When is a Wiki a Whiteboard?

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A: When its a huddle.

Q: When is a huddle an environment for multilingual communication?
A: When a huddlee can dynamically change the user interface to work in her native language.

Q: Why is this interesting?
A: Because we've yet to see a concentrated focus on globalization requirements in the social computing and collaboration space. In fact, we've been wondering where is the "L" is in Web 2.0?

Q: What if you don't speak German?
A: The company that built and manages the huddle concept (Ninian Solutions Ltd) provides a French user interface as well and according to our interview with the company, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese will follow.

Q: So how will content created by huddlers get translated?
A: Machine translation may very well prove its use within a Web 2.0 environment. Stay tuned.

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