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Online content is growing exponentially, as the amount of information doubles every 2 years. English is still dominating the dominating language according to Internet World Stats. What about all the other languages?

Valuable multilingual content is rarely linked online and only a small portion of the content published in the so called "top languages" is translated. Nonetheless through social media and web 2.0 tools, the Internet is offering an increasing linguistic diversity. The Web2forDev Gateway offers a short review of the current status of the polyglot Internet

http://www.web2fordev.net/component/content/article/1-latest-news/75-weaving-a-polyglot-internet-open-and-voluntary-translation  
Added by Giacomo Rambaldi on July 25, 2009
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