I have been in China on business, and since my company's Beijing site get's its corporate network connection via Japan, many websites think I am coming from Japan. This morning when I checked in on Facebook I was prompted with the message below from facebook asking if I wanted to help translate facebook! Facebook makes _a lot_ of money. Couldn't they just spend the few grand to do the work themselves like every other self respecting service/software company? Facebook: that is tacky.

A very short time ago, Facebook morphed from being a social network to being a “social networking platform”. What this means is they have opened up their API for third parties to produce plugin applications that users may add to their profiles. This move has been blindingly successful in that only a few weeks from launch there are 1766 applications written for the platform.

But I wonder why.