台湾的Portnoy和ilya等人组织了GVO翻译计划,将英文的Globla Voices Online的内容翻译成中文,真是一个有意思的尝试。从地方语言到作为Lingua Franca的英语,再返回我们的母语,我们在语言上绕了那么一个圈,那么视角和效果又如何呢?
他们的中文简体版目前由CNBlog提供支持,繁体版则在Yam(大陆须代理)。令人佩服的是他们有效地利用社会性交流工具来进行翻译工作的协同,包括Wiki和Google Group
The developers at FeedBurner have been acting like a bunch of kids in the back of a station wagon lately ... "When's our next Hackathon?! Tell Chris to stop touching me!" After our last two successful endeavors, the Hackathon has become the anticipated event of the season here at FeedBurner HQ. One day spent exclusively working on pet projects that aren't on the Gantt chart. It's just like a Google engineer's "20% time," except, well, this is our third one in about a year, so let's call it "FeedBurner's 1.41% time."
This past Friday, June 16th, we all showed up in the conference room early in the morning, proposed our ideas, and came up with the gameplan. We then went immediately into "can't talk now" mode, frantically coding for an end-of-day presentation. When the buzzer sounded, the pizza and beer went down fast as everyone showed off their hacks, captivating the room and eliciting tears of joy from the business team who no longer had to run customer support for the day (if somebody answered your question on Friday using the word Adam instead of Atom, please resubmit your question).
While all of this is a lot of fun for us, it's usually a lot more fun for publishers when we get to unveil a bunch of new features, tweaks and services all at once. Here they are, as described by the developers themselves:
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Very soon, we will release a feature of Windows Live Search built into Windows Live Messenger that we think will help you while chatting with your friends. Tell us what you think! You can try this new Search feature from the activities menu of conversation window, it includes our three most popular scoped search features – Web, News and Images. These scoped results are based on Windows Live Search, so you get the same results as if you were searching on live.com.
Have you ever been chatting with a friend, decided to see a movie together, but had to open up a new browser window to see what time the movie was? Now, life is easy. You can preview a result within Messenger and send the result link to your friend by clicking one button.
For image search result, you can drag/drop it to set it as your conversation window background or your Display picture, or even send this image to your friend.
We use Atlas framework (Microsoft AJAX technology) to build up this feature, which makes our UI more smooth and comfortable. Since we use asynchronous call to get the search results from backend web service, we can render our page layout dynamically. That’s why user won’t feel any page refresh while loading the results. Best of all, the user can preview the first result while other results are still loading their content.
In our future release, more exciting features are planned. When a new search scope is launched for live.com, it will be automatically available for our Messenger users.
If you have more feedback than you want to give in the comment section of this blog, please go to the links below….
For web:
For news:
For image:
We are reading every piece of feedback we receive and will response to comments as soon as we can. So if you have any comments or feature suggestions just post below or use the feedback link
-- Joseph Yao, Program Manager
On behalf of the Search Pane team
Betsynote: 5:40 pm June 20 - we had to edit this post after submitting because, well, we jumped the gun in our excitement. When the feature is properly live, we will confirm it is live on the blog...but in the meantime, be watching for it.