Interactive Rich Media

ShareThis is a free one-step sharing tool that saves you time and makes sharing online hassle free. You can share anything on the web to your choice of social bookmarking options, post-to-profile and blog choices, Email, AIM, or even as a text message to a mobile phone.
The ShareBox is a place where registered ShareThis users’ shared content is stored. If you want to retrieve something you have shared in the past, share it again or would like to tag and organize your shares, this can all be done within the ShareBox. In addition, users can save and tag content directly to their ShareBox from within the widget for easy searching later.

I created today a ShareThis account to include the ShareThis widget to my Wordpress websites.

Doodle makes it easy to find a date and time for a group event. Doodle is a free online coordination tool which requires neither registration nor software installation. I used it today for the first time. It’s very user friendly and useful. Doodle is also available as Facebook application.

Making a website available in multiple languages is important, especially if the target audience is international. Google offers two types of solutions to the Translation challenge. One is by straight online translation via a handy translation widget. The second solution is the Google AJAX Language API.

With the AJAX Language API, it’s possible to translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript. With the AJAX Language API for Transliteration, it’s possible to enable transliteration on any textfield or textarea in a webpage. Transliteration is the process of phonetically converting a word written in one script into another. Transliteration should not be confused with translation, which involves a change in language while preserving meaning. With transliteration, it is the sound of the words that are converted from one alphabet to the other.

Code examples are available at the Google AJAX API’s Playground. A useful tutorial how to add inline language translation to a website with Google AJAX API has been written by Amit Agarwal.