Microsoft Research have been working on a way to translate the vast quantity of Wikipedia content from one language to another. They’ve developed a tool, and it’s now going open source. From the Wikimedia blog: Enter WikiBhasha, formerly known as WikiBABEL, which launches today as both a MediaWiki extension project and a bookmarklet. WikiBhasha takes [...]
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Wikipedia translation tool WikiBhasha goes open source
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
Taking paper books back to their source
October 12th, 2010 · No Comments · humor
I should shoot a similar photo for ebooks, only this one would have a SD card and a chunk of silicon. flickr via password incorrect
Liquidware announce open source EDK (e-reader development kit)
September 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, press release
Do you recall the DIY e-reader kit I showed you a few days ago? Well, the developers have put out a press release announcing this device as an $ 421 open source EDK. You might want to read my previous post; it has a video, and links to the product page & the developer’s blog [...]
Tags:announce·development·edk·ereader·kit·liquidware·open·source
CompletelyNovel.com add Lightning Source as POD partner, will launch ebookstore next year
August 26th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: CompletelyNovel.com has expanded the printing options available to the writers and publishers within its online community. Working with Lightning Source, CompletelyNovel customers can now select from a number of options to print their books in the UK and United States. Instead of having to create separate accounts with printing companies, writers [...]
Tags:add·completelynovelcom·ebookstore·launch·lightning·partner·pod·source·year
The Que didn’t ship yesterday (my source was right)
June 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, Uncategorized
So if you’ve been following the story on Engadget, you know that the PlasticLogic Que didn’t ship yesterday and that they’ve canceled all orders. I am both surprised and not surprised. I wasn’t surprised because I had a source who didn’t think they would ship the Que. He was why I posted the reminder on [...]
NPR takes their Android app open source
June 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, software news
NPR announced on their blog last week: In the spirit of the Android operating system, we’ve decided to make the code for NPR’s app public. We believe this matches perfectly with NPR’s public service mission. Public media implies our audiences have a stake in our product, and open source projects are a means to better [...]
Introducing FlexPaper – Open Source PDF Viewer
March 28th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
I just came across a new PDF viewer by the name of FlexPaper. It was developed by the Devaldi group out of Auckland. It has a similar set of features to Adobe Reader, and because it’s Flash based it can be embedded in another page (Reader has only a full screen mode). FlexPaper is an [...]
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