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21st Century Benchmarks

CERN
GridCafe: The place for everybody to learn about grid computing http://www.gridcafe.org/

Ning
Second Life Olympic Games 2012 London

SL London
http://www.sllondon.com/
http://sllondon.blogspot.com/

Association of Virtual Worlds
http://www.associationofvirtualworlds.com/

Verbalis Translation Services in Second Life

Immersive Workspaces

TAUS Data Association

Virtual Use Case: Translation

IdeaBlob.com: Translation
Win monetary support for business ideas

Best Low-Cost Web 2.0 Benchmark Mix: Wiki + Wordfast 6 / VLTM + Cloudo.com + Translate.net

National Virtual Translation Center
http://www.nvtc.gov/

Teamness - Free for life: 15 Web 2.0 projects, 30 members, 200 MB space
http://www.teamness.com/

Common Sense Advisory Consulting
Collaborative Translation

Ning
Workplace Learning 2.0
Classroom 2.0

Google Books
Book List: Collaborative Translation
Book List: Blog Marketing

Google Trends
Collaboration, Wiki, Blog, Convergence, Translation

Google News (install Google Alerts here) Collaborative Translation
Collaboration Translation

Blog List
Audio Transcription Technology

Web 3.0
Semantic Web

Wiki-Based
English Style Guide
Wiki-Translation.com

ProZ
Collaborative Translation

IBM Forecast
The Virtual Workplace
IBM Shifts Focus To Cloud Computing with New Services

Best Practices - Lionbridge
Virtual Commuting
Reasons for No Sample Translations
Proofreader's Error Log Protocol:
Translation Quality Index

Lingotek - LingoPoint
http://www.lingotek.com/EN/resources.php

Worldwidelexicon

dotSUB

TAUS
The End of Old School Localization Thinking
ProZ Discussion
Helping Google Help the World

Google Translation Center
Blogoscoped.com
Gigaom.com
Blog.philippahammond.net
Role Diagram

Launchpad.net
https://launchpad.net/+tour/translation

TranslateMedia
New collaborative workflow

Asynchrone Meeting

Blog
Blogging Toolbox
Blogging Tools

Wiki
Wiki Toolbox
Wiki Tools

Synchrone Meeting

Micro-Blogging
Jane Hart Directory
FeedMyApp
Listio
Open Source (Twitter)

Instant Messenger
- Skype
- Oovoo
- MeGlobe
- Meebo

Online Conference
- DimDim for free web-based live conferencing up to 20 people

Click for your login-process to free instant desktop collaboration serving up to 20 people.

- Yugma Skype Edition
- WizIQ Virtual Classroom

Synchrone Author<>Translator Collaboration
- Google Docs
- Zoho
- CoWord
- CoPowerPoint
- InstaColl
- InstaColl for Skype
- Live-Documents
- Dragon Naturally Speaking 10

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- Google Lively
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James O'Reilly replied to James O'Reilly's discussion 'QUALC | Quality Assurance Network for Adult Learning Centers' in the group ESL Teaching

QUALC FINAL Quality Criteria & Self-Assessment Adult Learning Centres 12-2008 http://www.scribd.com/doc/22191610/QUALC-FINAL-Quality-Criteria-Self-Assessment-Adult-Learning-Centers-12-2008

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James O'Reilly added a discussion to the group ESL Teaching

Virtual Andragogic Language Learning

How does self-directed learning match with andragogical learning? For Adult Second Life Newbies... http://www.dius.gov.uk/~/media/publications/G/getting_online_second_life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_education Ning: Adult Learning http://...

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October 27

James O'Reilly added a discussion to the group ESL Teaching

Mixed Reality Presentations - [ZONE] Touch Screen Media Television with Searchable YouTube and Flickr

What's special about this in-world media TV? You can substitute the uploading of Powerpoint texture slides into Second Life for L$10 each, and stream a Flickr slideshow into Second Life for presentation purposes for free. When in standby mode, th...

October 25

James O'Reilly added a discussion to the group ESL Teaching

QUALC | Quality Assurance Network for Adult Learning Centers

Access to learning opportunities and recognition of learning achievements is essential for all citizens for their daily life, working life, and life within the community. In the revised Lisbon strategy the European Commission calls for Europe to ...

October 23

James O'Reilly replied to James O'Reilly's discussion 'Grid Computing - Language Grid'

Bid for your grid - The GridEcon project has developed a platform which turns grid computing resources into commodities which can be bought and sold like stock. http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002050

October 22

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October 21

Sietse Sterrenburg is now a member of Collaborative Translation

Welcome Them!

October 21

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3DXplorer - Browser-Based

3DXplorer is an online platform for designing interactive 3D web pages and virtual worlds including 3D spaces and 3D objects, in which web visitors can walk, visualize objects and interact as easily as they navigate through HTML pages, but in a 3D...

October 20

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October 20

James O'Reilly replied to James O'Reilly's discussion 'Teacher In Second Life Trademark Dispute Sets Up Education Outpost in OpenSimulator' in the group ESL Teaching

Open Source Virtual Worlds A place to address the use of Open Source technologies, and furthergoing technologies and processes for virtual worlds, e.g. OpenSimulator, Browser-Based 3D Virtual Worlds & Websites, Grid Computing, and more. http://sec...

October 20

James O'Reilly replied to James O'Reilly's discussion 'Augmented Reality Language Learning – Virtual Worlds Meets m-Learning' in the group ESL Teaching

Building Mixed Reality Educational Apps for Second Life This group is focused on building and creating augmented, hybrid, and mixed reality applications for Second Life and Virtual World educational settings and contingencies, especially mobile on...

October 20

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Language Learning with New Media and Games http://www.lingualgamers.com/thesis/augmented_reality_games.html Augmented Reality Markup Language proposed http://gamesalfresco.com/2009/09/22/mobilizy-proposes-augmented-reality-mark-up-language-to-the-...

October 17

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Google Translator Toolkit

An introduction to Google Translator Toolkit, a free, online, translation app that helps translators bring content into their language faster and better. http://translate.google.com/toolkit

October 16

Pamela Arraras is now a member of Collaborative Translation

Welcome Them!

October 13

In Poppe and Kip Yellowjacket are now friends

October 11

Mees VanKleur, T. Wehrli and Kip Yellowjacket joined In Poppe's group

Collaborative Translation Projects

For the exchange of ideas & discussions regarding the worldwide networking and outsourcing of sustainably paid collaborative translation projects.

October 9

3 discussions started by James O'Reilly were featured

October 9

A group by In Poppe was featured

Collaborative Translation Projects

For the exchange of ideas & discussions regarding the worldwide networking and outsourcing of sustainably paid collaborative translation projects.

October 9

The Book of Collaborative Translation, Interpreting & Subtitling

Feel free to build along in the Table of Contents, as well as to contribute and share your knowledge, skills, and experiences towards this endeavor. As soon as some significant body of structural knowledge and case studies have unfolded, the contributions will be imported into an appropriate Wiki framework for further road-mapping and content delivery.

The basic assumptions guiding this social group are summarized in the following links (translation as an art and as a science, now to be collaboratively converged). It is encouraged to become knowledgeable about these up-to-date and state-of-art benchmarks describing the situational contingencies happening now. Please check the 21st Century bookmark links in the left column for further updates.

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SWOT Analysis (strength, weakness, opportunity, threat)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWOT_analysis
Davos Annual Meeting 2008 - Power of Collaborative Innovation
http://snurl.com/4d584
Common Sense Advisory Consulting
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4069269/Structuring-Collaborative-Translation-20-Less-Delivery-Time-Better-Quality
TAUS
http://www.scribd.com/doc/4392144/The-End-of-Old-School-Localization-Thinking
IBM: Virtual Workplace
http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/03/25/ibm-virtual-worlds-1q-2008-roundup/
Lionbridge Quality Best Practice
http://advice.cio.com/lionbridge/v_commuting_the_next_frontier_in_global_workforce_management
Lingotek: Leader in Collaborative Translation Technology - Enhanced Growth
Lingotek recently received a series B round of funding from In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment firm of the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, Flywheel Ventures, and Canopy Ventures.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/lingotek-appoints-robert-vandenberg-president/story.aspx?guid={D98560C8-4F95-444B-8371-E9F34DD2C966}&dist=hppr
Google Translation Center
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-08-04-n48.html
Grid Computing for Language Translation: Language Grid
http://langrid.nict.go.jp/en/index.html
Google Trends
Collaboration, Wiki, Blog, Convergence, Translation

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Grid Computing - Language Grid 2 Replies

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Case Study: Obama & Web 2.0

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Facebook On Its Way to Being A Social Superpower / Facebook Acquires FriendFeed (Social Network Aggregator) 3 Replies

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How to Use Twitter Micro-Blogging for Translation Purposes 11 Replies

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German Television Provider ZDF Deploys New 3D Virtual & Mixed Reality TV Studio

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Instant Collaborative Translation 7 Replies

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Event & Meeting Guidelines

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Second Life Olympic Games 2012 London 2 Replies

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How funny it is...

Started by DERRAS Wahid in Sample Title Apr 30.

How to use DotSUB for collaboratively translating texts

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Web-based Customer Relationship Management CRM 2.0 2 Replies

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Action Plan for Continuous Improvement 1 Reply

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Archive for Files 1 Reply

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Call for Case Studies: Meetings in Virtual Worlds

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Will Social Networks Become the New Inbox? 1 Reply

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Coolaborate Synchronously Online : Writing and Grammar on WiZiQ with Nellie Deutsch

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Collaborative Web 2.0 Business Planning for Translation Services 1 Reply

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WikiTranslate.com - Collaborative Translation Tool

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Collaborative Translation Project Requests 2.0 (freelance) 1 Reply

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Collaborative Mobile Laptop/Netbook Translating

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The Dawn of Mixed Reality

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The ISO 9001 Family - Global Management Standards

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ISO 9001 Certified - National University of Singapore in Second Life

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What is MeGlobe.com

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Immersive Workspaces

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Do You Speak English?

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Wikis in Plain English

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Second Life Language Translation (3D Virtual Chat using a HUD Tool)

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Blog Posts

Master of Arts dissertation on Translation Studies available for downloading

Hi!

This is my first contribution for this Collaborative Translation Social Networking.

For whom it may concern, here follows a link to my Master of Arts dissertation on Education and Information Technologies applied to Translation Studies.

The main text is in Portuguese, but the abstract below is in English as for providing you with a glimpse of the content. Hope it is useful!

Title: Development of New Disciplines on Computer-Assisted Translation: a Proposal to Optimize the Introduction of… Continue

Posted by Kelson dos Santos Araujo on June 26, 2009 at 9:41pm — 1 Comment

Webheads in Collaborative Translation

Some of the translator- and language-education-minded within Collaborative Translation are also found among the Webheads. Who and what are Webheads?

Webheads is a world-wide, cross-cultural, and vibrant online-community of educators with an open enrollment for anyone who wants to join. Webheads in Action was created in 1997-8 by Vance Stevens, in Abu Dhabi, Maggi Doty in Germany, and Michael Coghlan, in Australia, for ESL learners and facilitators as a student-teacher community.

It has expande… Continue

Posted by James O'Reilly on April 25, 2009 at 10:00pm — 1 Comment

Flickr Mashup is Activated

If you use Flickr.com, you can now add photos to Collaborative Translation. This API function has been activated.

Posted by James O'Reilly on April 9, 2009 at 1:22pm

Our New Motto: "Free Speech, Not Free Beer" - 2009 Predictions + Resolutions

Please post a contribution on HOW YOU RELATE to our new motto...

What are YOUR RESOLUTIONS for 2009 within Collaborative Translation?

Common Sense Advisory Global Watchtower: Predictions for 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMIND
http://www.xmind.net/
http://share.xmind.net/… Continue

Posted by James O'Reilly on January 7, 2009 at 8:30am — 15 Comments

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

I'd like to share a link with you:

Best Wishes,
Marisa

Posted by Marisa on December 24, 2008 at 4:18am

Call for Papers: SLanguages 2009 - SLanguages Annual Symposium

Group Notice From: Gavin Dudeney

An early heads up on the 3rd Annual SLanguages Conference to be held May 8th/9th, 2009 on EduNation I, II and III. The initial call for papers is now availabe on the Consultants-E website at:

http://tinyurl.com/8olwpz

And sign-up booths are in all the usual venues on the three islands. We hope to see you ther - especially if you're planning to do a talk, presentation, workshop, class...

Posted by James O'Reilly on December 23, 2008 at 11:00am

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 San Francisco

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 San Francisco
http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/

Video: Presentation Files
http://en.oreilly.com/webexsf2008/public/schedule/proceedings

Twitter: http://twitter.com/w2e

Posted by James O'Reilly on November 10, 2008 at 3:34pm

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 New York

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 New York
http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/

Video: Presentation Files
http://en.oreilly.com/webexny2008/public/schedule/proceedings

Twitter: http://twitter.com/w2e_NY08

Posted by James O'Reilly on November 10, 2008 at 2:30pm

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 Berlin

Web 2.0 Expo 2008 Berlin
http://en.oreilly.com/webexberlin2008/

Video: Conference Proceedings
http://web2expo.blip.tv/

Twitter: http://twitter.com/w2e_europe08

Posted by James O'Reilly on November 10, 2008 at 2:00pm

Web 2.0 Summit 2008 Proceedings

Web 2.0 Summit has once again reached capacity for the fifth consecutive year. Thanks to everyone who requested an invitation to the 2008 edition.

Presentation Files: 2008 Slides for Download and Plenary Video

http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/schedule/proceedings

Mobile Camera/Audio Transcription and Web 2.0 Translation using the iPhone xG

Twitter: http://twit… Continue

Posted by James O'Reilly on November 9, 2008 at 8:00pm

WikiSym 2008: The International Symposium on Wikis: Papers Wiki and Language

Check it out... it happened in Lisabon on 2008-09-07

http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings/#

Language Papers

1. Translating the DEMGOL Etymological Dictionary of Greek Mythology with the BEYTrans Wiki
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2008/proceedings/research%20papers/18500072.pdf

2. The Cross-Lingual Wiki Engine: Enabling Collaboration Across Language… Continue

Posted by James O'Reilly on October 7, 2008 at 8:00pm

Happy Translators' Day!!!!

Because words matter, have a great day!

Regards,

Marisa

Posted by Marisa on September 30, 2008 at 3:31pm

Get an Invitation for InterNations.org

Welcome to InterNations
InterNations - the first international network for expatriates and global minds!

* Experience the international way of life together with other global minds
* Connect, exchange and meet with trusted people who live abroad like you
* Find reliable information and tips from other members about your local living environment

In order to ensure a community of trust and confidence, InterNations is an invitation based network. You need to be invited to become a member. InterNa… Continue

Posted by James O'Reilly on September 23, 2008 at 7:00pm

Announcement Blog for the Collaboration Translation Sandbox Wiki

The Sandbox Wiki has a new Discussion Forum in order to enable some messy talking about the wiki configuration, structure and process before actually upgrading or updating the translation wiki.

https://sites.google.com/site/collaborativetranslationwiki/Home

Feel free to register under: http://sandbox-wiki-forum.lefora.com/

Posted by James O'Reilly on September 10, 2008 at 9:30pm

Collaborative Translation: Live Collaboration Session Using Web-based Conferencing

Same question here too, folks?
http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/

Posted by James O'Reilly on August 7, 2008 at 4:30pm

Collaborative Translation: Live Group Chat Event in Google Lively

How about meeting in a group chat within Google Lively, folks?

http://collaborative-translation.ning.com/

Posted by James O'Reilly on August 7, 2008 at 4:00pm

Group Chat Sandbox - Where Are You Located? Your Skype?

Virtual Keyboard in 41 Languages

Coordinated Universal Time UTC (GMT)
Get Your World Time Freeware or Online World Clock

MeGlobe - Browser-Based IM with Synchrone Group Chat Translation in 15 Languages

Virtual Worlds Presentation Box

Web 2.0 Publishing: Utilium Study Packs Mobile Learning Pedagogic Benchmarks for 21st Century (German)

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