Earlier today we mentioned a plugin for AIM that would translate what you type on the fly into another language. That's an exceptionally useful tool, but the far more fluid Continue reading »

Just kidding... but now that I have your attention, here are some interesting Web Tech tidbits: Amazon aStore is a new product from Amazon that enables you "to build a

IBM has a podcast with Tim Berners-Lee. In a conversation with Scott Laningham of IBM developerWorks, Sir Tim discusses his early history with the Web, opportunities and challenges of the

- List of Social Networking Systems (including their target audiences; very useful resource from Sid Yadav) - MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites (according to Hitwise, www.myspace.com

- Talkin' bout a media revolution (BBC article on, er, BBC media. And they chose the worst possible Murdoch photo to use :-) Anyway, it's an interesting article on how

- GData and Open Standards (Matt Kaufman from edgeio thinks Google could've done better to support existing open standards like Structured Blogging -- via Jeff Clavier) - The Economist feature on

- Yahoo buys digital home company Meedio (Meedio has a suite of products, including Meedio TV, which "lets you watch, pause, rewind, and record live analog, digital, and HDTV broadcasts

- Live.com to be homepage of Vista, IE7 (Niall Kennedy answers a question I asked at Microsoft Search Champs in January - HUGE news for RSS, search and gadgets) -

- Social Media Spending to Hit $757M in 2010 (over half in the technology, auto and media categories...) - Growing The Buzz (Alex Bosworth on Buzznet: "Plenty of room in

- Yahoo7 Combined 10% More Traffic than Previously (Ben Barren: "...[Y!7 users] demand is insatiable - they need more product than can be provided by Yahoo7. And they need more