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 column Frivolous Friday Fun.
Over time this IM clients will get smarter and their value proposition can no longer be ignored. You can “just type in your own language and MeGlobe™ instantly translates your message into the language of your chat buddy!” One can only hope that with MeGlobe™ you don’t get ‘lost in translation.’
If you want to try out IM Chat with Language Translation, check it out at:
http://meglobe.com/
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.
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!
P.S. Some may not be safe for work (NSFW), so caveat emptor.
What do you call Crowdsourcing in Germany?
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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