When it comes to Facebook, should we just be grateful we can communicate at all?

As most of you by now know, Facebook has the ability to translate one’s sentences or content from one language to another.  Public content can now easily be transferred into the user’s language of choice.  How?  Facebook’s feature uses the newly integrated Bing translator. Anyone who has played around with the Facebook translations or, for that matter, web translations of any kind, know...

Facebook responsible for drugs/alcohol, antisocial & agressive behaviors….lock up your kids!

The article below landed in my Inbox earlier today as one of those generic emails, likely from something I inadvertently subscribed to.  It’s not the article is bad, it is simply that the statistics it is based on seem way off to me and I hear my old stats teacher in my head telling me it is very difficult to link a behavior to an outcome like this article does;   Facebook Is Turning...

How to get work as a freelancer translator from the President of the #1 Translation Company in Cincinnati!

Finding myself with a little time to read last night, I spent about an hour looking for new blogs or websites related to translation or linguistics.  A common topic in several blogs was advice on how to get started in this industry.  Naturally, everyone has their own tips and tricks for finding their clients, and everyone gets started somewhere.  It is not easy to break into this industry; it...

Does SAIC’s machine translation solution mean the end for translators?

I have been wanting to post this newswire ever since it came out. Please read and then post your own comments at the bottom!  MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) [NYSE: SAI] today announced its linguistics technology offering, with the industry’s first hybrid machine translation (HMT) solution. The linguistics technology...

What topic would make you come to Cincinnati for a week or two?

Global2Local will be featured this weekend in Cleveland OH at the 6th City Tech Fest, set to go at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  Naturally, we are excited about the event and love the networking opportunities as well as the energy these kinds of festivals contain.  This particular tech fest is boasting the attendance of 150 small businesses as well as investors and representatives from large...