Instant IM Translation and other winners

The Made In Express Contest is reaching its conclusion - there are a total of 10 finalists' projects and now it is time to pick the winners...Who will win? Well, that's really up to you.

My personal favorite is the Instant IM Translation. I confess - I've not played with the app - but the idea works for me. In Ali Kalid's own words:

"I have a friend in France whose english is not so good, so whenever we are talking on the MSN Messenger, I copy what ever he says, paste it into a translation service, then type my reply in english, translate it into French and copy it back in MSN Messenger. What I would love to work on would be to make a plug-in for MSN Messenger or use the MSN Messenger SDK to build a new messenger which will use a free Web service for translation, and do all of the above things automatically, so that he will see only french in his IM and i will see only English in my IM."

(Imagine that...I'd actually understand what my wife was saying! - when IM'ing in Flemish of course...)

So, Ali went off and built it (source code and installation guide here). Here are the other 9 projects to choose from..... Go on, vote!

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2006
  This is one of the coolest stuff i have heard in last one month !(thanks for info alex !) do you have...
• Anonymous
  August 18, 2006
  I read about this a while back and it's great to see it out in the wilds now. Alex blogs about and explains...
• Anonymous
  August 20, 2006
  Just wanted to Thank You for your kind comments about my project.
• Anonymous
  October 31, 2006
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