Sunday, August 30, 2009
Website of the day
Scribd began with a simple observation — that the desire for self-expression through the written word is as old as humanity itself. But even with the proliferation of blogs and other self-publishing tools, there was no easy way for average people to publish to a readership of millions.
Today, Scribd is the largest social publishing company in the world — the website where more than 60 million people each month discover and share original writings and documents.
Scribd’s vision is to liberate the written word — to turn everyone into a publisher and create the best possible reading experience on the web and mobile platforms.
"... the idea behind Scribd is that everyone has a lot of documents sitting around on their computers that only they can read."
Quick Facts
Tens of millions of readers every month
Millions of documents shared
More than 35 billion words
More than 5 million iPaper embeds
90 different languages
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Website of the day
Today's website is http://www.quillpad.com/, great online Indian language typing tool. You can write in 10 Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu etc with its online editor. For example, type 'aap kaise hain' in the Quillpad editor and it will convert it directly into Devanagari script. You can save or email your message. Quillpad can also predict if multiple words are possible for your input. You can click on the word to select from those options. In addition Quillpad allows you to type English words freely in between Hindi words. It intelligently transliterates them into Hindi.
Quillpad uses a superior mechanism to transform English words to Indian English way of writing in Indian languages, automatically. It is not based on manually added limited words set.
Best way to see how Quillpad works for multiple languages is to see what users are talking about it. Check out Quillpad Forums. Developers know how to read or write only Hindi, Kannada and Telugu, but Quillpad is currently trained for 8 languages. They didn't need any linguistics expert to help us achieve this. Quillpad does it automatically, the Machine Learning way!
Quillpad Free Widget, Quillpad Free Widget comes with a single language transliteration support and you can choose your preferred language while registration. You can change your preferred language by logging in to your account anytime later. Quillpad Free Widget can be used only on non-commercial and personal websites.
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