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I found this to be ingenious: To allow for the building of alliances within the game, the app needed a sophisticated chat feature. In the middle of development

I found this to be ingenious: To allow for the building of alliances within the game, the app needed a sophisticated chat feature. In the middle of development, Leydon decided it made sense for all players, no matter what their native tongue, to speak the same language. So he built a messaging platform that included a translation engine based not only on Google Translate but also on crowdsourcing. Within Game of War, text messages, comments, and push notifications are translated with about 70 percent accuracy. Log in to the game in Polish, and everything you read from other players is in Polish, too. The game’s players correct any errors they notice in exchange for virtual rewards within the game. From the start, the average player corrected 10 misspellings and slang expressions per day.

vxNsr 12y ago
After reading this I didn't understand why they hadn't been bought by Google or Microsoft just for that feature, access to a near real-time translator that not only gets the usual words and uses but lots of slang and edge cases that nerds like us love to use. I mean google built/bought gVoice and GOOG-411 for the voicemails and transcriptions, they have that weird empire land based game for maps, and here's a chance to greatly improve gTranslate and possibly even gNow... As a windows phone user, I, of course, want microsoft to snap them up (for cortana), but they don't have the foresight to make these types of buys (yet?).