TC50: Translate your blog, tackle your email and two other companies from the language and platform session
A few companies worth noting from the TechCrunch50 conference’s session on language and platform today:
Publishers should have every reason to try out Alfabetic, a translation service that sucks in English RSS feeds and converts them to other languages. Alfabetic plans to get around the mistranslation problem common to tools like Babelfish by using human proofreading teams. Those teams not only clean up the content and fix mistakes, but also send their changes back to Alfabetic’s… Continue Reading
DropBox makes online file storage and sharing more simple
updated
DropBox, a Silicon Valley company that is trying to make online file storage and sharing more simple, has come of out of secret testing and is sending out invites for people to use it.
We’ve seen DropBox in use, and it’s a solid product that makes storage and sharing a lot easier than products offered by a bajillion other companies.
We wrote about the company last year, when it demonstrated at a YCombinator event. It is akin… Continue Reading
The Y Combinator List
We visited the Y Combinator demo day in Mountain View today, where 19 start-ups showed off their products to a group of investors and other entrepreneurs. The start-ups have emerged after eleven weeks of work, so these are very early-stage companies. Some of them haven’t launched yet, and requested they not be written about until they’re ready.
Eight of them have launched, or are otherwise ready to say something. We decided to force ourselves to rank… Continue Reading