Nativetext Promises To Translate Feeds

By Steve Rubel
Expert Author
Article Date: 2006-02-19

If you're interested in seeing the future of the Web, look no further than this gigundo list of Web apps developed using Ruby on Rails.


I am putting up links to a bunch of these on my linkblog. Some are operating, others are just placeholder sites.

One Web app. that really stands out is nativetext. This site promises to fulfill a really important need in the emerging world of consumer generated media. It will translate RSS feeds from blogs and podcasts into foreign languages. The list of languages is really long - Spanish, French, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Hungarian, Czech, Greek, Portugese, Russian, German and more. The site isn't in beta yet, but I can't wait to give it a go.

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About the Author:
Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.

He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.

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