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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: I Google, You Google, Everyone Googles Everything

With new translation and dictionary services--and an awkward custom keyboard--Google secures its position as the world's expert on "looking things up." Eat it, Webster.READ»

The Ultimate Design Language? Words.

The more user-centered design is, the better. And no medium is more user-centered than the written word.READ»

• Graham Button's blog Like it or Not

Lost in Translation: Five Words We Should Import

Karin Fong collects words that aren't translatable to the English language and makes flashcards for them.READ»

• Karin Fong's The In-Between Spaces blog

Jargon-mania: A Social-Enterprise Lexicon

There's nothing like a conference to breed and spread fresh jargon. At the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurship, they've included "impact," "accountability," "social business," that old ...READ»