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I'm the CEO of 1-800-Translate, a translation and localization firm offering a full suite of multilingual communications services to leading international businesses, growing our business one client (or more) at a time. I've been doing this for 14 years.
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Circle of Trust: Editing TranslationFebruary 3rd, 2012
Language Secrets Detected with Ultra-SoundFebruary 1st, 2012
Learn a Language, Work for Free Part 3 With New Luddite Lite™!January 30th, 2012
Learn a Language, Work for Free, Part 2 Limburger Cheese ProtocalJanuary 27th, 2012
Learn a Language, Work for Free: Part 1January 25th, 2012
Its tough to buy a translation when you don’t speak the language. Correction. It’s easy to buy, its just tough to know what you bought. Now you can always hire someone else to check it for you, like another language service provider, or do a language managment thing for youself to tell you if its [...]
Linguists are using the latest medical equipment to save languages. By using the kind of portable ultrasound device used to monitor the health of unborn children, researchers are able to see and record the shape of people’s throats as they speak. This new field technology has allowed scientists like Amanda Miller of Ohio State to [...]
Last couple of posts I’ve been ranting at the prince of crowd-sourcing, Luis Von Ahn, and raving about his plan to replace professional translators with language students. By providing free language lessons, his new site Duolingo will lure unsuspecting second-language wannabes onto a fun and free language study site. He’ll slip paid translation into their [...]
Learn a language and translate the Web for free is the latest plan hatched by Luis Von Ahn, inventor of reCAPTCHA and master of getting millions to work for him for free. Don’t know the guy? Let me introduce you to your boss. You work for Von Ahn every time you complete a web form reCAPTCHA, [...]
“Luis Von Ahm claims he can translate Wikipedia – all 2 billion words of it – from English into Spanish in just 80 hours. What’s more, he will not have to pay anyone to do the work.” Von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon computer scientist and serial internet entrepreneur, plans to unleash hordes of language students, armed [...]
