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Great idea for a new Start-Up website

This idea comes from my past and actual working experiences.

I’m working on a multi-national enterprise and before this; I worked on the Roaming Dept of a cell phone company here in Argentina.

Everyone here use English as a tool, but sometimes, the best way to communicate what you want to say, is in your own language. So, we often receive messages in Italian, Portuguese, French and so on.

There are a lot of we-based tools for text translation. But you may know as well as I do; that they are very poor quality; and that’s because a machine is in charge of that translation.

SO:

I was thinking on the creation of a world-wide collaborative community, where each member can translate certain texts from-and-to their native language.

This system is better than the usual machine-based; because the translations are going to be made by a human person; who knows a lot of terms, slang and can give a context to the text, in order to give it a more meaningful translation.

For instance: Continuar leyendo Great idea for a new Start-Up website…


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Totally Fake: lonelygirl

Yes. As you may know, the crap over YouTube is reaching uninimaginable (is that a word?) levels.

One of the most viewed and subscribed channels is the one belonging to a “teenager” nicknamed lonelygirl15.

First of all: there’s nothing great about their videos. Take a look at this:

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Poor Pluto
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What? Yes. THAT is getting more than hundreds of thousands views; thousands of comments. Unbelievable.

At least, you can think: “Okay, nice thing is happening to someone who is not faking”.

WRONG! Take a look to what Business Week have to say.

“Based on comments from media and talent agency executives, the videos appear to be produced by a small coterie of creative types. They have had discussions with at least one major media company. Agents are pursuing them as well. (They should be aware that in real life Bree’s name is not Bree.)”

So, if you were considering subscribing to her channel… give it a second thought.


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