This is one of the coolest things I have seen pop out of Microsoft in a while - and there have been quite a few lately. The Translation team have provided a short code snippet you can add to your blog to allow it to be translated into multiple different languages.

You can now read this blog in

  • Arabic
  • Chinese Simplified
  • Chinese Traditional
  • Dutch
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Russian
  • Spanish

translate

Yep, just navigate your way to the drop down over on the right of this page and select your language then click on the button. Sit back and prepare to be amazed. Choose a language like Korean that takes a little longer and you can literally see the translation occurring and flowing across the page. It's fantastic to watch.

I was so impressed with this I showed it to Anna tonight and her immediate reaction was "wow....my mum could now read your blog" (her mother is Chinese). That floored me....the magic of software.

The Liveside guys have more details and this literally takes moments to add to your blog and makes you way more readable.

I may be too excited here but I think this is HUGE. Small companies can now get their website in many languages quickly and easily. Bloggers can make their blog more easily and widely read.