| I have
put 'Babel Fish' code onto every page on
my site at:- http://www.ebook-sales.com and I can see
from the stats on the server that people
are clicking on 'Babel Fish' to have a
translation. This I feel, widens my
audience out there in cyberspace. The
'hit counter' has substantially risen, I
have people bookmarking my site, because
I see they don't all come in the 'front
door' to the site, they come in to
certain pages that interests them. Every new page I
put on my site, and I update fairly
often, I make sure the 'Babel Fish' code
is at the top of the html on that page.
The
technology is certainly improving, I
remember science- fiction movies when I
was young had computers to instantly
translate into any language, but the
technology has only just arrived in
reality and can be used widely on the
web.
In
previous articles I wrote about the
Chinese market about to be opened up, for
there are more people in China logging on
to the internet every day. There are
businesspeople in the west who are eyeing
this market at the moment. To those
people I would ask them to seek out some
of my previous articles on Ideamarketers.com and take into
account what I say there.
It's
also no good to the vast population of
China, who do not speak any other
language, to see sites always put up in
English. Some attempt must be made to
have parallel pages with Chinese
throughout, or resort to the excellent
technology that is 'Babel Fish', and as I
know the corporate world moves grindingly
slowly, the adept and astute entrepreneur
could steal a march on their bigger,
slower cousins.
Does
your company pay a translation service to
be able to send documents abroard?
Translation
services are costly and slow. If you put
your documents on a server in html and
insert the code for 'Babel Fish' at the
top of every page, you can send an email
giving the address of the pages, you can
also send a password to get into these
pages, no one else will be able to view
them, and this will avoid translation
costs and slow turnaround of such a
service.
Likewise
technical manuals could be scanned into
html pages, code for 'Babel Fish'
inserted at the top of every page, upload
the manual to a server, password protect,
and your company, to people abroard, will
look like something out of 'Startrek',
and they will be confident in doing more
business with you in the future.
There is
only one thing that I have found
personally, as I am an author and only
write in English, I find if I compile an
ebook to an .exe file, as most
ebook-compilers do, the 'Babel Fish' code
I already placed at the top of every html
page before compilation, does not work.
The pages are compiled into gibberish
anyway, and I suppose the code for 'Babel
Fish' the same.
It would
be a great leap forward to me and other
writers producing ebooks, to have a
compiler that can have built-in
translation facility into several
languages.
If
anyone can do this excellent programming
idea, I would be the first to buy such a
compiler. There lies the nub of a great
business invention almost akin to the
start of a great software company, like
Microsoft.
Why not
take this idea further, all movies could
be made with built-in translation, all
t.v. shows made with translation, to sell
these shows abroard.
What
else can you think of?
I
remember an old saying:- "Whatever
the mind of man can conceive, it can
achieve!".
Think
about it!
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