Private Alpha Launch!

I am very excited about private alpha launch for Bloglation!

As I wrote in the "about" section, I got the idea after trying to translate Paul Graham's essay called "Why to not not start a startup". I thought it would be easy using Google Translate or Yahoo Bable Fish, but I was surprised at how bad and wrong the translation was. Machine translation is just not quite there yet. And I also happened to find Ryan Tomayko's "How I explained REST to my wife" and multiple translations listed on the site. REST (Representational State Transfer) is such a key to all web development that I believe all web developers must be at least aware of it. There are many web developers all over world, and it's important that we all strive to write good codes.

Basically, when it is important to convey right message from one language to another, machine translation is just not enough and human involvement is required.

With Bloglation, you can make correct translation and save the content so that others looking for the same translation can read the correct translation. There is also wiki aspect, where any logged-in user can make additional corrections. With permanent URL, you can share your translation with others. I am hoping that Bloglation could be used in spreading awesome knowledge, idea and/or concepts across any borders.

Some caveats:

1. Bloglation currently works greatly with only Wordpress blogs (like TechCrunch). If you see something that's not working, please let me know. I am going to add more cases to detect more than just Wordpress. I will post them here as I release them.
2. You may encounter some bugs. I would appreciate if you could let me know via email or via "Feedback" link on the left. In fact, send me any comments or recommendations!

I am taking release early and iterate fast/many approach. We will see how it will work out.

Next up on my plate is getting Paul Graham's essays work so that I can start making correct translations on Bloglation.