From the July NY Tech Meetup(七月份NY Tech Meetup)
Jim Stogdill
2008/07/02
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The lead off talk was from Transclick. Founded by an ex hedge fund manager (hedge fund managers leaving to do tech startups, things that make you go hmmm), Transclick does real time translation among 16 languages for IM, SMS, email for mobile devices. They are also beginning to leverage voice recognition tied to the translation engine. They've been around for a while and pretty widely discussed and feted so no need to add much more here. However, one interesting note came up during the Q+A. When asked about Twitter, Robert Levin, Transclick's CEO, claimed to be in negotiations to add language translation to the micro blogging service. Of course that will be great, as now native speaking spammers from all over the world will be able to follow me with less effort. A few other quick mentions... Pluribo is using natural language processing to summarize user reviews on Amazon.com. Delivered for now as a Firefox plugin, it analyzes a stream of user comments to find key words that relate to user concerns and automagically create a brief summary. Hovering over the key words in the summary brings up nice visuals that describe overall customer sentiment or issues to pay attention to for the item. Daily Lit is either really great or mildly depressing depending on your point of view. Delivering books in bits and pieces via email or RSS, it is designed to fit literature into our harried lives through the channels we are already paying attention to. I can't decide if that is really cool or if it's like occasionally dropping a pearl into a Skinner box. Pellet, pellet, pellet, omg!!, Vronksy shot himself, pellet, pellet, pellet... Cause Caller is a great example of the web's generativity in action. Fred Benenson's NYU thesis, it combines Media Wiki, Asterisk, and EC2 so that an individual citizen can describe a cause, link it to the politicians that might most readily influence the outcome, publish a call script, and automate the dialing. The most active cause on the site today is "say no to Telecom Immunity." If you'd like to take a look at the rest of the projects that presented, they are Wakozi (a NYC-based delivery service), Cloudsmith (a cloud-spanning distro mapper), and Independence Year ("a workflow engine for taking the country back"). |
翻译:xiaochong 昨天晚上我参加了NY Tech Meetup，大概有400人，在West 18th Street IAC的大厅。有些像Ignite，但是没有前面的幻灯片部分和现场酒吧。 7个个人或团队介绍了他们的项目，每部分5分钟。 开场的讲话来自于Transclick。这是一个前对冲基金经理创建的公司（对冲基金经理来开创科技公司，呵呵），作移动设备上即时通信、短信、电子邮件的实时翻译，包括16种语言。他们也开始将翻译引擎和语音识别结合。他们已经出现一段时间并且被广泛讨论和褒奖，我在此无需赘言。但是会议的Q+A部分有一个有趣的消息。当谈到Twitter的时候，Transclick的CEO Robert Levin说他们正在与其谈判在其中加入语言翻译功能。这当然很不错，估计全世界的Spammer都将可以轻松跟踪我了。 其他一些信息…… Pluribo在使用自然语言处理技术统计amazon.com上用户的评论。现在是作为Firefox插件。它能够分析用户评论流，找出与用户相关的关键词，自动生成总结。指到总结中的关键词上就会看到客户感受和需要注意的问题的描述。 Daily Lit真地很难讲是让该高兴还是有些沮丧，这取决于你的看法。它将书分成很多零碎的部分通过电子邮件或RSS来发送，通过这些大家已经重视的渠道把文学作品发给你，以此来适应我们苦难的生活。搞不清这到底是进步还是悲哀。 Cause Caller是Web生产力的一个巨大的榜样。源于Fred Benenson在纽约大学的论文，Cause Caller组合了Media Wiki、Asterisk以及EC2，个人可以建立一个Cause，将其连接到可能影响结果的政治家，做一个呼叫文本，然后拨号。今天网站上最活跃的Cause是“拒绝电信豁免法案”。 其他有趣的项目还有Wakozi（纽约的一个递送服务）、Cloudsmith（云计算组件服务）以及Independence Year（一个挽救这个国家的引擎）。 |
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