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Twitter has quietly removed Bing translation from its mobile apps and web platform

Aug08
by on August 8, 2014 at 6:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Updates

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A useful translation feature (albeit poorly executed at times) appears to have disappeared from Twitter’s platform, less than two months after the company quietly rolled it out. The feature allowed people to use Microsoft’s Bing translation engine to translate tweets with the tap of a button. One reason for the Bing translation feature’s disappearance could be that it wasn’t very reliable. @MartinSFP @jonrussell @nisummers in other news, Twitter for Web thinks I’m speaking norwegian pic.twitter.com/BtvL6FRnHI — Natt Garun (@nattgarun) June 24, 2014 A Twitter spokesperson declined to comment when contacted by TNW. However, Twitter has been known to dabble in new…

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SlimWiki makes it easy to create attractive, mobile-friendly private pages for your company

Aug08
by on August 8, 2014 at 5:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, slimwiki

If you’re seeking a private space online for your company — perhaps to host internal documents, guides or more — then SlimWiki is a new arrival that should feature on your shortlist. The site lets you put together wikis and other private documents with an aesthetically pleasing, multimedia-rich design. SlimWiki uses drag and drop to make creating pages a cinch, while its responsive design means it is optimized for mobile. The service lets administrators grant colleagues access as editors or in a read-only capacity, with all changes tracked clearly.  Here’s one I made earlier, before I got hungry… The site is free to use…

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SlimWiki makes it easy to create attractive, mobile-friendly private pages for your company

Aug08
by on August 8, 2014 at 5:39 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, slimwiki

If you’re seeking a private space online for your company — perhaps to host internal documents, guides or more — then SlimWiki is a new arrival that should feature on your shortlist. The site lets you put together wikis and other private documents with an aesthetically pleasing, multimedia-rich design. SlimWiki uses drag and drop to make creating pages a cinch, while its responsive design means it is optimized for mobile. The service lets administrators grant colleagues access as editors or in a read-only capacity, with all changes tracked clearly.  Here’s one I made earlier, before I got hungry… The site is free to use…

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