A Technorati report suggested that only 36% of the blog posts are written in English while the rest are published in Japanese, Chinese, Italian and other languages.
While this data may be slightly old, it does hint at the multilingual nature of blogosphere and how we miss majority of the published content by limiting subscriptions only to RSS feeds that are written in English.
Now if you like to expand your daily information sources and read feeds published in foreign languages, Mloovi could be an ideal service for you.
1. Mloovi translates blog feeds from one language to another using Google Translate.
2. The translated version is available as a feed so people can directly subscribe to it in any news reader.
Founder Mike Robinson says that Mloovi is also available as a widget for blog publishers - this will help non-English speaking visitors to directly subscribe your blog in their own native language without using language translation.
For instance, here are links to this feed in Hindi, Russian, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. You only get partial summaries because of Google Translate API limitations but they should still be good enough for getting a basic idea about the full post.
Related: Google AJAX Language Translation Tutorial
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/subscribe-foreign-languages-blogs-with-translation/4542/
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Reader Comments
Does anyone actually know how good google translation is?
Written by Devicepedia on 09.15.08
I don’t see a big deal here. Yahoo Pipes does that as well using it’s own translate engine.
Written by Arif A on 09.15.08
Good Idea ! The mloovi Widget seems very cool tool for bloggers !
Written by ArpitNext on 09.15.08
That is a useful tool for increasing my blog subscriber numbers I guess. Thanks for the nice information.
Written by Vishaal on 09.15.08
Better one, to get more subscribers for our blog and we can also subscribe for other language ones…
Written by Pavan Kumar on 09.16.08
The Mloovi is yet another step forward in internet technology that will help English speaking Bloggers to communicate as well as enter into the thinking mode of the Non-English Bloggers and Readers, who I hope would also be able to send their valuable comments using such a facility such that the English writing bloggers can follow and vice versa. This is one bridge that would bring the people of the world closer into a one knit family via the world wide web.
Written by Somik Ranjan Roy on 09.16.08
In the chart above i am actually surprised that German, Spanish and french isn’t actually higher as subscribers to my site make up a higher percentage than whats recorded here.
Written by Devicepedia on 09.16.08
@ link : That was the first thought I was thinking, too. Development time should have been, like one afternoon, simlply adding another frontend over yahoo pipes.
Written by Bjoern on 09.17.08