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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!
18 interesting firsts on the Internet
Just discovered an interesting list, 18 first different things on the Internet [brief] history, thanks to the TechReaders site!
- The First Email: Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses in 1971.
- The First Ever Domain Name: "symbolics.com" registered by computer manufacturer Symbolics (now obsolete) on 15th March 1985.
- The First SPAM Email Ever: Gary Thuerk sent spam email messages to 393 people on ARPANET on 3rd May 1978.
- The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility: Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996, Finland).
- The First Ever Website: Info.cern.ch which was launched in late 1990.
- The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction: NetMarket that claims to process first ever secure transaction on the web on August 11, 1994.
- The First Ever Online Bank: Stanford Federal Credit Union that provides Online Internet Banking services to all of its customers in October, 1994.
- The First Ever Search Engine: WebCrawler.com which was launched in 1994.
- The First Ever Blog: Justin Halls is considered the first blogger who started a web diary in 1994. [The term webblog was introduced in 1997 which later led to “blog” in 1999].
- The First Ever Podcast: Dave Winer added audio content into the RSS feeds on January 11, 2001.
- The First Item Ever Sold on eBay: A broken laser pointer worth $14.83.
- The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter [1995].
- The first edit on Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder when doing a test edit with text “Hello, World!”
- The First Ever Video on YouTube: "Me at the Zoo" video put by the the cofounder of YouTube Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
- The First Ever Message on Twitter: It was a demonstration message with text “just setting up my twttr” by the creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey on 21st March 2006.
- The First Ever Voice Chat Service: Rocket Messenger.
- The First Ever Website Hacked: Federal websites that included US Department of Justic, U.S. Air Force, CIA, and NASA in 1990.
- The First Ever Social Network Site: Friendster.com which was launched in 2002.
