The AIfIA Translations initiative aims to make IA writings available to non-English speakers. I am the Spanish language editor for the initiative; if you have any questions regarding this project, or if you want to contribute translations, please don’t hesitate to write.
According to an article in the Miami Herald, one of the often-overlooked benefits of outsourcing to Latin America is that it shares the same time zones as the US. Having worked with colleagues half a world away, I can assure you that this distinction is more important than it sounds.
I am all for asynchronous communications, but when working in high-pressure projects under tight deadlines, it’s important to at least be able to meet on the phone. It doesn’t really work when either of the parties has to get up at 3AM to do so.
Besides sharing time zones, Latin America offers many other benefits:
Marketing Sherpa has an article with tips and links on how to best market to the 12.5 million Spanish-speaking internet users in the US. The US has more Spanish-speakers online that Spain and Mexico combined.
Zeldman: “The rumors flew all day, but we held off writing about this until we had it from an unimpeachable source. Jimmy Grewal is a key member of the Mac Internet Explorer team and a stand-up guy. He confirms that IE5/Mac is dead.”
Dave Winer: “The Internet had made all [of Bill Gate’s] complex technology irrelevant. He had been routed around. It was cool! It took him ten years to erase the Web as a threat. It’s done now. He owns it, it’s in the trunk (I know you don’t like to hear this) it’s locked, and they’re driving it off a cliff into the ocean.”
An interesting paper on visualizing complex phenomena. [Via Smart Mobs]
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