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I put this together really quickly to keep up to date on the Japan earthquake situation from my Japanese friends. They post in Japanese which I can't understand, so by adding the hashtag #en the translator will automatically translate and repost the translated tweet to their stream. Hopefully this will help others out as well.

For those who don't want to setup their own vpn, you can try hotspotshield. It's free but they display a ad frame as you browse.

I setup vpn on my dd-wrt router.

ArticleBody - Instapaper and Readability do this, but definitely can be improved.

AutoTagger - OpenCalais does this, again opportunities for improvement of course.

Still a nice list of ideas.

Show HN: ... might be a good start