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[ Facebook ] - 81,900 RSVPs on Bank Transfer Day
A Facebook event page started on Tuesday and now it’s grown into a national movement. Today (Nov. 5) is Bank Transfer Day (BTD), a deadline activists set for transferring funds from for-profit banking institutions into not-for-profit credit unions closer to home.
Read more[ Facebook ] - Launches HTML5 Platform
Facebook just got updated to HTML5 platform and tested on iPod Touch. This Monday internet game Publisher Strom8 announced three of it games (World war, iMobsters and Vampires Live) are now available on Facebook. They are being tested on Facebook app as they are not installed on local hard drive.
Things come here that how can you do that so you can't. According to the company, developers have this option: to either develop an entirely new HTML5-based version, or have the Facebook launch the local app.
Read more[ Facebook News ] - Facebook Introduces In-Line Translator
And now you don't have to look Google Translator each time someone comments you on your facebook in some other language, because facebook had just introduced Facebook's In-Line Translate option which will appear as soon someone comment on your post in other then your's default language.
This is different from Google’s translation tool — this opt-in service is powered by Microsoft Bing and works on individual posts on Facebook Pages, including comments. For example, if you’re an English speaker reading a Facebook public Page and encounter a comment in Spanish, you’ll see a Translate button next to it, letting you click to see it translated into English.
Facebook users have a new option for reading foreign fan pages. Through Microsoft’s Bing Translator technology, Facebook users will be able to click a link to translate Facebook pages not written in their language without leaving Facebook.
Announced yesterday via the Facebook Pages wall, the move comes weeks after Microsoft's announcement for the new Microsoft Translator API.
"Bing is excited that its friends at Facebook have now implemented the API to enhance their site with real-time, in-place translation," a Microsoft spokesperson told Search Engine Watch. “Bing had nothing new to report about any integration partnerships with Facebook.”
The translation doesn’t happen automatically. Translation is provided via an app that users must install (give permission to) in order to translate Facebook pages into their own language.
When you click on a translate button, Bing Translator will provide the translation to your language in a popout window. In addition to the translation, users will also have the opportunity to correct the translation and submit it. In true social fashion, if a user-submitted translation receives enough support, it will replace the Bing translation automatically each time future users click the translate button for that individual post.
Facebook page admins can select to allow translations submitted by the community, only by Microsoft or their own supplied translations. There are also options to turn the translation ability off altogether.
[ Study ] - Toilets That Flush Are Expendable But Facebook Is Not, Says Briton
Sure, Americans may increasingly spend 53 billion minutes per month on Facebook, but at least users in the U.S. understand that social media is less important than the ability to, for example, flush away human waste...unlike Facebook addicts in the United Kingdom.
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