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Help Translate Twitter into Catalan, Afrikaans, Ukrainian, Greek, Czech or Basque

Twitter has been working on translating the site in as many languages as possible, for the past couple of years. The Twitter Translation Center, its crowdsourcing translation tool has been doing great so far, churning out translations for new languages in weeks. Now, Twitter is adding six more languages to the cente...

17 May 2012
06:21 GMT

Mojang Used Fans to Crowdsource Scrolls Legal Defense

The developers at Mojang, the indie developer that is behind the hit video game Minecraft, have announced that their engagement with the fan community goes beyond talking about the video game and about its future. Carl Manneh, who is the chief executive officer at Mojang, has told Gamasutra that, “They say we&...

7 February 2012
16:41 GMT

Pentagon Plans to Create Video Games to Crowd Test Weapon Systems

A solicitation from the Department of Defense of the United States suggests that the institution plans to contract companies to create a number of video games that can be used to refine the way a variety of weapons systems work and eliminate errors and bugs from them.The document coming from the Pentagon says that th...

20 January 2012
10:46 GMT

NAVIGON traffic4all Arrives on Windows Phone

One of the latest mobile applications to become available for download on handsets running under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system is NAVIGON traffic4all, which is meant to provide users with info on current traffic. The mobile application has been designed to provide users with details on current ...

10 October 2011
03:42 GMT

Al Gore Says Video Games Can Create Real World Change

Al Gore is best known for having invented the Internet during the '80's (a statement which is not factually correct) but after tackling important subjects like climate change the former vice president and almost president of the United States of America is now talking about video games and about how they ca...

21 June 2011
15:11 GMT

Security Experts Advise Caution over EU Plans to Crowdsource Cyber Crime Fighting

Security researchers are worried that Europol's plans to involve citizens in cyber crime fighting might lead to risky cyber vigilantism.Yesterday, Europol's Director Rob Wainwright revealed plans to create an European cyber crime centre which will centralize reports about illegal online activities gathered ...

17 December 2010
10:26 GMT

Lingotek Driving Brand Engagement with Crowdsourcing Translation

Crowdsourcing can easily break all of the limits associated with the traditional translation process, high costs, restricted resources, the inherent errors caused by the discrepancies between linguistic skills and domain knowledge. I had a chance to chat with Rob Vandenberg, President and CEO of Lingotek recently, a...

30 October 2010
07:24 GMT

Waze Gets Holiday Version, Starts Holiday Treasure Hunt

Waze, the free navigation app based on crowdsourcing, has just got better, as the company announced a new special Holiday Version of the software solution. Along with it, waze also put in place a holiday treasure hunt, which started on Thursday and is set to end on January 1, and which requires for users to search f...

18 December 2009
02:48 GMT

Wikipedia Volunteers Quitting in Increasing Numbers

News about Wikipedia's impending demise have come and gone, but the world's largest encyclopedia seems to be enduring. This won't last for long, according to a researcher from Spain who points at the dwindling number of volunteer editors as a clear sign that the site is headed to the dust bin. The stud...

23 November 2009
11:58 GMT

Facebook Wants to Patent User Translations

Facebook is currently the largest social network in the world and has held this title for more than a year now. For a long period of time its international growth and presence far outweighed that in the US, its home market and, despite becoming the largest social network in the US earlier this year as well, most of t...

27 August 2009
07:14 GMT

Weekend Reading: Dawn of War II and Crowdsourcing

Developers need to get rid of the demo. A lot of people, including myself, have been saying that game developers and publishers need to put together better, longer, more creative demos, in order to make sure that players know what they're shelling 60 dollars for when purchasing a game. Still, developers seem to ...

7 February 2009
05:01 GMT


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