East Coast vs. West Coast 2.0
In the 90′s we had Notorious B.I.G. vs. Tupac leading the East versus West feud. In today’s tech culture, we have website companies duking it out in the Silicon Valley vs. Silicon Alley feud. Staff at...
View ArticleText to Speech Goes Social with The Social Radio
The new startup company, The Social Radio, brings the functionality of text to speech to Twitter, allowing you to listen to your twitter feed as if it was a radio broadcast. Right now, The Social...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s ‘State of the Union’ Gets Crowdsourced
The recent Presidential State of the Union received special attention this week from one company, NewsHour. NewsHour asked its viewers and web followers to utilize Universal Subtitles, a free video...
View ArticleTwitter Selling Out to Censorship Pressure?
In a controversial step, Twitter announced its new censorship plan to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws. This comes as quite a big shock and disappointment to...
View ArticleTwitter Adds Arabic Language
Twitter announced last week that they were working on adding Right to Left languages, starting with Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Hebrew and Urdu to their website by this Spring. These additions are thanks...
View ArticleTranslation Cloud Releases API for Developers In Its Updated Version 2.5
Translation Cloud, http://www.translationcloud.net, the application created by Translation Services USA, is an automated system for real time translations via a crowdsourced community of translators....
View ArticleGlobili App Makes Translation For Businesses And Tourists Easy
The brainchild of MidPoint/Fountain Square/Bunbury developer, Bill Donabedian, Globili makes it possible for anyone with a cell phone to receive a free translation. The app works with either text...
View ArticleAckuna Provides An Open Platform For The Community To Help Share Translations
Ackuna breaks new ground to become the leading website to offer free community-shared translations. Free translation services have long been left to Google Translate and other online translation tools....
View ArticleVolunteers Across The Middle East Are Compiling A Web 2.0 Dictionary In Arabic
Image Credit: Gulf News With an increasing demand for online content in Arabic, and the language seeing impressive growth rates on sites like Twitter and Wikipedia, a new project aims to do its part to...
View ArticleFacebook To The Rescue
Facebook may help save dying language Most of the people who spoke the language Arapesh when anthropologist Lise Dobrin conducted field work in Papua New Guinea about 15 years ago have died. Their...
View ArticleOnly 1 Week Left for the Ackuna Translation Contest!
There’s only one week left until the 2014 Ackuna ‘Big App’ Translation Contest is over…If you haven’t started yet, there’s enough time to still catch up. But you need to hurry! There are still a...
View ArticleThe Selfie: A List of its Most Annoying Variations
It was the Oxford Dictionaries’ 2013 Word of the Year, just got added to Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary‘s 11th edition, and has shown no signs of slowing down: the selfie. The term selfie was...
View ArticleRanks NL Helps You Easily Create SEO Friendly Content
For website or blog owners, the number one concern (besides coming up with fresh content) is making sure their websites are as search engine friendly as possible. This practice, more commonly...
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