Posts on ‘November 3rd, 2008’

Via the New York Times
By JANET RAE-DUPREE
Published: November 1, 2008
BY its very nature, innovation is inefficient. While blockbusters do emerge, few of the new products or processes that evolve from innovative thinking ultimately survive the test of time. During periods of economic growth, such inefficiencies are chalked up as part of the price of forging [...]

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November 1, 2008 - 4:01 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski

I’ve said it twice before already, but I’ll reiterate: This is the YouTube election. Yes, Twitter has played some part. Reputable bloggers on all sides of the fence, too. But YouTube has been the glue that’s bound this big beautiful [...]

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ovember 1, 2008 - 5:03 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski

It was this past Thursday, in our review of another review service, when I figured that Google should seriously consider generating automated translations for YouTube clips to build on its relatively young captions capability. Well, today it began to do [...]

Via Gerry McGovern
It often seems that the primary purpose of localization is to create unreadable English that is cheap to translate into unreadable German.
A great many organizations do not believe content has any real value. They see it is as a cost, a necessary evil. Thus, they want to produce content for the lowest possible [...]

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November 2, 2008 - 1:53 pm PDT - by Brian Wallace 6 Comments

In a time of stock market crisis, bailouts and a weak dollar, LinkedIn still raises $22.7 million in funding. How? It’s a relevant site with a number of useful resources for professionals and businesses. Meanwhile, the launch [...]