Frivolous Friday Fun: 2009-01-30

TinEye
At first blush, a site like TinEye may seem like a frivolous waste of time. TinEye is Idée’s image identification-based web search engine, currently in beta. It allows you to upload an image from your local hard drive or point to a remote image using its URL address. After a second or [...]

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Frivolous Friday Fun: 2009-01-23

Fun with Machine Translation: Instant Messaging with Instant Translation
As their website proclaims, “MeGlobe™ is fun and easy to use”. While employing machine translation may be fun to use in an instant messaging environment to talk to friends or acquaintances around the globe, it may also turn into funny which is why it made today’s [...]

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Frivolous Friday Fun: 2009-01-09

Connotation analysis
While reading about the new Palm Pre which runs on Palm’s new operating system WebOS, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday I came across a posting “Palm’s new OS and the importance of connotation assessments” on ProZ.com by contributor Claudia Alvis.

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Frivolous Friday Fun: 2009-01-02

Happy New Year! Let’s start the year off right with some humor – in case you have never visited Engrish.com, do yourself a favor now and check it out!
http://engrish.com
P.S. Some may not be safe for work (NSFW), so caveat emptor.

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Frivolous Friday Fun: 2008-12-19

What do you call Crowdsourcing in Germany?

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Frivolous Friday Fun: 2008-12-12

Check out this clever ad (requires the latest Adobe Flash plugin):
http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii
which promptly got imitated – imitation is the sincerest form of flattery:
http://games.yahoo.com
Enjoy your Friday.

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