1. Richard Desmond. Because with his recent purchase of Five he’s really shown that he understands the high quality of service and content that a truly global medium demands. Also, I’m not sure there’s really enough boobs on the internet yet.

2. Ling of Ling’s Cars. Because she already has most of the Internet right there on her page.

3. Double Rainbow guy. Because the Internet, like a double rainbow right the way across the sky, is a beautiful thing.

4. Rupert Murdoch. Because he’ll do the internet properly this time. Delivered to your door daily by ‘internet-boys’ on bikes.

5. A randomly selected Mayor or badge-holder. Because that’s the responsibility that comes with being a pillar of the community or badge hobbyist, right? And by community I mean cliquey braggadocio service and self-selecting marketing database. But remember — no deputy mayors.

6. A HOT SPY. Because the key holders need to convene in a secret location, and you can’t have a secret location without spy, so you might as well get a HOT one.

7. Whoever has the highest Hot Or Not score. Because someone HOT should be able to restart the Internet, and Vint Cerf is NOT HOT.

I shall be sending these names to ICANN forthwith, and hopefully they will soon be installed either as replacements for the already-nominated 7 or at the very least as substitutes for them in the event of international travel problems following a large scale war or terrorist attack.

Have you nommed your 7 Recipients Of The Keys yet?

#whoShouldHaveAKeyToRestartTheInternet

The tool is at the bottom of the article — it’s a select box. You can currently select one of 52 languages to translate into. Selecting a different language serializes and urlencodes all the elements on the page and POSTs them to the translate.googleapis.com service. They are returned, translated, in a JSON response along with the original English, which is used in popup boxes when you hover over a section of the newly translated text. Everything is translated, not just the main content — including all the form controls, menus and even any comments on the page — and the page design and structure is respected.

A toolbar is added to the top of the viewport so you can select a new language or revert back to the original. The speed of a translation seems to vary somewhat — I tried Hindi, which was very quick, and Irish, which was relatively slow — but a progress indicator let’s you know how much time you will be waiting. Overall the effect is deeply impressive and the function has a high level of polish, something that Google has not always been able to provide.

I first saw Google’s translation technology early in 2009. Back then it seemed an awkward fit for in-place translating and more suited to a post-and-response web service. But this is certainly a feature that more publishers, large and small, should be including on their sites.

Outlook India is a fine magazine which I wholeheartedly recommend. Most of their published content is available on the website as well as web-only content. They have an extensive series of essays by the author and activist Arundhati Roy.

So if you’re looking for information on developing for Adobe Air using non-Flash, non-ActionScript, non-Flex options then this appears to be the most definitive documentation that I was able to find on the Adobe site: HTML Developer’s Guide for ADOBE AIR. Hopefully it will save you some time.