Netlog is one of the most significant European social networks, with over 33m users, and 25 language versions. It's easy to forget about some of the great sites that mainly exist in other languages than English, but if you want to hit the European market then this is an important area to be aware of.
One of the difficulties in building applications for the European market (Netlog supports Open Social) is the language barrier; building out 25 separate language applications is timely and costly. However, Techcrunch UK recently reported that Netlog are opening up their translation and localisation capabilities to third party developers. This will hugely lower the barrier to creating multiple-language applications. How it will compare to Facebook's own translation APIs (allowing users to translate applications for developers), which hasn't had a lot of publicity, is yet to be seen - the actual tools don't seem to be available yet from the Netlog developer site.
1 comment:
Thanks for informing first about the netlog…
Actually I have never heard about it before. The thing I liked is that it is in various languages. There are a few only social networks which have other languages…
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