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[Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] How Language Learners are Translating the Web 1 year 2 months ago #583

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We’ve all been there. You finish volume 13 of your favorite manga about a young girl coming of age with the assistance of her talking cat, who falls in love with a boy that’s also a dragon, all while saving the world from a dragon that’s also a talking cat. You go online to order volume 14 but for some reason, Amazon doesn’t stock it. You trawl the Internet looking for another vendor. Several sleepless nights later you find it on a Japanese website. You are overjoyed until you realize the whole site is in Japanese and you can’t figure out how to order the book. With no way to quickly and cheaply have the website translated, you reconcile yourself to learning Japanese after all.

[Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] How Language Learners are Translating the Web 1 year 2 months ago #584

Steven Yuan OFFLINE Fresh Boarder Posts: 13 Karma: 1	Oh goodness the introduction paragraph is priceless! I must say unashamedly that I can relate to that.
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[Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] How Language Learners are Translating the Web 1 year 2 months ago #587

David Bratvold OFFLINE Administrator Reporter Posts: 42 Thank you received: 1 Karma: 0	Steven, agreed. Ville has a way with words. And although I haven't tried Duolingo yet, it's purpose sound brilliant: Using people's desire to learn another language to get text translated. It's so simple & brilliant, how has it not been thought of before?
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Re: [Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] How Language Learners are Translating the Web 1 year 2 months ago #588

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Well, just like how using captcha for digitalizing books wasn't something thought of until recent years, now that everyone is getting used to the idea of crowds, things like translation (which is usually a mountain of work for one person) becomes work that can obviously be crowdsourced.

I think the question now is, what is the next big thing that can be crowdsourced based on specific needs? Translation, book digitization are good, but what's next?

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[Crowd Leader: Ville Miettinen] How Language Learners are Translating the Web 1 year 2 months ago #594

Nicolle Keogh OFFLINE Fresh Boarder Posts: 2 Karma: 0	Alexander, when you say "specific needs" I think of individual physical & mental handicaps, which I think would be a really interesting topic to explore as an editorial piece in regards to crowd sourced innovations. These discussions are facilitating great ideas, let's keep them going!
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