Facebook mirrors Google with crowdsourcing agenda

Journalists and Silicon Valley insiders alike often wonder aloud why venture capitalists have reportedly poured $716 million into social networking startup Facebook Inc., giving it a massive valuation estimated by some at $15 billion. Facebook may have dropped a hint as to why in a new patent filing on language translation technology that TechCrunch noted last night.Facebook has melded technology and human intellect via crowd sourcing to create a better language translation technology.
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Facebook Wants To Own Idea Of Crowdsourced Translations

Apparently Facebook is trying to patent the idea of crowdsourced translations of its service. The actual patent application was filed in December of 2008, but the real priority date (I believe) is December of 2007 (when I think the company filed a provisional patent). This one caught my attention for a few reasons -- with a major one being that way back in March of 2006, some friends of mine were working on a startup called Gabbly, which did online chat, and they had amazing success with crowdsourcing translations.
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GlobalSight Adds Crowdsourcing to Its Vision

Welocalize today announced CrowdSight, an open-source, browser-based translation tool for crowdsourcing. Paired with the GlobalSight translation management system (TMS), CrowdSight lets translators and reviewers work with translation memory without the burden of learning the full GlobalSight interface for professional translators.
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