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Blogging about Open Source, fonts, language technology, maps and random stuff happening wherever I am.

2006-05-17

Huge InterWiki dictionary

A few months back Patrick Hall from Blogamundo was wondering if InterWiki links could be use to produce lexicons useful for translation.
WikiWord is it. For those who wonder, InterWiki links are the links made between Wikipedia in different languages. WikiWord can translate, based on those links, but can also display the short introduction of each article as well as related terms. It's really well designed on the backend apparently. The interface needs some work to be used by our usual dude.

2006-05-04

01:02:03, 04/05/06

Counting up to six. This doesn't occur that often. Next time should be in about a thousand years.

2006-05-01

Google Maps adds most of Europe

Just noticed Google Maps now has roads for many European countries (Western, Central, Nordic and the road to Moscow). We can now plan road trips in Europe with Google Maps.