A busy week in Redlands as a few interesting updates have come out of the campus. Noteworthy updates have localized options for users of ArcGIS.com and ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight 1.0 and ArcGIS for Sharepoint have been released.

ciao, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Olá, Hola to Esri ArcGIS Online in 9 More Languages

Cool news from the campus in Redlands CA today as Esri has announced that ArcGIS Online has localized for another 9 languages adding support for Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. Now users of the free to access WMS can easily alter their language setting – simply login to your account (yes you need to create a user profile) then under your settings simply select one of the many available language options. According to the official announcement, localized data products are also made available to users, thanks to specially curated content via a number of International Esri disctibutors. See below how my own ArcGIS.com session appears when I set my language to French… tres bon! Notice that the map mashup shown was originally created in English and this the data remains in that language

See More – ArcGIS Online Now Available in Nine Additional Languages

ArcGIS  For Silverlight 1.0

Good news via the Esri dev blog for you ArcGIS developers interested in SilverLight as the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight 1.0 and ArcGIS for Sharepoint have been released.  Users can now create a Silverlight-based web mapping app via an intuitive WYSIWYG  App Builder.  More about the SilverLight solutions from Esri. With the ArcGIS Viewer for Silverlight, you can:

Recall, ArcGIS for Sharepoint enables users to incorporate  GIS web services into SharePoint through a Map Web Part

See also the Esri SilverLight team blog for more

More tips and updates from @Esri this week:

• Recent updates to the #ArcGIS Online World Topo Map cover Melbourne, Kuwait, & more
• Major upgrade to Esri Educational Site License Program includes #Esri CityEngine, #ArcGIS Online subscriptions & more
  
• Many hotels already over 50% capacity. Register today & take advantage of special room rates for #EsriUC
• Attend the #EsriFedCon & hear David J. Hayes, Deputy Secretary of the Interior keynote!  
• Esri DevMeetUp schedule Announced