aLive Dictionary.

Recently Google has announced Ajax Language API. So, I've implemented my aLive Dictionary :). This is a very first approach but you can check it out here. I've tested it under Firefox 2.0/Opera 9.5, and I know there are some bugs under IE6.0/IE7.0. Anyway I would highly appreciate any comments :)!

Hope you enjoy it.

Podcast service.

I know why I have no comments in my blog: You have no time to visit this page, read it and certainly write an answer. That's easy and is okay.

So why can't we eliminate these unnecessary steps "Visit" and "Read", leaving only a "Post Comment"? We have some time traveling to work and back... Honestly, I prefer listening audio books while walking back home (if there is no good company to share my walk).

Here is the idea: Provide real-time podcasting service to bloggers/news sites. In the morning site visitors could select blogs/news/articles they would like to listen to and receive narrated version in the evening. Or visitors could subscribe to audio-version of a blog (eliminating "Visit" step).

You can outsource this service to India/xUSSR/China. Of course narrators should have great speaking skills.

How can this bring money? Easy: context audio ads are more than suitable here...

Unfortunately I cannot give you narrated version of this post... yet :).

Hi!

Roots of this idea are described in the previous post. I truly believe that:

• Either it will be implemented by Google soon
• Or it is already implemented by someone else, but I didn't heard about it yet.
  

aLive Dictionary

The idea is to provide on the Google's dictionary page not only results of translation but also the most relevant picture to the word being translated from the Google's image search (or form the Flickr, if they could negotiate an agreement). Furthermore Google could provide an image that corresponds to the query in the source language and one in the destination language.

I like this idea because:

• Remember foreign word is much easier when you have an image corresponding to the word in your head.
• Using dictionary becomes more attractive: you never know what internet can offer you.
• Google can use this technique to improve their Google Image Labeler.
  

I don't like this idea because:

• Image uses space on your monitor. And not all people may find them useful.
  

Okay, here is an example. For say, you wanna know what does "Вдохновение" mean. And here are result:

Вдохновение	Inspiration

Now you have an association to this word, and its harder to forget it ;).

Hi :)!

This is my very first post here, and I'm happy, doing this in English.

I have a suggestion to the Google (which won't be ever heard, but that doesn't matter): Launch a space ship out there, into the deep space, process pictures and create real-time video online. It will be great to fly with Google because not everyone of us would see the real space. Furthermore, when Google will find aliens, dudes-from-space (and I'm sure, it will) - that would be great advertisement for the company :). E.g. aliens could think that entire Earth is named "Google" :).

What do you think?