March 13, 2008
Facebook Launched German and French Versions
Facebook has notched up a new record by launching two European versions of its site in this month. Firstly, it launched the German version, and now unveiled its French version. According to Facebook, more than 2000 German-speaking users on Facebook have helped to translate the site to the local language in less than two weeks. And for the Facebook French, the site was produced with the help of its 4,000 French users. The launched of these two local sites is a positive development for Facebook, as they’re now targeting to expand into the Europe market.
However, as I said several times before, distance still a matter. For instance, the hottest social networking platform in Germany is studiVZ, leading the industry with reported 5 million of users.
In February, Facebook has also launched its Spanish version, as stated by Facebook, there are more than 1,500 users participated in the project mainly helping to translate the site from English to Spanish. Additionally, Facebook has more than 2.8 million active users in Latin America and Spain and the Spanish site will thus strongly engaging the people there.
Facebook German Version
Facebook French Version
Facebook Spanish Version
hmm, interesting, but still - I guess I don’t see what is ‘better’ than Good reads here. perhaps you mentioned it in the article, but for some reason, I just don’t see anything that jumps out at me as a big ‘win’ for changing from Goodreads over to readernaught.
is it the abbility to buy from Amazon that would make me want to switch? that’s the only thing that I see that might differentiate it.
oh well, I’ll keep looking on the web to see if there is an article that mentions what sets readernaught apart from goodreads.
thanks for the basic info. though.
Wade -out.