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According to Alex Buran,CEO and founder of Translation Cloud, "The more translators we have,the faster and more accurate Translation Cloud becomes.I'm excited about reaching our goal...
All the work is performed online, through the Translation Cloud app on the user’s Facebook page. Once the user adds the app by signing up at www.translationcloud.net, they can log into their...
"South By Southwest is one of the best events for new tech companies and startups to introduce their new projects to the rest of the world.At the rate it is spreading,Translation Cloud might...
Now Smartling will offer an app to all Cloudflare users that enables these translations along with securing and stabilizing their site. This is the first partnership of this kind for Smartling,...
Smartling is a cloud-based software platform for translation management and delivery of your website and app.The company offers a free level of site translation for up to 5,000 multilingual page...
“With SDL BeGlobal, we are continuing to deliver ongoing innovation in the cloud,” said Swamy Viswananthan, Senior Vice president of Products and Marketing for the SDL Language Technologies...
Online translation is rising. Here are more startups to prove that it is indeed heating up: Babelverse is a startup whose concept is crowdsourced real time interpretation for conferences and...
While Ackuna still offers the free translation option through crowdsourcing to a community of bi-lingual users and translators, the new professional translation option is a paid service. While...
Harnessing the power of Google Translate, the Facebook community, crowdsourced and crowdvoted translations, and an extensive archive of professional translations produced by Translation Services...
Translation Cloud is an innovative application which allows everyone to work from home as a translator. In order to qualify, you need to be fluent in at least two languages.
They don't know who it's for, what its purpose is or really anything more than what they need to accomplish their translation, testing or data management tasks. It's a very managed...
Crowdsourcing has been firmly established as a valid and often preferable method for reaching organizational goals and accomplishing more with the same dollars. However, while crowdsourcing works very well for some problems, it may not be a viable solution for others. As the tools become available to crowdsource translation projects, it’s important to evaluate why organizations crowdsource in general and if those criteria are a good fit for crowdsourced translation initiatives.
In this article Calvin Scharffs addresses four benefits organizations receive from crowdsourcing in general: Cost savings, Increased Speed / Distributing Risk, Increased efficiencies and Brand involvement and evaluate if those benefits transfer effectively to translation projects.
The partnership with Groupon is one of several recent high-profile client wins for Clickworker, reflecting the global growth of the company and the rapid expansion of the overall crowdsourcing...
A few weeks ago, I was attending the NSF Workshop on Social Networks and Mobility in the Cloud. There, I ran into the NIST definition of cloud computing (PDF).
After reading it, I felt that it would be a nice exercise to transform the definition into something similar for the dual area of "cloud labor" (a.k.a. crowdsourcing).
Cloud labor is quietly but surely changing the way businesses operate by making completing tasks cheaper, faster, and more manageable. Today, new platforms are attempting to bridge the gap between the freelance and crowdsource models of cloud labor, hoping to get the advantages of both and to minimize each other’s shortcomings.
TextMaster, a crowdsourced proofreading, translation and copywriting service, recently announced it raised €1.64 million (around $2.1 million) in series A funding. The team said the new investors’ money “will enable us to develop new projects, reach new markets, and even open an office in New York!”
Systems management software and support is a huge market, but few if any legacy vendors have products and knowledge that easily translate into webscale environments. Facebook could stand to make...
Here are some they have found useful. All of these websites are in Thai, but luckily the developers made them intuitive enough for foreigners to try the navigation or wade through with Google...
Once the first translated version is in place, customization is easy. The flexible cloud-based platform consolidates all tools and resources into one user-friendly dashboard making workflow...
A lawsuit filed in a federal court against leading cloud labor platform Crowdflower challenges an assumption that is at the very foundation of crowdsourcing, at least in the United States.
Founded in 2010, the industry website, Crowdsourcing.org, is a neutral organization dedicated solely to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. As one of the most influential and credible authorities in the crowdsourcing space, Crowdsourcing.org is recognized worldwide for its intellectual capital, crowdsourcing and crowdfunding practice expertise and unbiased thought leadership.
