Windows Live Translator  —  Darren Straight has been snooping around some Windows Live Translator domain names, and today, for the first time, the Windows Live Translator beta site is live.  According to Darren, the following urls are now working:  — translator.live.com  — translate.live.com

Source:   LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews
Author:   Kip Kniskern
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danah continues the “precious,” er, Facebook conversation…  danah boyd continues the conversation.  danah (she doesn’t capitalize her name) is one of our industry’s top researchers about social software.  —  Actually now that Milan (our new son) is coming I’m finding myself a lot more in her camp than previously.

Source:   Scobleizer
Author:   Robert Scoble
Link:   […]

RFID implants linked to cancer in lab tests  —  As if pain, conspiracy, big brother, and lack of necessity weren’t already enough to deter you, the average Joe or Jane, from getting a subcutaneous RFID chip implant, a number of studies over the past decade have amassed which link the chips to malignant tumors in […]

Rainbow Hash Cracking  —  The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast.  How fast?  It can crack the password “Fgpyyih804423″ in 160 seconds.  Most people would consider that password fairly secure.  The Microsoft password strength checker rates it “strong”.

Source:   Coding Horror
Author:   Jeff Atwood
Link:   http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000949.html

Microsoft Launches Translation Service  —  Microsoft launched a service for automatic translation called Windows Live Translator.  The site lets you translate a text limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.

Source:   Google Operating System
Author:   Ionut Alex Chitu
Link:   http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/microsoft…

Even in a Virtual World, ‘Stuff’ Matters  —  IT’S payday for Janine Hawkins.  Not in the real world, where she is a student at Nipissing University in Ontario, but in the online world of Second Life, where she is managing editor of the fashion magazine Second Style.

Source:   New York Times
Author:   Shira Boss
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How To Be Habbo Hotel - Tips on Going Global  —  Sulake Labs, the VC-backed Finnish startup behind Habbo Hotel and IRC Galleria is a success story that by now offers up a few lessons for other social networking and roleplaying business.  —  Founded way back in 2000, it has come a long way since […]

Weekend Feature: The How of Habbo Hotel  —  How did a small Finnish company create an online world which now boasts the largest current active user base in Europe and North America (about 6.5 million)*, far larger than World of Warcraft (around 4.5 million, not counting its Chinese audience)?

Source:   GigaOM
Author:   Wagner James Au
Link: […]

Virtual Worlds Are The Future Of Global Commerce: ICANN CEO  —  In a wide ranging keynote address at the 2007 Influence Forum, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey told the audience that virtual worlds are the future of global commerce.  —  Twomey used The Sims Online as an example of the sort of interface …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author: […]

Singularity Summit 2007: Designing rational self-improving AI  —  I interviewed Steve Omohundro prior to the Singularity Summit 2007 about his notions of developing artificial general intelligences (AGIs), but he went into far more detail about his views.  He applies what he called …

Source:   Between the Lines
Author:   Dan Farber
Link:   http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6181