Xiha Life
Encyclopedia
Xiha Life is a multilingual social networking website. It integrates Google
's automatic translation software, Google Translate
, which enables users to instantly translate comments and posts within the site itself. The user interface has been translated into 42 languages, and the system supports communication in 56 languages. Xiha Life has 750,000 members worldwide, with no single country comprising more than 5% of its membership.
Xiha Life was founded on September 28, 2007, by Jani Penttinen, who serves as its CEO. The name, "Xiha", is Mandarin for "happy" or "joyful". In 2009, Xiha was named one of the Red Herring
100 Europe, an award given to promising European tech companies.
Its board includes Jaiku
co-founder and former Google Project Manager Jyri Engeström, Jan Achenius and Ville Miettinen
. Xiha Life is operated out of Sunnyvale, California
, Switzerland, and Finland.
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
's automatic translation software, Google Translate
Google Translate
Google Translate is a free statistical machine translation service provided by Google Inc. to translate a section of text, document or webpage, into another language.The service was introduced in April 28, 2006 for the Arabic language...
, which enables users to instantly translate comments and posts within the site itself. The user interface has been translated into 42 languages, and the system supports communication in 56 languages. Xiha Life has 750,000 members worldwide, with no single country comprising more than 5% of its membership.
Xiha Life was founded on September 28, 2007, by Jani Penttinen, who serves as its CEO. The name, "Xiha", is Mandarin for "happy" or "joyful". In 2009, Xiha was named one of the Red Herring
Red Herring (magazine)
Red Herring was a technology business magazine, which flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. But the magazine went into...
100 Europe, an award given to promising European tech companies.
Its board includes Jaiku
Jaiku
Jaiku is a social networking, micro-blogging and lifestreaming service comparable to Twitter. Jaiku was founded in February 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen from Finland and launched in July of that year...
co-founder and former Google Project Manager Jyri Engeström, Jan Achenius and Ville Miettinen
Ville Miettinen
Ville Ilmari Miettinen is a Finnish serial entrepreneur and computer programmer. Miettinen was the co-founder and CTO of...
. Xiha Life is operated out of Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley located in the San Francisco Bay Area...
, Switzerland, and Finland.