WATBlog reports that Opera website has introduced a Hindi microsite. Looking at their website I wonder if what I was reading is Hindi indeed. “ओपेरा व्यवहार सबंधीय सुझाव एँव चालाकियोँ जानने के लिये ओपेरा समुह से मिलेँ”, If I ignore the punctuation mistakes, the phrase loosely translated back to English would mean, “To know Opera [...]

This is not to undermine the effort Google India has put in to create the Hindi transliteration tool for Blogger.com, but the title of a recent post at the official blog, “Now you can blog in Hindi” sounds too haughty. Probably Google does not know (or chooses to ignore) that Hindi blogging started way back [...]

I had a nice chat recently with Bhasha India people on Indibloggies and Indic Blogging scene (although they spelled Indibloggies wrongly throughout in the published version). Bhasha India is doing a great job of proving knowledge and tools to disseminate the use of Indian languages over the internet. Do read it over here. Noted Hindi [...]

Indian Express recently did a story on Indibloggies. Though they got some facts wrong (for example I told them that “Tamil, Hindi and Marathi” are leading in the Indic blogging scene), I must thank the newspaper and Anuradha for the good words. I hope this would help its cause, that of showcasing the best of [...]

The machine is us; we are the web! Amazing video.

I was bit late to realize this, but after the recent WP upgrade to 2.1 there has been few hiccups with the UTW plugin (specifically release 3.141592 , that I use). The UTW tags would just vanish whenever a new comment was being posted or when you try to edit the post. Fortunately, there is [...]

Jay and Vijay Pullur, founders of Pramati Technologies have started their blog Software (Ad)Venturing, where they would write on topics covering software development, product innovation and building new business. This gotta be an interesting read. [Via]

More and more people are taking to writing in Indian languages on the net and online dictionaries play a vital role here. I had once mentioned Shabdnidhi, an AJAX enabled online English – Hindi dictionary. Priyankoo, who is the first Assamese blogger, recently informed me about another such project called Xobdo, an online English-Assamiya dictionary. [...]

Well actually, one of my favorite reads Desipundit has gone for a complete revamped look and man “what a site”. There is really no parallel for Chug’s ethnic designs. He has done brilliant gratis designs for the Indibloggies in the past and remains one of my favorite web-designers. Desipundit’s approach is very professional, the way [...]