Facebook translated overnight by a flood of volunteers
Wikinomics contributor Ming Kwan brings us some exciting news from Facebook HQ: Europeans are so eager to get localized Facebook running that they are translating it for free online.
It has been so popular that Facebook has introduced translations for specific Spanish locales like Spain, Mexico, Chile and Venezuela…The German translation was next and took less than two weeks with around 2,000 contributors.
Huge growth in business and education software for Apple’s handheld computing platform
Ben Lorica at the indispensable O’Reilly Radar blog dove into the new iPhone/iPod App Store catalog and whipped up some eye-popping charts. While the store is predictably dominated by games, the education and business sections of the store are growing quickest, with education apps seeing 200% growth in under a month.
I’m rediscovering my iPod touch as a handheld PC this week. With GMail, Google Reader, Facebook, Twitter, and this site I’ve got nearly all of my evening web destinations in the palm of my hand! It would be wonderful to see bottom-up growth in mobile computing for education and businesses. iPhones are a lot more fun than Blackberries, and I can’t wait to get my hands on an Android/Symbian phone.
For knowledge workers, half-finished tasks equal wasted time
This piece (thanks MPD!) explains why it’s so easy to work at the computer all day without getting anything done: “Half-completed knowledge work doesn’t mature with age, like fine wine. It gets stale and crumbles like bread.” Learn how to control your work day by breaking everything down into manageable tasks and actually finishing them.
