Facebook translated to German by its users.
March 3rd, 2008 by 
stuart
I just came across this article, Facebook Now In German - Thanks To 2,000 Generous Users on TechCrunch and I liked the idea so much I had to share it. Apparently Facebook has managed to get its users to translate their site into different languages. I don’t think this idea will work for me, but maybe it will work for your site or your product (I will let the idea roll around in my head for a while, who knows maybe a way will occur to me).
The great thing about selling software on the web is the fact that your market is virtually the entire planet. Your customer can come from anywhere and speak any language. For example, the top languages of visitors to Irie Tools over the last 30 days were:
- US English
- British English
- Polish
- German
- French
- Romanian
- Italian
- Hungarian
- Dutch
That’s a pretty intimidating list for a small company like mine (and it changes all the time). I would love to be able to offer Irie Pascal to more people in their native language. One of these days, maybe I will.
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