Detect Language Option In Google Translate: Brilliant

Detect Language Option In Google TranslateGoogle Translate has long taken over from the BabelFish translator that Alta Vista had way-back in the dim, distant past.

We use it whenever we can’t make sense of block of foreign text – nothing new in that.

Presented with a language we weren’t sure of recently, we selected Swedish as a guess, but the translation didn’t make sense to us.

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AudioBoo: G20 Boost Take Up

AudioBoo: G20 Boost Take UpWell done to the Best Before team who are behind AudioBoo, they’re really building user numbers and adding features.

AudioBoo, if you haven’t come across it already, lets you record and post audio entries from your iPhone. These messages live on AudioBoo and can be integrated into your own blogs – giving you an audio blog post.

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MBL Returns To Flash, Dumping Microsoft Silverlight. Why?

MBL Returns To Flash, Dumping Microsoft Silverlight. Why?Looks like Microsoft has hit a speed bump in trying to get Silverlight adopted by broadcasters.

Some reasons for the Major League Baseball stopping using Silverlight might be coming to light. With 500,000 subscribers, MBL.com is the Web’s most successful subscription service, so well worth taking note of.

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Twestival: Organising At The Speed Of Twitter

Twestival: Organising At The Speed Of TwitterIf you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months you probably haven’t heard of Twitter.

It’s a service that lets you write and post short messages that other people can read online or on their mobile devices. Some people call it micro-blogging, but that’s only because they don’t know how else to define it. It’s actually a a whole new communications channel, one that’s still firing off innovative uses of itself constantly.

Twestival is an interesting example. Its essence is a meeting of like-minded people, nothing new there, but the method and speed of arrangement is new.

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