Have any of your Facebook friends ever posted an update in another language? It’s happened to me and I had to choose between ignoring the update or cutting and pasting into Google Translate. But now a new tool from XIHA offers an easier way.
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Last night Facebook announced that they would be upgrading their Translations application to include an awards feature to reward top translators. The gaming techniques are similar to those employed by the team behind Causes, the third largest application on the Facebook Platform. With over 300,000 users translating via the system and over 70 languages now available on Facebook, it’s important that translators continue using the system.
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Want to get your site translated into multiple languages for free? With Facebook’s new Translations for Facebook Connect, developers and website owners can take advantage of Facebook’s highly successful Translations application. Using the translations application, Facebook was able to have the site translated into more than 65 languages in a matter of months. Facebook was translated into Spanish in two weeks, and then French followed next in under 24 hours.
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With over 40 languages now available on Facebook, the company has announced availability of the site in both Hebrew and Arabic. If you haven’t tested out the site in either of these languages, I highly recommend it as the site is flipped backwards. There was a huge demand for the site to be translated into Arabic and numerous friends in Israel had complained to me about the site not being in Hebrew.
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