Live Tweeting is launched at Le Web 2009

Posted by finkployd in Info
Wednesday, December 9. 2009

http://www.LiveTweeting.com

LiveTweeting | Real-Time Crowdsourced Translation

Live Tweeting is a real-time interactive web application for multi-language live coverage, based on the popular micro blogging service twitter.

A group of live tweeters will be covering the event in its Native Language, for example English, and at the same time multi-lingual tweeters will crowdsource translation of the coverage to a second language, for example Arabic. All that will be presented in real-time on LiveTweeting.com.

You can participate by rating both the coverage and translation tweets with stars right on LiveTweeting.com

Anyone can watch and rate; just point your browser to LiveTweeting.com!

http://www.LiveTweeting.com

Live Tweeting was launched on Dec 9th 2009, just in time to cover Le Web 2009 in English and crowd sourced Arabic! Le Web’s theme for 2009 just happens to be “The Real-Time Web”!

Le Web 2009’s Middle East highlights:

- Speaker: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah
- Panel: The Middle East Panel

Live Tweeting is a transnational crowdsourced effort. Samer Karam (Beirut, Lebanon) invented the concept as a solution to his impending problem of live tweeting - from Le Web 2009 - in English to a predominantly Arabic speaking audience in the Middle East. Immediately thereafter, Samer Karam stumbled into Beshr Kayali (Damascus, Syria) on Twitter - the brother of a Twitter friend - who offered to co-develop the concept in-time for Le Web. Over Skype and Twitter, and with the help of infamous designer and illustrator Maya Zankoul (Beirut, Lebanon), Live Tweeting was pulled together successfully within the span of one week.

Live Tweeting is the first web application to implement crowdsourced real-time translation. We believe this to be the future of live grassroots multi-language journalism.

Special thanks to:

* Maroun Najm, Omar Christidis, Habib Haddad, Emile Cubeisy, Elie El Khoury, The Meedan Team

tags: live tweeting, le web, real-time, twitter, crowdsource, translation, english, arabic,

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