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Flickr grows in the multilingual marketplace
What do some US based company's lack? Versions made especially for other markets, especially countries where they are getting large amounts of traffic from. Of course it takes time and a team of dedicated experts in the geographic location to pull it off in a reasonable amount of time, but it is expected from larger companies like Google or Yahoo. Flickr has managed to pump out an additional seven languages for its user base today. French, Germany, UK and Hong Kong Chinese. Flickr's current user base consists of 55% that are actually residing outside of the US. This is a hot global product, and Flickr has recognized this with this massive upgrade. This new language entry will surely see Flickr's 525 million photos grow substantially over the next little while.
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Magic Power said 11:35AM on 6-13-2007
Flickr may be going multilingual, but the chances of it gaining share in the Netherlands (or any other Dutch-speaking lands) are low.
You see, 'flickr' can be pronounced as 'flicker' or 'flikker', which means (among otherse) 'faggot' in Dutch.
So it would be kinda the same if some company made a new product called Faggt on www.faggt.com . :)
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Andrew Schrock said 1:56PM on 6-13-2007
What a terribly written article. Maybe it should have been delivered via Flickr!
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