Most of us are so used to going online and getting the information we want, we don’t often think of what we can’t get. For me, it took a trip to Asia to wake me up to what I really knew all along - there’s a whole other Internet out there that, until translation technology catches up, I can’t access. If you’ve ever used a translation website, you know how awkward the results can be. That situation is only compounded with video where no adequate search mechanism yet exists.

This week, Nicholas Reville, Executive Director of Participatory Culture Foundation (the folks who brought us Miro) introduced the Drumbeat community to his latest project, Universal Subtitling.