Common Sense Advice about Machine Translation and Content
You'd need to be living on the moon if you still don't get it about how data quality impacts machine translation quality (actually, every...
The Dublin Windows Phone Code Camp: A Localization Debrief
I attended the Windows Phone (WP) code camp at Microsoft in Dublin, an event organized by the Microsoft Ireland Development and Platform Evangelism (DPE) team and...
The Berlin Wall of Code
Too soon?
Hardly. I took that photograph at the Google Developer Day in Berlin in November 2011. Google runs these events globally. The event itself...
Google Translate on Android: Mobile Translation Comes of Age
Really taken by this little tidbit from the Android folks, released as part of the 10th billionth Android app download celebration, giving us insight...
Google Translate is Finished. Again.
We've heard this before. This time it's somewhat truer. Google Translate itself (http://translate.google.com/) isn't finished, but the API allowing third-party developers to use Google...
The Future of Web Translation: Haters Gonna Hate
Just lurrve this TEDxCMU talk by Luis von Ahn of CMU called Duolingo: The Next Chapter in Human Computation. It's all about smart people...
The Story of #IMS211: Twitter Event
A shout-out for #ims211. How to describe? A Twitter conversation between fanbois, students, developers, journalists, and others on the subject of games, instigated by...
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I work in user experience (UX). If you don't know what that is, then check out this website. Fundamental to UX is understanding how...
Standards, Interoperability, Popcorn
These standards initiative thingies are like buses. You wait for ages and then two of them come along together.
Following the er, demise of LISA...