mromaine

Joined 17 years ago

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Born in Boston to an American father and Japanese mother. Lived in the North East U.S., Tokyo, and London before finally settling in Tokyo from ages 6 to 14. Attended Phillips Academy, graduated from Brown University, and received a Masters in music from Stanford University before returning to Tokyo in 2002 to join Sony. Started in R&D studying multi-channel audio streaming applications, moved to consumer product development, and then joined the Corporate Technology Strategy Group when Howard Stringer was appointed CEO. In 2007 I founded Majides, Inc. - a Web-Services development company and unification brand for incubation projects MiiStation, KiraKiraJin, and 2kurabe. MiiStation was reviewed in the WallStreet Journal and awarded a Time.com Best 50 Website in 2007. Currently developing Gengo (http://gengo.com), the most efficient human-powered translation platform with an API on the web.
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Comment · 15 years ago
Japan - only the 3rd largest economy in the world, gets grouped with "(Rest of) Asia/Pacific", while India, Africa, UK and Canada get their own spots ...? :)
Comment · 15 years ago
Hi - are you sure about not receiving a reply? I'm looking at the Zendesk ticket and it shows that we've responded within 8 hours. Update: Now I see why - you mistyped your email address.
Comment · 15 years ago
Full disclosure: I'm the CTO of myGengo

I would also add that because translation is core to our business, we would never deprecate the translation API :)

Comment · 16 years ago
two words - "opportunity cost".
Comment · 16 years ago
this has got to be one of the most beautifully set blog posts I've read recently.

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