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hi5 Crowdsources Translations: Launches in 10 New Languages
Social network hi5 launched the first 10 of its user-driven translations today in a push to reach a wider audience. Even though hi5's numbers in the U.S. are relatively low, it is already the third-largest social network worldwide and has a strong presence in Latin America and Europe. Just like Facebook crowdsourced some of its translations, hi5 also relied on its users to localize the user interface and to rate these translations. As hi5 supports the OpenSocial platform, developers will also be able to access these translation tools to localize their own applications.
Bizzlr Does Social Network Recommendations
Many small and medium sized businesses may have an interest in maintaining a presence on social networks, but don't the time, money, or resources to do so. For them, a new service provided by a company called Bizzlr can help. For a small monthly fee, companies can use Bizzlr's solution to connect with customers on many of the major social networks.
Frengo Launches Mobile Open Social Toolkit
Mobile social networking company Frengo has released a toolkit for development of Open Social and Facebook applications on mobile phones. The Open Social Mobile Toolkit supports MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, and Facebook and allows developers of applications on those networks to extend them to the mobile phone. In addition to extending support for the Open Social and Facebook platforms to the mobile phone, the Frengo toolkit allows developers to monetize applications via the company's social advertising platform or via premium SMS.
Hi5 Launching OpenSocial Platform Today
Popular social networking site Hi5 is launching its implementation of the OpenSocial platform today, the first apps go live at noon PST. The company is rolling out the apps very slowly, 1% of users will be able to access them at noon, 10% by the end of the day. The first 100 approved apps (there are 53 approved for launch today) will receive 1 year of free hosting from the Joyent Accelerator (who may or may not have been dumped by Twitter as a scalability problem) and free translation from English to Spanish or vice versa.
The only apps mentioned on the company blog so far look pretty silly. OpenSocial doesn't seem to be working out like at least tech-centric users were hoping.
Microsoft Joins 5 Social Networks in Data Portability Pact
Microsoft announced a partnership this morning with five social networks on data portability. Starting today, users on Facebook and Bebo will be able to add friends via their Windows Live address book. The functionality will be coming to Hi5, Tagged and LinkedIn in the next few months. Microsoft is calling this a "two-way street" and has launched a new site, invite2messenger.net, where users can invite friends from those networks to chat on Live Messenger.
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