translation produced by state-of-the-art technology, without the intervention of human translators. Google's research group has developed its own statistical translation system for the language pairs now available on Google Translate.
a web search engine for students and researchers. RefSeek aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers.
Create Digital Motion » Art for Small Screens: iHologram on iPhone
Speaking of iPhones, here’s some really brilliant work by David O’Reilly. You may have seen it already, as it looks like it’s made the rounds, but I love the technique. By doing anamorphic perspective warping of the 3D scene on the device, this app simulates a holographic 3D on the screen of the iPhone,
Panda is an open source solution for video uploading, encoding and streaming. Panda architecture diagram Unlike other video platforms, Panda is not just a service for encoding your videos for the web; Panda handles the whole process. From the upload form to streaming, Panda takes control. By providing an elegant REST API, Panda makes it completely painless to implement full video uploading, encoding and streaming functionality to your web application in a matter of hours.
HistoGrafica is a community-driven website with high aims - making a large amount of historical pictures easily accessible in one place on the web. Everyone can share and describe their old pictures on HistoGrafica and help expand this free archive. Together, we can create the biggest, freely available archive of geo- and timetagged historical pictures in the world.
t’s a complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch.
The SFMOMA ArtScope is designed for wandering, for the chance discovery of artworks you might not have encountered before. This visual browsing tool features more than 3,500 objects from our collection, arranged in a continuous, map-like grid. Zoom in on an eye-catching image, search by keyword or artist, or just have a look around. In any case, we suspect you’ll see our collection in a different light.
Widgenie is one of the primary properties of LogiXML, an organization committed to bringing together the best of business intelligence and web technologies to empower users in their daily lives. Widgenie lives up to that goal by providing an easy way for "non-techies" to build and share their own personal widgenies. We help people bring more value to their blogs, social networks, and web sites by helping the easy spread of visual information. Widgenie empowers everyone, from bloggers to business people, to quickly visualize data and share it in many different ways. Now you can publish data in the places you already know and love, places like iGoogle, Facebook, Blogger, and even your own website. We combine all the power of an enterprise-level business intelligence platform and provide it in a convenient Web 2.0 widget.
Track, compare and share data, free. Identify trends across social graphs and networks, realize the potential of p2p, track engagement metrics, look at what is really happening, real time.
Fring Releases an Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone - Mashable
Fring has made available its first iPhone- and iPod touch-compatible application for the App Store. the free iPhone/iPod download gets you quite a lot in terms of choice. Far more than what its Apple-approved brethren have provided so far. It can connect you to Skype, MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, Yahoo, and AOL’s AIM protocol, as well as conduct cellular, SIP, and Skype Out calls via Wi-Fi. (Cellular is of course only possible via an iPhone.)
iCharts | create, share, and embed interactive charts online
iCharts makes it simple to create, share and embed interactive charts. iCharts allows everyone to upload Excel sheets or manually add data from which they can easily create, share and embed interactive charts (= iCharts) within minutes. iCharts can be published on the iCharts Portal at icharts.net and they can be embedded anywhere on the Internet in blogs, forums or corporate websites. Premium account holders can also download iCharts and embed them offline in PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations, retaining their full interactivity. Traditional, static charts are somewhat limited. The interactivity in iCharts provides a whole new dimension for presenting, consuming and understanding data. As a new feature, you can now also place audio comments inside your iCharts to convey your message in a highly convenient and personal way.
Matt Barton's Tikiwiki : Microsoft Word: An Unnecessary Evil?
First and foremost, Microsoft Word is a solid piece of software, and the 2007 version is untouchable at present. It pretty much sets the standard. It's also in no way evil in and of itself. That said, it's unfortunately not free, so here are some alternatives that are.
BackType is a service that lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web. Whenever you fill out the "Website" or "URL" field in a comment form when you publish a comment on a blog or other website, BackType attributes it to you. We give comment authors a profile featuring all the comments they've written on the Internet. If you don't have a website to use when you fill out comment forms, sign up and use one of ours.
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn: Scientific American
Storytelling is a human universal, and common themes appear in tales throughout history and all over the the world. # These characteristics of stories, and our natural affinity toward them, reveal clues about our evolutionary history and the roots of emotion and empathy in the mind. # By studying narrative’s power to influence beliefs, researchers are discovering how we analyze information and accept new ideas.
Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that's free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking for $12.95 to go away. You can register if you want to collect karma and win valuable flair that will appear next to your name, but otherwise, it's just free. And fast. Very, very fast. We don't run Stack Overflow. You do. Stack Overflow is collaboratively built and maintained by your fellow programmers. Once the system learns to trust you, you'll be able to edit anything, much like Wikipedia. With your help, we can build good answers to every imaginable programming question together. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home -- better programming is our goal.
About two years ago I was hooked on the idea of building a social life stream application … . That hasn’t stopped my intense interest in powerful aggregation and life streaming options. It is so important for so many things. We are all spreading our identity across several sites and having a place to assemble the meta identity seems as though it is still an emerging and powerful need. When you think about teaching the notion of powerful and well organized aggregation gets even more critical. Think of a class where all 350 students have blogs and are writing on a regular basis … now that we disaggregated the content management by moving outside the LMS/CMS, we need new ways to pull it all back together (sort of ironic). Here is another killer use for a solid life stream style application.
COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color - whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification - a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews. See More Color...
The 50 greatest arts videos on YouTube | Technology | The Observer
YouTube is best known for its offbeat videos that become viral sensations. But among its millions of clips is a treasure trove of rare and fascinating arts footage, lovingly posted by fans. Ajesh Patalay selects 50 of the best - Joy Division's TV debut, readings by Jack Kerouac, a Marlene Dietrich screen test, Madonna's first performance... and much more
Explore the National archives in a very interactive way of exploring images- the site then pulls an array o related content, and individuals can create their own collections and pathways through the vast materials.
A network of concurring genes and proteins extends through the scientific literature touching on phenotypes, pathologies and gene function. iHOP provides this network as a natural way of accessing millions of PubMed abstracts. By using genes and proteins as hyperlinks between sentences and abstracts, the information in PubMed can be converted into one navigable resource, bringing all advantages of the internet to scientific literature research. Terms of Use iHOP was developed and created by Robert Hoffmann and is a free service from the academic domain, licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Hopefully you will find that iHOP makes things possible which would not be without it. iHOP is free of charge, thus its continuity will depend on the community it was created for.
In WikiGenes (http://www.wikigenes.org/), authorship tracking technology enables users to directly identify the source of every word. This was not possible in first generation wikis, although authorship is essential to acknowledge contributors and to appraise the reliability of information. On the basis of clear authorship attribution, users can rate each other, and a self-regulating reputation system can be implemented. This is useful to address quality maintenance and the problem of editing conflicts, which used to depend on slow and theoretically refutable top-down decisions. To facilitate contribution and unambiguous use of scientific language, WikiGenes enables editing of articles in their final layout and citation of scientific terminology and references through integrated database and ontology lookups. All contributions to WikiGenes will be open access.
Resource kit for creative communities (e-learning on a shoestring)
In this resource kit, community organisations can find helpful online guidance, ideas and tools for developing and facilitating e-learning in communities and regions. The kit includes suggestions and options on the why and how of e-learning. You'll find guidance on low cost tools and technologies, as well as ideas and stories to help you get started.
Twitter Novels: Not Big Success Stories Yet - ReadWriteWeb
In Japan, mobile phone novels called "keitai shousetus" have become so successful that they accounted for half of the ten best-selling novels in 2007. Here in the Western world several would-be novelists are attempting to use Twitter to create the same phenomenon. Some of the novels tweeted so far have been interesting and engaging, but others, sadly, appear to be abandoned. Will micro-format fiction ever take off here as it did in Japan?
On this "pageflake," you'll find a collection of pre-writing tools to help you develop your essay with greater depth and complexity. The topoi are designed to encourage students to view an issue through multiple lenses. The Topoi raise questions, challenge assumptions, reveal contradictions, offer new points of view.
SlideBoom - Share Live PowerPoint Presentations Online
SlideBoom gives you a place to share your PowerPoint presentations with the world. We want to help everyone reach a worldwide audience. Of course, it's up to you who can view your creations. With Slideboom, your original presentation keeps its features after conversion. This includes: content style animation effects transitions embedded audio * embedded video iSpring lets SlideBoom convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash movies faster while retaining the presentation's original effects better than any other service can. You can also convert presentations from PowerPoint to Flash on your own computer using the iSpring add-in for PowerPoint.
bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, bloated and always got your server hacked? bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed. We’re focused on keeping things as small and light as possible while still allowing for great add on features through our extensive plugin system.
