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Music: Too Expensive to Be Free, Too Free to Be Expensive. Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity. 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. Below he shares the best questions from investors during a recent fund raising. For startups, Christmas comes in November. Partners come back from vacation in September and deals start closing a few months later; since the credit crisis deferred fund-raising for most of the past year, November 2009 will probably end up being especially busy. Redfin is one of the companies that just closed a round.
Help. Friends. 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. $2 Billion Machine Translation Market - How Did WinterGreen Rese. CRM Provider Partners for Multilingual Customer Care. 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. Language Weaver previewed its integration into the RightNow Agent Desktop through the TranslateNow button.
Report from the 50th ATA conference « Musings from an overworked. Posted by Jill (@bonnjill) in ATA, Random musings, Translation.
Trackback 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. It didn’t help that I immediately got slammed with work (not that I am complaining about that!!!) The Word of the Year and How to Translate It. Machine translation and freelance translators: a difficult relat. 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: Dowry Allowathb of Khartoum, Sudan, submitted a comment in Arabic on the topic "If you could say one thing to the world, what would it be?
" which came out in English as: That the budget of one war enough to satisfy the hungry Africa, not to mention the budget arm of one of the major powers. Microsoft Bing Now Features Facebook, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha Acc. By Nicholas Kolakowski | Posted 2009-11-13 Email Print Microsoft announced a broad range of new functionality for Bing, its search engine, on Nov. 11.
In addition to incorporating results from Wolfram Alpha, a self-described computational engine that provides a definitive numerical answer to a search query, the revamped Bing offers a more robust video page, with feeds from MSN Video, Hulu and ABC, and more intensive search in categories such as local events and cities. In a sign of the increased importance of social networking to corporations such as Microsoft and Google, Bing has also incorporated Facebook and Twitter into its search features. Microsoft Bing Now Features Facebook, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha Access. The War For the Web. 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. It turns out that a lot of other people had noticed this too. Mashable wrote about the problem on Saturday morning: Facebook Unlinks Your Twitter Links. if you’re posting web links (Bit.ly, TinyURL) to your Twitter feed and using the Twitter Facebook app to share those updates on Facebook too, none of those links are hyperlinked. The Other Immigrants. Women Earn Less Than Men, Especially at the Top - Economix Blog. United States Claims #1 Spot For First Time As World's Top Count. Land Mass and Population by Country. Explorations of real-world traffic. Alisa Miller: Why we know less than ever about the world.
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Terminologia. Various stuff. Predictions for 2010: Globalization Technology, Services, and Bu. New Media Business Models. A social CRM product blueprint – XeeSM.