VisitBritain OK. I give up trying to say something that doesn’t involve ‘snow’. 07 Jan 2010 from web

chrisdeary I seriously wonder about people who allow Facebook to publicise the fact they’ve been playing Farmville and Mafia Wars all morning 08 Jan 2010 from TweetDeck

Umpf_PR Great campaign idea to raise awareness of breast cancer – http://tinyurl.com/y8sb3or 08 Jan 2010 from web

ben_cahoona Bad day at work? Not as bad as this. Absolute solid gold. Best ‘losing it’ vid I’ve ever …

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As well as the realtime translate (see above), Google’s also added a new feature to help English speakers pronounce and read non-roman languages like Chinese and Japanese.
Google’s also added text-to-speech support for English translations to Google Translate. Click the speaker icon and you’ll hear the translation. Watch the video below for Google’s explanation of the new features in Google Translate.

Have fun…
or as we say in Chinese…

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I uncovered a bit of a find whilst exploring the virtual test-tube racks (or should that be Rax?) of Google Labs last night.
Launched back in June, Google’s City Tours enables (in theory) you to create your own itineraries for city breaks and plots out a schedule on a map together with a proposed route.
According to the official description:
“Making holiday planning as easy as searching the web. City Tours helps you identify points of interest and plan multi-day trips to most major cities. You just specify the location of your hotel …

I guess I never really thought about it before, but the BBC’s role as a public broadcaster means that it feels that its blog content is liable to the same strict guidelines that are imposed on its TV and radio channels.
This manifested itself by the temporarily freezing of comment submissions on its political blogs during today’s European Parliamentary elections in the UK:

The following section of the BBC’s 2009 European Election Broadcasting Guidelines focuses on all online content:

4.1 BBC Online
The same guidelines as those for programmes will apply to BBC Editorial …

offgrid World Hunger is unacceptable. Let’s help. @HelpFightHunger http://bit.ly/vEGwn 28 May 2009 from web

jackschofield 12 Alphabets made of Objects (food, trucks etc), at Oddee http://bit.ly/1zkyFM 28 May 2009 from web

AlexGoodall I’ve found 4 tools that provide Click Tracking for Tweets. I’ve included them here http://cli.gs/37DLAg 29 May 2009 from web

CDMcKinnon 93 of top 100 brands don’t control their Twitter name – http://tinyurl.com/7b3fft 29 May 2009 from TweetDeck

saturngirl So just to recap. …

MarkIsMusing If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it. 28 May 2009 from web

petemarcus Why is PR the only industry where everyone is a “guru”? (Except Buddhism of course. Though not really an industry.) 28 May 2009 from web

FreshPlastic First Mills & McCartney, then Madonna & Guy, now AOL & Time Warner! But they all seemed so happy together, who would’ve thought? 28 May 2009 from web

golfforum Family see Jesus …

Event Wax – the Web based event organisation lubrication (their words, not mine) has announced today that it will be shutting down the service down completely on Thursday 16th July.

Whilst I signed up for Event Wax a few months back, I’m a keen Google Calendar user and have never really had any reason to stray from the Big G’s offering. That said, I have had brief flirtations with Meetup.com and have been known to use Facebook to organise private events.
Taking a closer look at Event wax, it was actually a …

jemimakiss Journalists restrained with CS gas at Parliament after a Tory meeting last night. Classy. 31 Mar 2009 from twitterrific

henweb Aussie bankers using twitter proves the value of keeping your customers happy online http://bit.ly/4A0yh 31 Mar 2009 from web

guinnessdj GUMAMI 31 Mar 2009 from TwitterGadget

Suw you know, all this automatic retweeting is really starting to piss me off. 31 Mar 2009 from twhirl

kaigani yet another reason why Sainsbury’s Self Checkout is full of fail …

Special shout out to @CharleyLHayes who features twice in today’s ToTD…

stickycricket Afternoon everyone WicketKeeper here …check out the guns here! http://bit.ly/d8qO2 30 Mar 2009 from web

CharleyLHayes What a Social Media Expert Should Be http://tinyurl.com/c8gwuc 30 Mar 2009 from web

CharleyLHayes Media on Twitter http://tinyurl.com/cnvyp2 30 Mar 2009 from web

AmberCadabra For those inquiring minds asking about quantifying the impact of community roles: http://tinyurl.com/cp83zs 30 Mar 2009 from TweetDeck

joannatidball My cats have knocked over a full-length mirror …

Schofe OMG I’ve just wasted 2 hours on Google street view looking through the windows of my old houses!! it’s unbelievable 26 Mar 2009 from TweetDeck

darenBBC Louis(8) ” Is the man that invented cigarettes in prison ?, because they kill you and if you kill people you have go to prison” 26 Mar 2009 from web

JasonBradbury Remembering yesterday’s Kite-wing experience. Just awesome http://twitpic.com/2gyyh 26 Mar 2009 …