New concepts like “collaborative translation” and “crowdsourcing” have taken the stage in language services. As often happens during transitions, the terminology that describes these new phenomena is squishy. Recent news about Facebook getting translations done for free has reinvigorated the discussion. Let’s clarify what we mean by these terms.

For the last dozen of so years we’ve heard ourselves incessantly reminding everyone that the “www” in most URLs means “worldwide web,” while the “e” in “e-commerce” all too often stands for English. Our research on e-GDP (online GDP) and the Availability Quotient demonstrated that many companies still have a long journey before they can [...]

While politicians debate whether there is a recession in the United States or not, the economic landscape looks bleaker with each passing day. Last month a classic trading house was sold for pennies on the dollar, the sub-prime lending crisis is leaking from mortgages to other markets such as education loans, and the S&P 500 [...]