I’m a huge fan of Transparent Languages and the CD’s that they make to help you learn and understand different languages around the World. My first experience was in FEB 1999 when I purchased “51 Languages of the World” and heard, for the first time, Farsi, Urdu, Lativian, Tagalog and a slew of others. After reinstalling the set nine years later to polish up on Danish and French, I checked out the Transparent.com website…

What to my wandering eyes should appear in the Press Release section?

In examining the stability of Cloud-based app engines of which I’ve always been skeptical by reason of erring on the side of caution, I stumbled on to a text app from TechCrunch that tested Google’s Cloud-based app engine, AppEngine. It’s a basic voting system that scours TechCrunch’s CrunchBase (database) and delivers a company name and logo and allows you to vote its reputation UP or DOWN. If you’re not familiar with the company, you can click on the logo to transfer yourself to the CrunchBase description. It’s all quite nice and could be less transferry, but it’s a very neat and practical way to learn about many of the new companies out there in the big web.

http://appengine.crunchbase.com/