WhatsApp: Another “translation worthy” success story
I wrote recently that if you can make your product “translation worthy” the world will follow. Reading about Facebook’s purchase …
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Crowdsourcing
Make your product “translation worthy” and the world will follow
From my guest post for Gigaom: When a software company asks me if I think its new product will succeed …
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Measuring translation quality: A Q&A with TAUS founder Jaap van der Meer
Every translation vendor offers the highest-quality translations. Or so they say. But how do you know for sure that one …
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Listen to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (in 53 languages)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been translated into 370 languages Here’s the full list. But if you’re less into …
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The Khan Academy and the kindness of translators
The Khan Academy is out to revolutionize education by providing a free online education through lots and lots of well-produced …
Twitter launches translation crowdsourcing, again
Twitter went live with its newly updated translation center today. This is the second iteration of the platform; it first …
Adobe launches translation crowdsourcing in China
Facebook has demonstrated that you can crowdsource translations with high quality and rapid turnaround, leading many other companies to ask …
Is Google the best machine translation engine? It depends…
Two weeks ago, I introduced Ethan Shen and his project to analyze the three major free machine translation (MT) engines …
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