As part two of my series portraying translation businesses on the Internet I did a KWestions with Jani Penttinen of Xiha. You might remember this name from an EDUKWEST we did several months ago but this time it was all about his latest venture PremiumFanpage where he is also CEO.
The original idea of PremiumFanpage is to give businesses the opportunity to connect with their fans or also users in general in any language.
Last week Jani Penttinen, Founder and CEO made a big announcement on the Xiha blog about a new product called Premium Fan Page. Today, on his way back from Las Vegas, he posted a follow up of his experiences on the CES.
The product is based on Xiha’s technology that enables you to instantly translate Tweets and Facebook updates of your friends when they are writing in a language you don’t understand. In a globalized world with personal networks reaching around the globe a common case.
Xiha Life is around since 2008 already and has not only attracted a substantial seed funding of $1 million in January 2010 but also added Jyri Engeström who is a co-founder of Jaiku, a micro blogging platform similar to Twitter which has been acquired by Google for $12 million in 2007, to the board.
The newest version of Xiha Life enables you to add your Facebook and Twitter stream to the platform and hence use its real time translation tool.
