Archive for May 25th, 2007
Google is attempting to jump over language barriers in a single bound. The search king this week launched a new feature to convert search results into 12 different languages. The long-term implications could be a boon for e-commerce.Dubbed Google Translate, the tool is aligned with the company’s mission to make the world’s information universally accessible. The new cross-language feature allows searchers to find and view results on foreign language Web pages in their own native language.
“If the ideal result page to a query is written in a language that you don’t understand, then up until now it would be very hard to get access to this information,” Google research scientist Franz Och wrote on Google’s blog. The tool is initially available for searchers who speak English, Arabic, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
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May 25th, 2007
At the Facebook f8 event on Thursday, the company unveiled a platform that lets third-party developers build and integrate applications for the second most popular social-networking site. Analysts said it will offer new revenue opportunities for participants.Those dollar signs might have drawn some of the Facebook Platform’s 65-plus developer partners, including Amazon.com, Microsoft 
, and box.net, that are creating more than 85 applications to kick off the concept.
One example application is called Video, which allows Facebook members to share personal videos with community friends. It also lets them create and send video messages directly to and from the Facebook Inbox.
“Until now, social networks have been closed platforms,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told an audience of more than 750 developers and partners during his keynote address. “With this evolution of Facebook Platform, any developer worldwide can build full social applications on top of the social graph, inside of Facebook,” he explained.
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May 25th, 2007
“I don’t think there’s any such thing as setting your goals too high. The higher you set your goals, the more you are going to work. If you don’t reach them, then it’s okay, just as long as you set it and then give 100% of yourself.”
– Dan Jansen, Speed Skater
May 25th, 2007
“Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers, Humorist
May 25th, 2007
