Facebook Vanity URLs Coming Saturday

UPDATE: An "on your mark, get set" announcement has been posted on the official Facebook Blog.  According to designer Blaise DiPersia, it'll be time to "go" at 12:01 AM (EDT) this Saturday, the 13th.  DiPersia also provided the following screenshots if you're curious about what the setup screen and end result should look like. Original article: Generally speaking, it's much easier to remember the name of…

Google Puts Human Touch Into Machine Translation

Google has announced the launch of the Google Translator toolkit, an editor designed to give translators an easy means of bringing the "human touch" to machine translation, which everybody knows is often flawed.

Google Apps Takes Swipe At Microsoft

Not everyone likes change, and complaints are especially sure to occur when changes are forced upon people.  So a certain Mountain View-based search giant, while still pushing its products as replacements for Redmond's offerings, is trying to bridge the gap with Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.