{"id":414,"date":"2011-12-28T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T14:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2011-12-28T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T14:39:33","slug":"duolingo-learn-a-language-and-translate-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/duolingo-learn-a-language-and-translate-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Duolingo: Learn a language and translate the web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~biglou\/\">Luis von Ahn<\/a>&#8216;s ingenious projects: <a href=\"http:\/\/duolingo.com\">http:\/\/duolingo.com<\/a> learn a language for free and translate the web in the background.<br \/>\nThere is a pretty recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration.html\">TED talk by him<\/a>, and below you can find their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyzJ2Qq9Abs\">introductory video on youtube<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyzJ2Qq9Abs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another one of Luis von Ahn&#8216;s ingenious projects: http:\/\/duolingo.com learn a language for free and translate the web in the background. There is a pretty recent TED talk by him, and below you can find their introductory video on youtube:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,74,160],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pYA5n-6G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":408,"url":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2011\/09\/22\/interesting-talk-about-filter-bubbles\/","url_meta":{"origin":414,"position":0},"title":"Interesting talk about \"Filter Bubbles\"","date":"2011-09-22","format":false,"excerpt":"A few days ago I stumbled over an interesting TED talk by Eli Pariser about the ever increasing personalization of the web, its search results, your facebook news feed, ... 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