Internet in India
According to Jimmy Wales blog, Wikia Search has shut on March 31, 2009. Wikia had raised funds from well-known personalities and it was being promoted as 'open source search'. It did not take off :-( The alpha version was released in Jan 2008. According to an article on Cnet, Wikia was getting merely 10,000 unique visitors a month for the past … [Read more] about Wikia Search Shut
Every serious online publisher keeps track of their Alexa ranking. I use the SearchStatus add-on in Firefox browser. When I checked the detailed traffic for oneindia.in from this add on, it did not work today (gave a 404). On visiting Alexa site I saw the entire site was revamped. I wonder if April is the month Alexa makes a major change every … [Read more] about Alexa revamped – the site, not the algorithm
Gmail now supports the 5 Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. Users have been complaining about the lack of language support on popular email platforms (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail). To activate Indian language (Indic) you need choose the language on your Settings page. You can set the 'display language' (labels) and … [Read more] about Gmail starts supporting Indian languages
Premier research company JuxtConsult has released its report "India Online 2009" [presentation] last week. I am particularly interested in what they have to say about Indian languages every time. There is just one mention about languages in this report. According to their report in 2007 only 28% Internet users in India prefer reading content in … [Read more] about Only 13% of existing internet users in India prefer to read in English
It is safe to assume every Indian politician is trying to imitate Obama's online presence & campaign. Obama has not only been advertising via Google Adwords for "Obama's First 100 Days" but now he is reaching out to common people on White House's "Open For Questions", … [Read more] about When will our politicians be ‘Open For Questions’?