Sunday 2011-02-06

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No matter what language you speak, much of what happens around the world isn’t in your language. Fortunately, Twitter and Google have teamed up to autotranslate tweets for you. If you aren’t already doing this, you will never look at Twitter the same way again, I promise you!

How to follow the REAL situation in #Egypt

http://blog.tweetsmarter.com/twitter-community/how-to-auto-translate-tweets-in-other-languages/
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/google-facebook-end-passwords-get-biometrics-now/15793

Google, Facebook: End Passwords, Get Biometrics. Now!

With the multitudes of accounts we have to deal with for email, social networking and other applications that require password authentication, the risk of compromise is too great. We need a better solution. So this morning I did the usual.

A Look at DNA in Genealogy - The Geni Blog

Although DNA testing has been around for a while, only recently have genealogists started using DNA to help trace the origins of their ancestors. http://www.geni.com/blog/a-look-at-dna-in-genealogy-320731.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20030786-94/android-app-released-for-googles-blogger/ The Google-owned Blogger network has released a free app designed to enable people who have built their blogs on the Blogger platform to easily update them from their Android smartphones. Unveiled this week, the program lets people bang out copy, and take photos with their phones, from directly inside the app--and then either publish their words and images straightaway or save a draft for later. Posts and drafts can be viewed directly in the app or, by way of a quickly accessible menu, in a browser.

Blogger releases Android smartphone app | Wireless