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TED Embraces Social Translation

Posted on May 14, 2009

My friends at TED have launched an exciting new project today, the TED Open Translation Project. It's a powerful system to allow the social translation of their video content. This tool demonstrates the state of the art in social translation on the web today, and I think there are a lot of lessons in the tool and thinking behind it for anyone who hopes to make the polyglot internet more comprehensible, and for anyone thinking about online cooperation.I'm aware that most people think of translation as roughly as interesting as developing Linux device drivers - necessary, but far from sexy. My...

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