Facebook: From 1 to 100 languages in two years

It was just over a year ago that Facebook started localizing itself for the world. As I noted then, the company utilized crowdsourcing to spur its translation efforts. And though volunteers aren’t the only people translating content, a year later, …

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Will Facebook become the world’s largest translation platform?

Techcrunch reports from Facebook’s developer conference today in which company announced that it would open its “crowdsourcing” translation platform to its legion of application developers. Here’s the press release excerpt: As a result of the worldwide success of Facebook’s translation …

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