FeedLanguage: translate rss on the fly
Yesterday Google released an addition I’ve been waiting for to their already impressive set of API’s, now including the Google Translate AJAX API.
Hello. My name is Antti and I am an RSS addict.
Seriously though, I get most of my industry news via feeds. The technology while being so simple really is extremely powerful, easy, quick and effortless; it’s hard to say no. Still, there are a couple foreign feeds i want to follow but i don’t want to translate the texts all the time, so i was looking for a service that translates RSS feeds on the fly. I didn’t find anything useful. FeedBurner does a lot so i could easily see them doing this too (especially now that they are a part of Google…) but nada. So, I built my own little prototype.
This was mostly built for myself but i thought i might as well release it for the public. Feel free to try it out and let me know if you run into issues. If you’re interested I don’t mind releasing the source.
How about my feed in .. Italian? 
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2008-03-30, 21:06 by Bartek Drozdz
This is really cool, I’ve been looking for something like that. I subscribe some blogs in Japanese and I used Google Translate and manually translated the posts.
I also tried to translate my own RSS but my blog uses Atom - any chance the this application might support this too?
2008-03-30, 21:23 by Antti Author comment
I’m hoping to add support for other formats but i want to focus on getting rid of bugs first. Unfortunately this is still just a side project and I don’t have as much time to work on it as i’d like.
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