Flickr Goes Multilingual

Photo sharing site Flickr learns seven new languages

Online photo-sharing community Flickr gained multilingual support this week with the support of seven additional languages in hopes to expand the service to more people around the world. Now supported are the Traditional Chinese, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Italian and Portuguese languages.

"Flickr has established itself as the eyes of the world, with millions of people all over the planet sharing photos of every imaginable aspect of life," said Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and general manager of Flickr at Yahoo! "Today, we're expanding our language support to make that dialogue easier and to connect those who may not speak the same language, but who share the same passions."

To celebrate this milestone, Flickr will host a series of global community events starting this month in Berlin, Paris, London and Montreal.

The photo site said that it will also unveil its 24 Hours of Flickr commemorative book, a global photo project for which members were encouraged to submit one photo taken on May 5, 2007 to illustrate that day in the life of the Flickr community.

The multilingual improvement to Flickr came shortly after China's apparent ban on the photo sharing site. The ban was likely put in place after images from the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre – a taboo topic according to the Chinese government – appeared on Flickr.

Reference:Marcus Yam,dailytech