March 2008

Language translation in Gmail and GTalk

by Sujoy on March 28, 2008

GMail

Talk about integration. Google is bringing its translation tool into its Mail service and GTalk so says, Computerworld. There are already bots available to facilitate this service. However, there is a fair chance of the translation service being inaccurate similar to its translation tool, but while talking to a person with no common language of communication, this addition might actually help a lot in getting a fair idea of the conversation.

Google’s Matt Glotzbach said:-

What you need for real-time automated machine translation is large amounts of compute power, which we have, and large amounts of data, which we have. Imagine a system that can do on-the-fly translation of things like e-mail, documents and IM chat. That’s a feature you can see on the horizon,

There are still a lot to go for GTalk and GMail’s integrated chat as far as the features that other IM clients offer, We are yet to see a Webcam facility on GTalk, Chatrooms and of course call facility in Gmail and perhaps Skype-style phone calls in GTalk. Google is also working towards providing a cheaper solution to the present pricey options for videoconferencing. Are we looking at the dawn of a Big Goog Communication Expo soon?

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Links for 2008-03-28

by Sujoy on March 28, 2008

Nothing is actually special about today. Just another day at work. And I am just whiling away my time reading posts from Bloglines and my Stumble Upon Toolbar. Nevertheless, I am doing some good for the blogging world by contributing my links for the day. So here they are.

Techcrunch: The Music Industry’s New Extortion Scheme

Search Engine Land: Drilling Into Google’s Decline In Paid Clicks

Copywrite Link: Reading Minds: Neuro Persuasion

Torrentfreak: TorrentSpy Shuts Down

Up-Start Blogger: The Rise and Fall of the A-List Bloggers

Ostatic: Yahoo is the Reason for Microsoft’s New Open Source Stance

Ars Technica: Online safety begins with parents, not laws and government

A List Apart: Sign Up Forms Must Die

Coding Horror: The First Rule of Programming: It’s Always Your Fault

I am sorry that I couldn’t post my links for the day due to unavailability of my website. I hope to be more regular from now on. My laptop arrives in two days So wish me luck!! Happy readig Techkeyla. Cheers!!!

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WordpressYes, I ran into troubled water yet again. My webmaster decided to shift my server to a new one, and hence had to go through the process of backing up my blogs, and getting them up again from scratch. It is indeed a pain, at least it was for me. I made a whole list of blunders and I screwed up badly. The result, my blog went offline for a whole 3 days. How frustrating it is to find your blog’s main page set to a white background displaying “Error in establishing database connection”. So this is what you should actually do when you backup your WordPress, and get ready for setting your blog on a new server.

Things to remember:

Have your wp-content folder in wordpress backed up , including your uploads, images, plugins and themes. I forgot to do it, and my last minute panic was a definite qualifier for the YouTube humor Video Awards. If you DON’t do this, what you’ll end up seeing is your lovely blog set to the default WordPress Classic theme. Trust me, it HURTS.

(I am not mentioning the other details involved with shifting of the DNS or namespaces etc. My assumption is, that you have your URL ready and directed to the server where you are about to setup your already existing blog.)

So, here we go. First, as mentioned in my previous post, have your backup database ready. Ensure that it has been properly downloaded and that the file isn’t corrupt. Try opening the SQL file in a text editor like Notepad or Wordpad and you should be able to read the contents. The SQL contains your DB Name. Remember this is the DB name which you are gonna use. [Continue Reading]

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Links for 2008-03-21

by Sujoy on March 21, 2008

It’s Holi today, a traditional color-fest where countless hues mingle and people rejoice. A celebration this colorful is totally unmatched. So, Happy Holi to all my readers. And here we go, here are today’s links.

Mashable: Yahoo’s Answer plus Twitter

Jason Falls-SME: Role of Anonymity in Social Media

Dosh Dosh:12 Must have tools for active Diggers

10e20:Confessions of a Search Addict

Valleywag: Google is your new GOD

Chris Brogan: How I tamed my Inbox

Gigaom: Introducing OStatic;the opensource blog 

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