Google does a decent job translating Web pages from other languages, but machine-based translation is still not good enough for when you need a truly accurate translation. A new service called the Google Translation Center looks like Google is making its machine-translation technologies available to human translators.

If you glance at the top lineup of gaming applications on the Facebook or MySpace platform, you’ll notice an interesting fact. Not one is the product of a major gaming publisher. Instead a group of independent gaming startups have been the leaders in publishing games within social networks.

It’s like the beast that won’t go away. As long as Yahoo is in play and Microsoft keeps flubbing negotiations to buy it (or stringing Yahoo along, depending on how you look at it), AOL keeps raising its hand and saying, “What about me? What about me?” Time Warner would be happy to unload AOL to any taker—Yahoo, Microsoft, it doesn’t care. Talks may be heating up before Yahoo’s August 1 shareholder meeting, according to an unnamed source who got the story planted in Reuters, or Time Warner’s M&A team might have nothing better to do during the summer doldrums.