Overheard: Flickr to launch several new languages next week

Update: It appears several sites are confirming what we first reported yesterday. Check out the confirmations on ReadWriteWeb and Mashable. The official post is now available on the flickr blog.

This is unconfirmed but I have heard that Flickr will be launching several new languages (localization / internationalization) this coming week. Supporting this theory, community manager Heather Champ appears to be heading on an international tour of "24 Hours of Flickr" events based on her Upcoming event listing, hitting events in London, Berlin, Paris and Montreal.

If you have more details, please feel free to contact us. We'll also be watching for any response from Zooomr, which has, to date, touted its multi-lingual support as one of its primary benefits over Flickr.