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"Photoblog.com, a photo blogging community that launched back in April, added support today (actually, just a few minutes ago) for multiple languages.  While previously only available in English, the site is now available in Polish, Chinese, Spanish, German and Portuguese.  Languages can be switched using a link at the bottom left.  If you're developing a social application, you'll be interested to know that the translation was done entirely by a group of volunteers - as with many social communities, Photoblog's users liked the site so much that they offered to help out.  Rival site Zooomr had a similar experience - they currently list around 17 languages on the site, all thanks to their users.\nPhotoblog was founded by 19-year old Michael Zhang, a student at the University of California, Davis, who coded the site himself before taking on business partner Mike Zupan as the lead developer.  The site is currently supported by Google Adsense, and most of their 10,000 registered users come from the US - that could change now they support other languages.  \nThe functionality, meanwhile, is pretty simple: you name your entry, select a category, add some text and tags and upload your photo.  This is photo blogging in a real sense, as opposed to Flickr and Webshots, which are less focused on reverse chronological, blog-like entries.  Other features include a list of friends, messaging, RSS feeds, Google Maps integration to display your location, commenting on photos and a unique Photoblog URL at yourname.photoblog.com.  One advantage of Photoblog's sparse interface is that it loads extremely fast, but the disadvantage is that it doesn't compel you to keep clicking.  While Flickr and the rest display tags, other photos from that user and scrollable displays of related groups, Photoblog doesn't inspire you to dig deeper into the content.  (The video sharing sites are particularly good at this trick - look at how YouTube, iFilm and Metacafe keep serving up related videos endlessly.)\nIf Photoblog has a problem, though, it's that it's undifferentiated from the pack.  Between Photobucket, ImageShack, Tabblo, Zooomr, Parazz, Shutterfly, Fotolog, Pickle.com and literally hundreds of other sites, users have lots of choices for storing and sharing their photos.  And since photo-sharing is generally better when there are lots of members, people head for the most popular sites.  Services like Photoblog and Zooomr may turn out to be more like showcases for the talents of their young founders than massively popular businesses, but we'll see.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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