Jollo is an online translation

Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

 website where users can instantly translate texts into 23 languages, request human translations from a community of volunteers

Volunteering

Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity, intended to promote good or improve human quality of life, but people also volunteer for their own skill development, to meet others, to make contacts for possible employment, to have fun, and a variety of other reasons that could be...

 around the world and compare the correctness of several leading Machine Translation

Machine translation

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...

 websites.

System

Jollo is a free Web 2.0

Web 2.0

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...

 website that is attempting to redefine the way in which people translate online through the use of existing machine translation

Machine translation

Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...

 websites and a community of volunteers who correct and rate translations. The system relies on a similar methodology as computer-assisted translation

Computer-assisted translation

Computer-assisted translation, computer-aided translation, or CAT is a form of translation wherein a human translator translates texts using computer software designed to support and facilitate the translation process....

 to ensure translation quality, and features a public translation memory

Translation memory

A translation memory, or TM, is a database that stores so-called "segments", which can be sentences or sentence-like units that have previously been translated. A translation memory system stores the words, phrases and paragraphs that have already been translated, in order to aid human translators...

 that records past translations.

Jollo has received some notable media attention. According to The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph

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 . According to the popular blog KillerStartups Jollo combines the best of two worlds - the speed of machine translations plus the benefit of human reviews to ensure translation quality. According to blogger Jeffrey Hill from The English Blog the community features make Jollo an interesting alternative to other online translation services.

Development

The Jollo website is currently classified as beta.

Jollo is developed using LAMP

LAMP (software bundle)

LAMP is an acronym for a solution stack of free, open source software, referring to the first letters of Linux , Apache HTTP Server, MySQL and PHP , principal components to build a viable general purpose web server.The GNU project is advocating people to use the term "GLAMP" since what is known as...

and has been praised for its colorful graphics and simple user interface.

Jollo currently offers a simple web-based API that can be used for translations.
For example,
http://www.jollo.com/translate.php?st=I%20love%20you&sl=en&tl=zh, is used to translate the sentence "I love you" from English into Chinese.