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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Microsoft Launches Translation Service — Microsoft launched a service for automatic translation called Windows Live Translator. The site lets you translate a text limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Windows Live Translator — Darren Straight has been snooping around some Windows Live Translator domain names, and today, for the first time, the Windows Live Translator beta site is live. According to Darren, the following urls are now working: — translator.live.com — translate.live.com
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InsideMicrosoft, TechCrunch, Darren Straight's Blog, ParisLemon and Microsoft News Tracker
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
danah continues the "precious," er, Facebook conversation... danah boyd continues the conversation. danah (she doesn't capitalize her name) is one of our industry's top researchers about social software. — Actually now that Milan (our new son) is coming I'm finding myself a lot more in her camp than previously.
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Zephoria / apophenia:
SNS visibility norms (a response to Scoble) — A few days ago, I lamented the tech crowd's Facebook fetish. Scoble raised the bar by responding to all of my nitpicks. Now, it's my turn again. Tehehe. — I think that Scoble summed it all up perfectly with this: … He's totally right.
Shira Boss / New York Times:
Even in a Virtual World, 'Stuff' Matters — IT'S payday for Janine Hawkins. Not in the real world, where she is a student at Nipissing University in Ontario, but in the online world of Second Life, where she is managing editor of the fashion magazine Second Style.
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Social Media, mathewingram.com/work, Second Life Insider, thoughtsignals and 3pointD.com
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Virtual Worlds Are The Future Of Global Commerce: ICANN CEO — In a wide ranging keynote address at the 2007 Influence Forum, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey told the audience that virtual worlds are the future of global commerce. — Twomey used The Sims Online as an example of the sort of interface …
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Weekend Feature: The How of Habbo Hotel — How did a small Finnish company create an online world which now boasts the largest current active user base in Europe and North America (about 6.5 million)*, far larger than World of Warcraft (around 4.5 million, not counting its Chinese audience)?
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Rainbow Hash Cracking — The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure. The Microsoft password strength checker rates it "strong".
Jamais Cascio / Open the Future:
SINGULARITY SUMMIT TALK: OPENNESS AND THE METAVERSE SINGULARITY — The following is the text of the presentation I'm giving today at the Singularity Summit. I've set the post to go live at the same time I go onto the stage. Update: this is now the corrected version …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
RFID implants linked to cancer in lab tests — As if pain, conspiracy, big brother, and lack of necessity weren't already enough to deter you, the average Joe or Jane, from getting a subcutaneous RFID chip implant, a number of studies over the past decade have amassed which link the chips to malignant tumors in animal tests.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake? — "Some of our competitors jumped over us in a Darwinian way," Michael S. Dell says. "Now it's our turn." He recently returned as C.E.O. — Round Rock, Tex. — ON a recent afternoon at his company's headquarters here, Michael S. Dell is seated …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iTunes 7.4.1 ringtones re-rename workaround discovered — So last night iTunes 7.4.1 came out which, among other things, blocked off the custom ringtone renaming method, which allowed users to add their own ringtones to their iPhone without buying them on iTunes.
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TECH.BLORGE.com, Oubipaws.org, Mobility Site, Forever Geek, Macworld, Joe Maller and Digg
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Electronista:
3G, 16GB iPhone for Europe in November? — Apple may launch its iPhone campaign in Europe with a 3G-capable iPhone with enhanced storage, according to what appears to be a leaked ad from T-Mobile Germany. The ad promises a version of the handset with support for 3G-level cellular Internet access using …
Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
Will Weakening Economy KO Web Startups? — Economy watchers see recession as more likely after Friday's weak jobs data. What does this mean for Web 2.0 hopefuls, now readying themselves for the fall conference season and dreaming of a Club Penguin style acquisition?
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Tips for Google Reader Search — While Google Reader's new search feature has many limitations and is still far from Bloglines, there are some features that help you find a post faster. — 1. You have three ways to view search results: — * snippet view, similar to the way Google displays web search results.
