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About a year and a half ago, Facebook launched the first translated version of Facebook in Spanish. Since then, they've been busy working with community translators to translate the site into oodles of languages. From French, German, Japanese, Chinese and Italian, they worked their way up to 55 languages.

Now, they'd like you to know that thanks to its community translators, a la user-driven translation program, Facebook is available in 64 different languages. And that's not all.

Facebook is extending its translations to Facebook Connect, the platform that lets third-party websites offer Facebook login to their users and push information back to the News Feed.

LiveMesh, released earlier this year by Microsoft and still in beta, picked up a major award at the 2008 Crunchies. Amidst a flurry of start-ups, new “2.0” services and power house competition, it was a little surprising to see LiveMesh win the Best Technology Innovation Crunchie. Is the award enough to sway skeptical bloggers’ opinions about the enterprise 2.0 synchronization and collaboration system?

Web 2.0 brought about the evolution of the social web. But there have always been challenges working socially on the web, especially with social marketing or social networking. The challenge is that it can be difficult to stay active socially, even just in your niche. Google is trying to change that.

Here's yet another twist in the already overloaded content management space:

Mobile content management.

Last week, UK-based Netsize announced the release of its Netsize Content Management Platform - a commerce-enabled CMS for content exchanged between mobile services operators and subscribers over SMS, MMS, WAP, and Java (J2ME).

The offering is initially targeted to game developers, but I have to believe Netsize has large enterprises in their sites, as the latter have demonstrated an increasing need to integrate their wireline and wireless networks, and by implication the content that travels across those networks.

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