Viikii.net: a Youtube of translated videos
A friend of mine pointed out a cool site recently: Viikii.net --a sharing translation and subtitling platform for streaming video. Now everyone could help the world to understand and enjoy different language videos; just use the Viikii system and start translating and creating subtitles for that. Their community keeps growing and growing. A brilliant idea, right?
The Viikii blog writes:
ViiKii can be a break-through, imagine how you could watch all the fun videos out there in the world, ones you couldn’t even access cuz they were in all these different languages… you can practice language skills, or simply enjoy, and with all the other people doing the same, everyone’d get a step closer to ultimately understanding what goes on out there, and why. For this ‘dream come true,’ we need none other than YOUR help. Every single contribution you make to our ViiKii system, whether it’s just one word or sentence, will pave the way towards the realization of a grand cultural “Silk Road,” transmitting numerous local contents all over the world, beyond language barriers.
A writer of Web 2.0 Asia says:
The site's reputation system makes translators do a good job, and after a quick spin I find the general quality of translation very good. The site has clean design and has all necessary features like sharing, embedding, comments, etc. You can call this a YouTube of translated videos.
You can contribute your translations skill now!
Indonesian Ministry's porn filter blocks ads too
Fast Follow: Start following tweets on your phone even if you don't have an account!
Anyone in the US can receive Tweets on their phone even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter. This is a simple way for people to get information they care about in real-time. For example, let’s say you want to get Tweets from New York City’s office of emergency management (@NotifyNYC). Just text ‘follow NotifyNYC’ to 40404 in the US.
Twitter is also working with carriers to bring it to other countries.
[via Twitter Blog]
Alexa's top searches for budiputra.com
For me, it means that I should keep blogging about technology (mostly about gadgets) and, if possible, related to Asia. Thanks Alexa, and my site's readers, for giving me this clear directions!
Skype, the next cash machine?
Skype, the Internet telephony company with has 560 million registered users (biggger than Facebook's so far!), announced that it has filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $100 million.
Skype’s decision to go public is a result of the company turning into a cash machine. It currently has 560 million registered users and about 124 million of them are active on monthly basis, while about 8.1 million of them are monthly paying users — who on average pay $96 a year for the service. Any increase in the number of average monthly paying users is going to help the company erase any losses and goose up its revenues.
[via GigaOM]
Android TweetDeck, starting beta test this week
To get straight to the point, we're nearing completion of Android TweetDeck and we've really been pushing the limits of what Android can do. Hence we will be opening up a public beta testing period this week for some serious device testing. But before all that happens I wanted to briefly explain what Android TweetDeck means to us because it's more than just TweetDeck on Android.First off, we've built Android TweetDeck from the ground up to be true multi-stream, laser focused on showing you all your friends' cross-service activity in one app. Multi-column is still the order of the day but now columns are blended based on the type of activity rather than the service. And all this whilst retaining the most powerful functionality from each included service.We've spent an inordinate amount of time making the app silky smooth from the column scrolling to the custom views - so much so that one of Google's Android Developer Advocates recently described it as "a thing of beauty". So look out for the beta test later this week and please do get involved.
[via TweetDeck blog]
PayPal launches new Android app
"Split the check is another great feature, which lets you automatically calculate the total cost of a bill and then collect money directly from friends when out to dinner," according to Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mobile.
Indonesian couple founded a billion dollar Silicon Valley company
Indonesian filmmaker among Twitter's most influential handles
According to this study, the following is Twitter's most influential accounts:
@mashable, @jokoanwar, @google, @aplusk, @syfy, @smashingmag, @michellemalkin,@theonion, @rww, @breakingnews"A unique analysis of influence on Twitter shows that an obscure Indonesian filmmaker is just as good at propagating memes as @Google..."
[via Technology Review]
Finally, my Posterous site is up!
Got noticed this morning that Posterous site is down due to a denial of service (DoS) attack, then got an email from Posterous telling some instructions since I am one of Posterous' custom domain users. Then I tried to follow the instructions --it works well! My budiputra.com is back! Thanks Posterous, good job!
We're contacting you because you are using a custom domain for your Posterous site which means your site remains under attack and may still be inaccessible.If your site uses a custom domain and is still down, please accept our most sincere apology. There are two options for you at this point: 1. Do nothing. At some point, the DoS attack will cease, and we will again be responding to our primary address. This could be several minutes from now, several hours, or several days. There's no way of knowing, but your site will automatically start working properly as soon as the attack is over. 2. Change your domain to point to our new address. We have set up a new address that is not being attacked and can successfully accept traffic. If you want to point your server to this address, you may do so, and we'll allow traffic on both addresses for the forseeable future. To change servers, follow the following instructions, substituting our old address with our new address: 209.20.70.130 Instructions
- Log into your DNS host, which is usually your registrar (the company you purchased your domain from)
- Look for how to edit your domain's DNS (this varies from registrar to registrar)
- You'll see an A record for our old address (67.207.139.81) for your main domain (sometimes called @)
- Remove 67.207.139.81 and replace it with 209.20.70.130
- Save your settings and wait (it could take anywhere for a couple minutes to a couple hours for the changes to kick in)
