Facebook Wants To Own Idea Of Crowdsourced Translations

[vaksel]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/26/facebook-files-for-patent-on-crowdsourced-translations/

[edgutman]

Cheering for the open source solutions instead:

http://socialsourcecommons.org/toolbox/show/1107

Live: http://www.dermundo.com/reader

[mtpark]

Missing from the title is that this is restricted for social networks only (or at least that's my read of it).

If it were for general cases, passing this patent would be highly disturbing.

[benatkin → mtpark]

Many web applications can be considered social networks. Restricting it to social networks wouldn't help me rest much easier.

[onreact-com]

Owning ideas is just a wrong concept. I'm glad it did not exist back then when the first human had the idea to drink water.

[rizzn]

Good luck with this quest.

Hi5 has been pioneering this concept for ages.

[rizzn → rizzn]

Citations (podcasts and posts from '08 where I talked about it / talked with devs from Hi5 on their translation efforts): http://mashable.com/2008/04/24/hi5-podcast/ http://mashable.com/2008/05/21/hi5-crowdsourced-translation/ http://mashable.com/2008/04/29/hi5-growth/ http://mashable.com/2008/02/29/podcast-opensocial/