When you pick up an english article on the internet that contains worlds of informations (even if you don't understand english) and you are very eager to know what the contents could likely be. then what's your reaction that time? Will you push it away from your mind or just ignore it in case that you can't master the english in it, or find a translate tool such as Coogle Translate and Yahoo fanyi and keep on reading it in two languages (english and chinese)? If there's no other way to choose, i strongly suggest you go for your fortune in yeeyan.
What's yeeyan?
The idea of yeeyan has its unique character and speciality: discovering, translating,reading the essence of Non-Chinese articles on the internet. According to the sentence above,you may approximately guess there are a group of people ,who love internet and reading ,accumulated on the platform of yeeyan and actually it is. But in fact, yeeyan members' interest is beyond our imagination: not only are they the readers who just read the information,but also they are taking on the responsibility of translating for free. They tanslate and recommend us a abundant of foreign language articles. In my point of view, yeeyan ,well-named 'human body translate machine', is a common platform for assistance. You may see it as a form of social media or WIKI(维基).
Everybody can be contributor
It can be very easy to become the one of members of yeeyan. It only takes you 10 minutes to register. If you want to be a tanslator, then what you need is more than time and energy (the basal requirement of most of core members of website). You are also likely required to be a talant who can master at least one foreign language such as english. Maybe you think the beginning is very difficult for you. But if you spend some time and energy (still the question of core members),you can gradually grow up to be a Yeeyan'er in case you do wish to do so. Everybody can be a contributor and translate some foreign language articles he/she likes best and share them. Of course, you may also tanslate an article with your teammates (i call this 'human body tanslation machine'). Under the arrangement of yeeyan team, hundreds of yeeyan'ers can foucs their translating object on the same registered project such as the finished articles 'LONG TAIL', 'WELL MEANING FEUDALISM---TIBET PITFALL', 'START-UP HOLY BIBLE' and '10 IEDAS OF CHANGING THE WORLD'.
That artistic craftsmen
There's no doubt that the yeeyan' ers are worth of our respection. They offer their private works of art selflessly with their own technic and wisdom so that everybody can step over the ravine of culture and enjoy their works, just like the first meeting with someone. The translators in Yeeyan ,most of them are students and english lovers, are not all the experts in English major, and whose translate standard can't reach the level required by experts. But you will be surprised by the strange fact that the articles translated by Yeeyan'ers have larger audience and fans than that translated by experts, which is the internets' character of common and openness. It is not difficult to imagin that how much time and costs will be needed in order to caltivate and maintain a expert for some big websites (well-known website or blog net website) and the expert doesn't always be hospitable and postive. In Yeeyan, however, yeeyan'ers do not necessarily enjoy the fame and treatment, what's more, they do things in terms of their interest and have much higher passion and activity than experts. Every website dreams of owning the members like that, doesn't it?
There's no article cann't be translated
Currently the main contents produced in Yeeyan are made up of articles , most of which are translated from English to Chinese and some of which are translated from other foreign language to Chinese. The interface of Yeeyan is very friendly and simple,which totally comes from the designers' skillful mastery about style and user experience. The core tehcnic of Yeeyan is to build a system,with which attached all kinds of tiny humanizing functions such as Yeeyan group,celebrity room and translator seal, that offers an easy translate tool and crowd interaction. In the course of translating,Yeeyan'ers can pick up any article, get help from translate tool,release the translation,raise the amount of seals and then step into celebrity room. Unconsciously,Yeeyan'ers finish a perfect process of creation and interactional share for Yeeyan,which ,I think ,is the common truth of user's experience . 'There's no article cann't be translated', which should be the Yeeyan's potencial values. You may have a try in Yeeyan if you don't believe it.
What's the trend of Yeeyan
Generally,what we talk about is the trend of an internet's site,usually the business model of it. In a manner of speaking, Yeeyan hasn't made any relevant attempts to the innovation of business model yet. The traditional business model (advertisment),in my point of view,dosen't suit to Yeeyan. Howver ,advertisment doesn't impossiblely have to be the core of business model (glad to see Yeeyan doesn't do so). The business model of Yeeyan ,in terms of a dialy language, is within the range of your touch but actually far beyond your eyesight. Yeeyan apparently doesn't pay much attention to the business mode within the range of touch. But it can easily catch the business mode far beyond your eyesight. The openess and integrated member resourses will be the important premise of generating Yeeyan's unique business model. Similar to the new business work station 'hand in hand' internet,Yeeyan's clarity of business model comes from the partition of its members and dedicated operation of creation and the expand of business. The core idea of 'hand in hand' internet, as well as the standard operation method of completing profit of social media website, is to make a few of clients pay and large numbers of members (workers) make money. Undoubtedly, the positon and resources of Yeeyan determines that it will go faster and futther than most social media website. Everything about Yeeyan is in the course of trying , or even adventure. In the future, Yeeyan will have at least two business models: one is to make members pay for what they are going to read in order to give the translators rewards, the other is to make enterprises pay for what they intend to translate, the translators get what they deserve and members can read for free. Apparently , the latter model is more attractive for most members. The former benifits the labors rather than others (benifit translators ,not members) while the latter benifits all of the three, that is enterprises meet their needs, translators get payment and members enjoy the free services. If i were in the position of enterprise, i will pay Yeeyan for my requirement. What's more, i think you will do so.
Yeeyan summary:
Yeeyan was set up in April, 4th,2007, whose founder were three Chinese engineers working in Sillicon valley in US. Yeeyan is an open community translation platform,whose slogan is 'discovering, translating,reading the essence of Non-Chinese articles on the internet'. in the name of unconditional devotions,translators translate the essense of Non-Chinese in the internet into Chinese and release them on the website.
iuhil (06/30/2008)
Yeeyan, translate the wholw internet
When you pick up an english article on the internet that contains worlds of informations (even if you don't understand english) and you are very eager to know what the contents could likely be. then what's your reaction that time? Will you push it away from your mind or just ignore it in case that you can't master the english in it, or find a translate tool such as Coogle Translate and Yahoo fanyi and keep on reading it in two languages (english and chinese)? If there's no other way to choose, i strongly suggest you go for your fortune in yeeyan.
What's yeeyan?
The idea of yeeyan has its unique character and speciality: discovering, translating,reading the essence of Non-Chinese articles on the internet. According to the sentence above,you may approximately guess there are a group of people ,who love internet and reading ,accumulated on the platform of yeeyan and actually it is. But in fact, yeeyan members' interest is beyond our imagination: not only are they the readers who just read the information,but also they are taking on the responsibility of translating for free. They tanslate and recommend us a abundant of foreign language articles. In my point of view, yeeyan ,well-named 'human body translate machine', is a common platform for assistance. You may see it as a form of social media or WIKI(维基).
Everybody can be contributor
It can be very easy to become the one of members of yeeyan. It only takes you 10 minutes to register. If you want to be a tanslator, then what you need is more than time and energy (the basal requirement of most of core members of website). You are also likely required to be a talant who can master at least one foreign language such as english. Maybe you think the beginning is very difficult for you. But if you spend some time and energy (still the question of core members),you can gradually grow up to be a Yeeyan'er in case you do wish to do so. Everybody can be a contributor and translate some foreign language articles he/she likes best and share them. Of course, you may also tanslate an article with your teammates (i call this 'human body tanslation machine'). Under the arrangement of yeeyan team, hundreds of yeeyan'ers can foucs their translating object on the same registered project such as the finished articles 'LONG TAIL', 'WELL MEANING FEUDALISM---TIBET PITFALL', 'START-UP HOLY BIBLE' and '10 IEDAS OF CHANGING THE WORLD'.
That artistic craftsmen
There's no doubt that the yeeyan' ers are worth of our respection. They offer their private works of art selflessly with their own technic and wisdom so that everybody can step over the ravine of culture and enjoy their works, just like the first meeting with someone. The translators in Yeeyan ,most of them are students and english lovers, are not all the experts in English major, and whose translate standard can't reach the level required by experts. But you will be surprised by the strange fact that the articles translated by Yeeyan'ers have larger audience and fans than that translated by experts, which is the internets' character of common and openness. It is not difficult to imagin that how much time and costs will be needed in order to caltivate and maintain a expert for some big websites (well-known website or blog net website) and the expert doesn't always be hospitable and postive. In Yeeyan, however, yeeyan'ers do not necessarily enjoy the fame and treatment, what's more, they do things in terms of their interest and have much higher passion and activity than experts. Every website dreams of owning the members like that, doesn't it?
There's no article cann't be translated
Currently the main contents produced in Yeeyan are made up of articles , most of which are translated from English to Chinese and some of which are translated from other foreign language to Chinese. The interface of Yeeyan is very friendly and simple,which totally comes from the designers' skillful mastery about style and user experience. The core tehcnic of Yeeyan is to build a system,with which attached all kinds of tiny humanizing functions such as Yeeyan group,celebrity room and translator seal, that offers an easy translate tool and crowd interaction. In the course of translating,Yeeyan'ers can pick up any article, get help from translate tool,release the translation,raise the amount of seals and then step into celebrity room. Unconsciously,Yeeyan'ers finish a perfect process of creation and interactional share for Yeeyan,which ,I think ,is the common truth of user's experience . 'There's no article cann't be translated', which should be the Yeeyan's potencial values. You may have a try in Yeeyan if you don't believe it.
What's the trend of Yeeyan
Generally,what we talk about is the trend of an internet's site,usually the business model of it. In a manner of speaking, Yeeyan hasn't made any relevant attempts to the innovation of business model yet. The traditional business model (advertisment),in my point of view,dosen't suit to Yeeyan. Howver ,advertisment doesn't impossiblely have to be the core of business model (glad to see Yeeyan doesn't do so). The business model of Yeeyan ,in terms of a dialy language, is within the range of your touch but actually far beyond your eyesight. Yeeyan apparently doesn't pay much attention to the business mode within the range of touch. But it can easily catch the business mode far beyond your eyesight. The openess and integrated member resourses will be the important premise of generating Yeeyan's unique business model. Similar to the new business work station 'hand in hand' internet,Yeeyan's clarity of business model comes from the partition of its members and dedicated operation of creation and the expand of business. The core idea of 'hand in hand' internet, as well as the standard operation method of completing profit of social media website, is to make a few of clients pay and large numbers of members (workers) make money. Undoubtedly, the positon and resources of Yeeyan determines that it will go faster and futther than most social media website. Everything about Yeeyan is in the course of trying , or even adventure.
In the future, Yeeyan will have at least two business models: one is to make members pay for what they are going to read in order to give the translators rewards, the other is to make enterprises pay for what they intend to translate, the translators get what they deserve and members can read for free. Apparently , the latter model is more attractive for most members. The former benifits the labors rather than others (benifit translators ,not members) while the latter benifits all of the three, that is enterprises meet their needs, translators get payment and members enjoy the free services. If i were in the position of enterprise, i will pay Yeeyan for my requirement. What's more, i think you will do so.
Yeeyan summary:
Yeeyan was set up in April, 4th,2007, whose founder were three Chinese engineers working in Sillicon valley in US. Yeeyan is an open community translation platform,whose slogan is 'discovering, translating,reading the essence of Non-Chinese articles on the internet'. in the name of unconditional devotions,translators translate the essense of Non-Chinese in the internet into Chinese and release them on the website.