Cheapskate Facebook asks users to translate for free
We have the money but we don't want to spend it
:nana:
SUPER RICH social notworking site Facebook, which is worth more than $15 billion, has asked its users to translate its visible framework into nearly two dozen languages for free.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Facebook wants versions of site guidelines, especially terms specific to Facebook, that are in tune with local cultures.
Apparently Facebook thought it would be cool if everything was done at a local level. Of course one person's cool is another's miser.
According to AP there are dark murmurings that Facebook might just be skimping in the wrong place.
Some question whether amateurs can produce good translations, others dismiss Facebook's spin that it is just is improving service in an innovative way.
Already its go at creating a Spanish version of the site has been slammed by grammar and spelling pedants who usually focus their efforts on INQ hacks who write at 5am.
Despite all this, more than 100,000 users have installed Facebook's translation application. Nearly 10,000 helped translate the French, Spanish and German sites - the Spanish version in less than four weeks and the German one in two weeks.
It cost Facebook nothing but the software
We have the money but we don't want to spend it
:nana:
SUPER RICH social notworking site Facebook, which is worth more than $15 billion, has asked its users to translate its visible framework into nearly two dozen languages for free.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Facebook wants versions of site guidelines, especially terms specific to Facebook, that are in tune with local cultures.
Apparently Facebook thought it would be cool if everything was done at a local level. Of course one person's cool is another's miser.
According to AP there are dark murmurings that Facebook might just be skimping in the wrong place.
Some question whether amateurs can produce good translations, others dismiss Facebook's spin that it is just is improving service in an innovative way.
Already its go at creating a Spanish version of the site has been slammed by grammar and spelling pedants who usually focus their efforts on INQ hacks who write at 5am.
Despite all this, more than 100,000 users have installed Facebook's translation application. Nearly 10,000 helped translate the French, Spanish and German sites - the Spanish version in less than four weeks and the German one in two weeks.
It cost Facebook nothing but the software