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Yamli’s Dynamic Translator Project

Written by jessica. Posted on March 25, 2010. Filed under Arabization. Tagged , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Screenshot of Yamli dynamic translator
Yamli has launched a tool that lets you edit the machine translation almost as you type. Based on Google’s translation API and consisting of a simple set up of two side-by-side boxes, users type in the original language in the left-hand box and watch as the machine translation is generated in real time on the [...]

Grant Opportunities: What We Came Up with for the GeoChallenge

Written by jessica. Posted on December 9, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , . No comments.
Last Tuesday (apologies for the late post), several of us met at the RootSpace to discuss how we might use mapping to strengthen civil society in Lebanon. The exercise was inspired by the announcement of Google’s Geo Challenge, which invites submissions until December 22, 2008, for online mapping ideas in one of five core areas: [...]

Put Lebanon on the Web 2.0 Map!—And Win $100,000

Written by jessica. Posted on November 27, 2008. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . No comments.
This week, Google.org, Google’s philanthropic arm, has announced a competition called the Geo Challenge. We’d like to enter the competition but not as Social Media Exchange alone. Instead, we’re calling on all who are interested—civil society partners and colleagues, and civic-minded journalists, businesspeople, and entrepreneurs, too—to join us in brainstorming ways to use online mapping [...]