Translating with the Crowd

Crowd Sourcing

When a freelancer like me gets a long-drawn-out translation job from a client with a cockeyed deadline, it gets impossible for me or for any other freelance translator to finish the job on his own and on time. So what’s the solution? How can you get rid of the ticking time bomb and finish the job at the expected time? The solution is crowdsourcing! Crowdsourcing companies throw up translation challenges, to a wide range of people that handle certain parts of the translation work. CrowdThinkTank first employs the power of the crowd to get the job done and then checks every word on a machine based translator. If need be, it also uses the power of crowd for polishing the text, checking facts and to get rid of any insignificant combinations of words &/or sequences. Freelance translation services offered through online collaboration makes it easier to manage any large team projects when compared to other traditional approaches.

Qwiki – The New Multimedia Information Experience

Freelance Services

Future of search & information is here: “Qwiki”. A disruptive new technology platform and still in alpha phase, Qwiki is destined to change the way people search for information on the web. It blends in the text, audio, video & images in a logical and ordered manner and gives out the visual results, almost like a dynamic movie of whatever you search for. For a lay man Qwiki is going to be like a search engine+Wikipedia+An intelligent computer that makes videos for you on the run and gives out insightful commentary about the searched terms. Whether you are planning for a movie in your city or looking for info on freelance translation services, Qwiki will make your search experience more human. Designed & developed by Louis Monier, the founder of Alta Vista and Doug Imbruce, Qwiki recently won the “Startup Battlefield” Award at TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in San Francisco. So, prepare yourself for a new game changing technology that will make your web more human for information uptake.

Overcome the Barriers of Language and Culture with Translation Services

Freelance Translation Services

It would be criminal in today’s globalised world to not leverage the power of emerging markets in the developing countries to get the overall competitive advantage. But the premise mentioned above has a slight problem: ‘Language Barriers’. The translation challenges that the companies face everyday is crippling the business opportunities for multinationals. And since, English is not the primary language in the countries that figure on the map of these multinationals, therefore translation as a means of international communication, has become necessary to tap the unthought-of potential of these markets globally.

Some freelance translation services include translation, proofreading, interpretation, copywriting, voice-over, subtitling and project management. This makes it easy for the companies to target the consumers any where in the world which eventually leads to market expansion and more profits for the company. Language barriers are not an excuse any more and it’s the right time for you to look for business potential in foreign shores to boost your profits.

Crowd sourcing with CrowdThinkTank

CrowdThinkTank

An idea is what separates a winner from the loser. At CrowdThinkTank we make sure that you end up on a winning side in ways that are faster, better, and significantly more economical than others and we do this by helping you to harness the power of ‘crowd’ to solve your critical problems. At CrowdThinkTank you’ll get a new way of working and thinking leading to several new innovative ideas. Some of our erstwhile think tank challenges included design of logos for got2hav1.com & our own Crowd Think Tank website, article writing and viral marketing challenges for CTT and lastly the design challenge for a cattle property. Theses challenges had people coming up with creative ideas from all over the world and the final selected concepts were uploaded on to the website with the promised award. The user-centric approach at CrowdThinkTank facilitates rapid qualitative results at lower costs, leading to an eventual win-win situation for everyone.