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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, ParisLemon, TechCrunch, Microsoft News Tracker and Darren Straight's Blog
Richard Wray / Guardian:
Google in corporate desktop push — Google has linked up with IT consultancy and outsourcing specialist CapGemini to target corporate customers with its range of desktop applications, in the search engine's most direct move against the dominance of Microsoft.
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Web Strategy
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Nick / Rough Type:
Capgemini to pitch Google Apps — In the clearest sign yet that Google Apps may be about to make the leap from small businesses to large ones, a major systems consulting firm, Capgemini, is announcing today a partnership with Google to push Apps into the enterprise market.
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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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, Second Life Insider, mathewingram.com/work, thoughtsignals and 3pointD.com
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Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:
Peter Thiel Explains How to Invest in the Singularity — "...The singularity will either be really successful, in which we're going to have the biggest boom ever, or it is probably going to blow up the whole world." — Such were the words of Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal …
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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TheStreet.com
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".
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.
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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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
TechCrunch40 Updates - Scoble Out?, Almost Sold Out, Big Announcement — A few quick updates on the TechCrunch40 Conference next week. For those not aware, they moved to 40 demos on September 1. Interestingly enough, they all come via Twitter! — Via Dave Winer …
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Scobleizer
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
Warner Shifts Web Course, Shouldering Video Costs — In the race to become a major supplier of original video programming to the Web, Warner Brothers has decided to reverse its direction. — The studio, part of Time Warner, plans today to introduce 24 Web productions in a range …
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paidContent.org
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.
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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