Service Language

In the last week there were several posts on Orkut. The average user seems to come from Brazil (have a look at Iran!). This in itself is no problem and it shows that the Internet is a global medium. What is however more troublesome is that the language is changing from English to Portuguese. And the two do not seem to get along.

It shows that language is an important parameter of an online service and that they can not mix. Especially for services that have user generated content this is troublesome. I guess that the language spoken in an online service will be enforced in the future, otherwise the service falls apart.

[inspiration: Social Software Weblog]