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Twitter May Be Prepping Auto-Translate Option

Source: PC Magazine
March 27, 2010

Twitter appears to be preparing to roll out a feature that would automatically translate posts into your preferred native language, according to a Twitter page I saw today. Last October, Twitter's Biz Stone authored a blog post that indicated that Twitter would soon be arriving languages beyond Twitter's native English and Japanese, including French, Italian, German, and Spanish. But that post, I believe, was designed to announce translations to the Web site (including words like “following,") rather than translating the ...

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Interview: Mike King of Berkleemusic and Online Music Marketing with Topspin (PT. 2)

Source: HypeBot
March 26, 2010

Read Part One

This is part two of my interview with Mike King.For those of you who may not be familiar, Mike (@atomzooey)is Associate Director of Marketing at Berkleemusic, Berklee College of Music's online school and author of Music Marketing: Press, Promotion, Distribution, and Retail, which you can get a free chapter of here.

Now, to maintain a certain degree of objectivity here and, at the same time, address an issue that's sure to be brought up in ...

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Youtube Down, Wikipedia Hit Yesterday

Source: HypeBot
March 26, 2010

(Update 2) Two sites that land at the top of almost every music searches have been hit hard within the last 24 hours.

As of 8:26 AM EDT Thursday, YouTube.com returned the error message: Http/1.1 Service Unavailable. The problems had begun a couple of hours earlier, but YouTube videos embedded on other sites including Hypebot were still playable according to a quick survey.

UPDATE: YouTube is back up. Downtown was about 2+ hours.

Yesterday, Wikipedia was down for several hours ...

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Internet Agency Approves Domains in Native Scripts

Source: All About Jazz
March 25, 2010

Four countries and two territories have won preliminary approval to have Internet addresses written entirely in their native scripts as early as this summer.

However, proposals for Internet addresses that would say “China" and “Taiwan" in Chinese will require a few more months of technical review. The delay is not over political disputes, but rather because the Chinese language can be written in two ways -- using simplified and traditional scripts. Rules are being developed to make sure that ...

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Sneak Peek at Instapaper for iPad

Source: Michael Ricci
March 25, 2010

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Interview: Mike King of Berkleemusic and Online Music Marketing with Topspin (PT. 1)

Source: HypeBot
March 25, 2010

Kyle Bylin (@kbylin), Associate Editor

(UPDATED) Over the course of the last ten weeks, I've had the pleasure of taking Online Music Marketing with Topspin through Berkleemusic with Mike King (@atomzooey)as my instructor. Though, to be sure, I'm likely to a biased opinion of the course -- for some reasons I can account for and others that I'm not as obvious to - I have to honestly say that I've thoroughly enjoyed the class and have thus far gained deeper ...

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Google Official Calls for Action on Web Restrictions

Source: Michael Ricci
March 25, 2010

A top Google executive on Wednesday called for new rules to put pressure on governments that filter the Internet, saying the practice was hindering international trade. Alan Davidson, director of United States public policy for Google, told a joint Congressional panel that the United States should consider withholding development aid for countries that restrict certain Web sites. He said censorship had become more than a human rights issue and was hurting profit for foreign companies that rely on the Internet ...

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GoDaddy Stops Selling Chinese Domains over Censorship Concerns

Source: All About Jazz
March 25, 2010

GoDaddy, the nets largest domain-name registrar, announced Wednesday it would stop selling .cn domain names, saying it was unwilling to comply with new rules from the Chinese government that require new and existing .cn domain-name holders to provide photo ID. The announcement comes just two days after Google redirected its censored Google.cn search engine to its uncensored service in Hong Kong, after a dramatic statement in January that it was no longer willing to run a censored search engine. GoDaddys ...

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