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October 2, 2008 6:03 AM PDT

Hi5 translations go live

by Caroline McCarthy

Social network Hi5 has launched a site translation project, a week after the announcement that the company had created a "crowdsourced translation" app for use on the OpenSocial developer platform and several months after it initially announced plans for translation.

The site is now available not only in American English and the two dozen languages that Hi5 had previously translated it into (not through community efforts), but now also in Catalan, Danish, British English, Finnish, Hindi, Macedonian, Slovakian, Mexican Spanish, Colombian Spanish, and Swedish. These translations were generated by community participation and verified by translation service Lionbridge. Later in October, Hi5 plans to launch translated versions of the site in Albanian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, French, Maltese, Norwegian, Serbian, and several other Spanish dialects.

"The power of this program to deliver localized versions of our product has exceeded our own high expectations," founder and CEO Ramu Yalamanchi said in a release. "It is amazing to see the energy and enthusiasm of our global user community in action, taking our site into new languages and geographies that we otherwise wouldn't have the resources to address."

Hi5 is headquartered in San Francisco, but a plurality of its 56 million users come from Latin American countries.

This post was updated at 1:19 p.m. PT to note the number of languages into which Hi5 is already translated.

Caroline McCarthy, a CNET News staff writer, is a downtown Manhattanite happily addicted to social-media tools and restaurant blogs. Her pre-CNET resume includes interning at an IT security firm and brewing cappuccinos. E-mail Caroline.
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by alenas October 2, 2008 12:45 PM PDT
Hi5 is a scam website - they request passwords for Hotmail (or Microsoft Passport) and then read all your private info from there and bother all the contacts on your contact list.
Just do not give them any passwords or change your password now if you gave them...
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