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Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive | Epic
The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," the first music video played on MTV, applies as well to online streaming services now as it did to radio in the '80s. MySpace, rumored to be on the verge of purchasing the free music streaming site imeem, is struggling to keep up with its own payments to music copyright holders, according to a top News Corp executive — a problem that has plagued every other licensed free music service. The digital music doubters could be right with the contention that advertising revenue can’t cover the costs of licensing music.Good Question! The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Ven
Editor’s note : Guest writer Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin , an online real estate broker that seeks to give consumers the information and tools once limited to real estate agents. Previously, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software , which had a public offering in 2002 but is now part of Oracle.
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Buyers Join Forces to Tackle the Translation Quality Conundrum
We've written extensively about translation quality from the buyer's perspective, arguing that companies purchasing translation services should assume a more proactive role in defining their requirements, developing their own metrics, and communicating with suppliers about how they intend to evaluate their performance. Last Friday, we convened approximately 30 delegates from the industry's largest buyer organizations for a Common Sense Advisory colloquium hosted by Google in Mountain View, California. In our earlier research on buyer-defined translation quality (" Buyer-Defined Translation Quality ," Aug08), we revealed the findings of interviews with 28 companies that translate hundreds of millions of words into multiple languages each year, most of which spend in excess of US$1 million on translation services annually. The report answered the question, “What does translation quality mean?”WinterGreen Research came out with a 668-page report last month about the machine translation market.
$2 Billion Machine Translation Market - How Did WinterGreen Rese
In a February 2007 report on multicultural marketing , we highlighted the importance of customer relationship management (CRM) software in improving the quality of interactions with multilingual clients and prospects. Last month, machine translation supplier Language Weaver and newly-minted translation management system (TMS) provider Sajan announced multilingual support for RightNow Technologies' CRM solution at the latter's 2009 Summit. CRM software can do a lot to improve how well a company knows and treats its customers. At its simplest, it can automate responses to common queries, suggest responses to less usual ones, filter out spam, ask respondents about the appropriateness of the answer they receive, and route messages based on the skill set of individual customer service representatives. More evolved systems tailor interactions to individual or demographic preferences.
CRM Provider Partners for Multilingual Customer Care
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Open IIS Help , which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup , Common Administrative Tasks , and About Custom Error Messages .
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with fellow Pittsburgher, twitter pal and social media maven Michelle Chmielewski , otherwise known as the The Observing Participant .
Respecting the Three C’s of Crowdsourcing « Jason Spector
Report from the 50th ATA conference « Musings from an overworked
Opening Ceremony of the 50th ATA Conference I have finally worked my way through all the mail, bills, errands, etc. that piled up while I was traveling to Myrtle Beach and NYC.
This week, “unfriend” was chosen as the New Oxford American Dictionary’s Word of the Year. In multilingual circles, this quickly prompted many — including us — to ask the question, “How do you translate that?” According to major media outlets (including the Telegraph , MSNBC , and many others), the term originated with Facebook. So, we went straight to Facebook to see how these community translation veterans rendered this celebrated word into other languages.
The Word of the Year and How to Translate It
Machine and Human Translation 5: Self-help
In the report of the BBC's experiment in conferencing with MT (March 24 post), there’s an example given of the output from Google Translate:
Within a few weeks, according to a Microsoft spokesperson, Bing will begin integrating Wolfram Alpha into its search engine, allowing users to solve math problems and see other numerical information. Bing's Wolfram Alpha answers provide a variety of graphical and numerical information, which could prove useful to not only to users in businesses and academia, but also to students who really need to finish their math homework before "Lost." While Wolfram Alpha is primarily geared toward mathematical pursuits such as equation-solving, it can also offer answers to questions on topics of interest to consumers such as BMI and nutrition.
Microsoft Bing Now Features Facebook, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha Acc
The War For the Web - O'Reilly Radar
On Friday, my latest tweet was automatically posted to my Facebook news feed, as always. But this time, Tom Scoville noticed a difference : the link in the posting was no longer active.The immigration debate has long been preoccupied with illegal aliens. But what about foreign-born professionals seeking green cards who stand in line and play by the rules? A new report by Stuart Anderson of the National Foundation for American Policy says the U.S. is mishandling this important human resource. A former official at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Mr. Anderson focuses on foreign nationals from India, who fill nearly half of the annual quota for H1-B temporary work visas.
The Other Immigrants - WSJ.com
Women Earn Less Than Men, Especially at the Top - Economix Blog
In most jobs, the gap between men’s and women’s earnings narrows greatly when you adjust for factors like career path and experience. But at the top of the income scale — jobs paying more than $100,000 — the salary gap between equally qualified men and women is still vast. That’s the takeaway from a vast trove of data being released by PayScale , a company that tracks self-reported salary data. Millions of Web-surfers share their compensation data with PayScale.com, usually with the goal of finding out if their pay is comparable to that of other workers with similar experience and credentials.She’s A Thoroughly Modern Muslim « Qausain
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