A recent post on the Digital Spy blog discusses how the popular game Minecraft ended up containing a racial slur for users who switched the language preference to Afrikaans (spoken in South Africa). (more…)

Many companies are following a model of letting their users provide translations for the user interface of their web-based products through crowdsourced translation. Beside the obvious issues of control of the content and quality, I have an economic concern over this practice. (more…)

A relatively new buzz-word, crowdsourcing was termed in 2006 as the “the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call (source: Wikipedia). (more…)