A particular VC has been asking me for a very long time, “Mahesh, what is your take on ecommerce in Indic? Will Indian internet users accept an Indian language ecommerce site?”. I have been giving him my views but I did not have any data to back. I decided to conduct a poll and ask […]
Indian Languages
Is 2012 the year for recognition of Indian languages on the internet?
The year 2012 seems to have begun well for the Indic space – print and online media in India have been writing about Indian language space on the internet. Economic Times on Jan 24, 2012 (Republic Day) carried an article titled “Internet’s Next Growth Story to be Scripted in Vernacular Languages” (epaper, scanned version) and […]
Multi-Lingual Web – Challenges & Opportunities
My article was published in Thinking Aloud! magazine (December 2011). The entire issue focused on Indian languages on the internet and mobile. India has about 100 million desktop & 50-150 mobile internet users. These numbers vary depending on whom you ask. IAMAI’s recent report says 18 million use the internet in India on a daily […]
Oneindia is India’s second most popular Local News Destination amongst NRIs: Comscore
The latest comscore press release “India’s Local News Destinations See Visitors from Outside of the Country Account for a Significant Share of their Global Audience” talks about the traffic the popular Indian sites are getting from outside India (safe to assume most of the users from outside India are NRIs). We at Oneindia.in are excited […]
Will Hindi domain names increase the usage of internet in India?
For a while the discussion about domain names in Indian language has been going on. India is about to get its own internationalized domain names (IDNs). China and Russia have their own IDNs for a while now. Today’s Mint carried an article “Hindi domain name to bridge digital divide” which talks about .bharat TLD (top […]