8. A computer readable storage device, tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by a computer for translating content, wherein the content has an author who is part of a social network, the program of instructions, when executing, performing the following steps: receiving the content; retrieving from the social network contextual information associated with the content; retrieving from the social network author information associated with the author; creating a content-specific dictionary based upon the retrieved contextual information and the retrieved author information; creating a translation profile based upon the retrieved contextual information, the retrieved author information and the created content-specific dictionary; determining one of a plurality of generic dictionaries to use for the translating, wherein the determination of the one of the plurality of generic dictionaries to use is based upon the translation profile; and translating the received content using the content-specific dictionary and the determined one of the plurality of generic dictionaries to use.
11. The computer readable storage device of claim 8 , wherein the contextual information comprises at least one of: (a) one or more descriptions; (b) one or more tags; (c) one or more comments; (d) one or more subjects; (e) one or more titles; (f) one or more topics; or (g) any combination thereof.