Posted by Alex on March 4, 2010 under Technology | 
In January of 2008, Facebook enlisted its almost two hundred million users to help translate the popular social networking site into over seventy languages. About three hundred thousand users answered the call, and made Facebook more accessible for those who live outside of the States (by Facebook estimates, about 70% of current users live overseas).
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Posted by Alex on October 1, 2009 under Translation News |
Facebook, one of the giants of social networking, has introduced a new service called Translations for Facebook Connect. The new service is a way to have its own users provide translations for its content into 65 other languages.
This application serves to provide translations of particular phrases used throughout the site. These phrases have been translated by the users, and then votes are collected on which translation is the most accurate. The highest-ranking translation is then utilized on the actual site…
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