ or ‘TechCrunch in French’?

    If it’s the latter, then using the French flag as part of your logo is immensely annoying. (Perhaps you should put the Union Jack on the English version of TechCrunch just to be consistent?)

    Sorry… just a big pet peeve of mine when web sites use nation-flags to represent languages. It’s soooo Web 1.0.

11. Michael Arrington
    

    February 6th, 2006 at 12:42 am

    Mana - #9 - Sorry about that. This seems to be the easiest way to let people know that the content is in French.

12. cadich
    

    February 6th, 2006 at 5:40 am

    Hey that’s great, but don’t you think it’s a bit odd to “duplicate” the info? Especially since Ouriel is adding some extra content to your posts, now I feel I have to check both of them…
    Anyway, keep up the good work, I just love your site.

13. Bing
    

    February 6th, 2006 at 12:44 pm

    Would like to do a Chinese Translation of the site.

14. Bob Boydston
    

    February 6th, 2006 at 2:47 pm

    Michael,

    Félicitations!

    This certainly is a milestone for your operation.

    Bons chance et mai vous prospérez!

15. Manas Gupta
    

    February 6th, 2006 at 3:10 pm

    Hey Michael,
    Is editor@techcrunch.com still active?

    -Manas

16. Seb
    

    February 6th, 2006 at 3:20 pm

    Hey, that’s a great news for all the “francophones” like me :), even if read this site in its original language help me to improve my english that is rather bad …
    Félicitations !

17. Halley Suitt
    

    February 7th, 2006 at 10:49 am

    C’est formidable! Tres bien fait!

    Comment dit-on en francais “geek”?

18. M
    

    February 7th, 2006 at 1:12 pm

    Talk about bringing tech to the unwashed masses…