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Bing Integrates Quora Questions Into Social Sidebar
Bing, Microsoft's search engine product, is integrating with question-and-answer site Quora, Microsoft announced on Wednesday. The partnership features results from top Quora users in Bing social...
View ArticleSmart App Lets Consumers Scan Bar Codes To See Product Reviews
Consmr is a clever new app that lets shoppers find product reviews by scanning an item's barcode. Even better, it might help them save money. On the mobile site, items are ranked from one to five...
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PBS NewsHour's Viewers are Translating Videos into 52+ Languages
Ever try watching Sesame Street in Turkish, or Hindi? Big Bird has made his way to 150 countries, and has been translated into more than 50 languages.Now, PBS NewsHour is working to follow the bird and...
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Historians Ask the Public to Help Transcribe Docs and Organize the Past
Informed article about the scope and limits of crowdsourcing the transcription of historical documents to build resources that extend scholarship and knowledge [Ed.]. The Bentham Project, based at...
View ArticleBabelverse Lands Seed Round For Human-Powered Online Interpreting Solution
Babelverse, the language translation startup that landed the title of "Audience Choice" at Disrupt NYC this past May, has raised a seed round led by 500 Startups along with a group of other angel...
View ArticleCollins Dictionary is Now Crowdsourcing New Lexemes
CollinsDictionary.com is accepting new word suggestions from anyone who wants to be part of the evolution of the English language. There have been over 4,000 entries since July 17, and 86 new words and...
View ArticleDuolingo, the Free Translation and Language-Learning site, picks up $15M
Crowd-driven translation startups seem to attract VC. Last month Babelverse won funding for its interpretation site. Now Duolingo has hit gold. You don't see many start-up localisation companies...
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VerbalizeIt's Live Translation Platform Hits 2,000 Translators in 6 Languages
Startup VerbalizeIt's translation platform connects users with local translators and acts as a real-life version of a phrasebook, providing live audio translation, non-live audio translation, and text...
View ArticleRap Genius Investor Envisions Crowdsourced Online Textual Commentary as...
Ben Horowitz has outlined a deeper vision behind the Horovitz-Andreessen $15M investment in Rap Genius. “Knowledge about knowledge over time becomes as important as the...
View ArticleOxford English Dictionary to Use Crowdsourcing for Finding Historical Examples
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) announced the launch of OED Appeals, a major online initiative set to involve the public in tracing the history of English words. Using a dedicated community space...
View ArticleNeemware's Mobile Marketing Platform Links App Developers Directly With Users
Neemware is a newly beta launched marketing platform for mobile developers which allows the integration of messaging, feedback forms, questions, alerts, promotions, and more, into mobile applications....
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Crowdsourced Translator VerbalizeIt Launches with $1.5M Initial Raise
VerbalizeIt, a company that delivers real-time access to human translators, has announced it raised $1.5 million in private equity funding in October from a consortium of angel investors. The company’s...
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TextMaster Raises €1.64M To Crowdsource Translation, Copywriting &...
France-based TextMaster, the crowdsourced platform for content translation, copywriting, and proofreading, has raised its first funding round: €1.64 million from the French VC fund, Alven Capital, and...
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Transfluent Translates for Unity, WordPress, Zendesk and Weibo — European...
At the Slush conference in Helsinki , Finnish firm Transfluent revealed deals with game engine provider Unity and WordPress.com VIP maker Automattic. They’ve also signed agreements with Zendesk and...
View ArticleAdobe Opens "Community: Translation Center "(ATC) to Crowdsource Opinion...
Adobe’s Globalization group is launching the “Adobe Translation Center” (ATC) at translate.adobe.com. For Adobe’s customers, ATC will be the single access point...
View ArticleTAUS Announces a Collaborative Translation Best Practices Website
TAUS, the translation innovation think tank and platform for industry-shared services, has launched a wiki site for best practices in collaborative translation. Collaborative...
View ArticleLionbridge to Acquire Crowdsourcing Services co. 'Virtual Solutions'
Lionbridge Technologies has acquired Virtual Solutions, a Cambridge and Camp Hill, Pa. provider of crowdsourcing services, for $3.6M million in cash. Lionbridge is also extending its...
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TranscribeMe Uses ASR + Transcribe Workforce
TranscribeMe applies both speech-recognition and a crowd-sourced platform to quickly provide accurate transcripts. Text is divided up into 15-20 second pieces and sent to a community of transcribers...
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New Swype Beta Uses Crowd-sourcing to Predict Texts
Nuance's latest Swype keyboard beta introduces Swype Living Language. It further personalizes your keyboard by analyzing your texts and providing predictions based on your most-used words. There's...
View ArticleHow Twitter Improves Search with Real-time Human Computation
[From the Twitter Engineering blog] An event occurs and people instantly come to Twitter to search for the event. So we need to teach our systems what these queries mean as quickly as we can...
View ArticleLionbridge Launches Enterprise Crowdsourcing Practice
Lionbridge Technologies has announced a suite of professional crowdsourcing offerings that enable enterprises to increase productivity, maximize workforce elasticity and reduce costs...
View ArticleMoravia Crowdsourcing Yields 30 Million Translated Words in 2012
Moravia's crowdsourcing platform fueled 30 million words in translated content last year. With more than 80 percent completed within 24 hours, the 2012 word count marks a record high for Moravia's...
View ArticleWordrobe Enables Games to Crowdsource NLP Research
A Groningen-based site where you play word games to help advance natural language pocessing.
View ArticleWebflakes Aims To Build A Lifestyle Web Destination With Crowdsourced...
A startup called Webflakes aims to bring some of the best international content on fashion, food, travel, and more to English-speaking readers with the help of volunteer translators. The site is...
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Translia Selected to Present the Crowdsourcing Game Translation at Largest...
Translia, a provider of online collaborative translation solutions, has been selected to present at the International Game Developers Association Summit (IGDA) 2013 in San Franciscofrom July 31 to...
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Smartling Partners With Taghreedat, the Arabic Digital Crowd-Sourcing...
Smartling, the US-based cloud-based enterprise translation management company, is partnering with Taghreedat, an international Arabic digital content crowd-sourcing community-building initiative and...
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Finnish Innopinion Will Source Healthcare Ideas for The Queen of Sweden
Finland-based Innopinion is using “gamified crowdsourcing” for running idea and feedback competitions and already had such clients as the Finnish Ministry of Transport and has now announced a...
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Viki Gains New Strategic Investors for Its Crowdsourced Subtitle Catalog
Viki, a startup based out of Singapore offers a combination of premium video supplemented by crowdsourced subtitles. It now has two new investors adding $24.3M in publicly-disclosed funding. Viki has...
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CrowdSourcing Data Extraction in Financial Scandal Using CrowdCrafting
In the Spanish political party financing scandal, documents were released to newspapers that required decoding from PDF scans of hand-written notes, etc.. As the data format was not machine readable,...
View ArticleWikipedia Has Enabled Mobile Editing
Wikipedia has launched support for editing content on mobile devices. The first version of mobile editing, which requires a Wikimedia account, is now available .
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Mancx: Paid-for Information for the LinkedIn Community
Launched in beta 3 weeks ago, Swedish start-up Mancx is targeting small business professionals who need precise, accurate information and data to help develop their businesses. Smalll online businesses...
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Video Subtitling Site Viki in $200M Deal With Rakuten
Rakuten’s $200 million acquisition of Viki — the video streaming site where users worldwide contribute subtitles to premium content — is a clear sign of how Rakuten wants to use digital content to...
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Mechanical Turkers Crowdsource a Huge Lexicon of Links Between Words and Emotion
Saif Mohammad and Peter Turney at the National Research Council Canada in Ottawa have unveiled a huge database of words and their associated emotions and polarity, which they have assembled quickly and...
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BuzzFeed to Crowdsource Translation Using Duolingo
BuzzFeed (viral content site) plans to launch French, Spanish and Portuguese homepages this month using language-learning site Duolingo to translate some of its most popular content. This will be a...
View ArticleMotaWord Launches a 'Collaborative Translation' Platform
US-based MotaWord is a new cloud-based crowdsourced translation platform it claims is the 'first collaborative human translation platform' providing services in over 80 languages.
View ArticleSix Reasons Why Crowdsourcing Game Localisation is a Bad Idea
Crowdsourcing is the new buzz word these days. Apparently people shouldn't be paid when their job is fun, and therefore both game translators and game developers are expected to work for free..
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Apple's Siri May Use Crowdsourcing to Answer Hard Questions
In future Apple’s Siri may use crowdsourcing as a method for answering certain questions. A recently published Apple patent outlined a system that would allow Siri to use crowdsourcing as an...
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Viki and Baidu to Subtitle Streaming Video Programming to China
Viki (Singapore-based video crowd-translating) will partner with Baidu (Chinese search engine) to translate and subtitle streaming films, videos and series into Chinese.
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The Drawbacks of Crowdsourced Translation
Critique of the crowdsourcing trend. Venture capitalists are apparently rushing to fund platforms or services based on community translations. Amara (crowd-sourced subtitle translation service for...
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The Problem With Serious Games Solved with Crowdsourcing
Serious games used for training suffer from the inability to generate new realistic content on an ongoing basis. Researchers at Bar-Ilan University in Israel have discovered a novel way of generating...
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