Comments on: Alarm! Internet Growing Glocally! http://www.watblog.com/2007/10/17/alarm-internet-growing-glocally/ The Refreshing Blog on Web, Advertising and Technology in India! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:34:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: BG Mahesh http://www.watblog.com/2007/10/17/alarm-internet-growing-glocally/comment-page-1/#comment-1519 BG Mahesh Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:45:24 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2007/10/17/alarm-internet-growing-glocally/#comment-1519 Good to see a posting about Indian languages. We have been in this space from the year 2000 and I can say that the growth in internet penetration in the language space from 2006 has been very encouraging. The number of Hindi and Tamil bloggers have exploded and this is a very good sign as I see more 'writing' in Indian languages. But I still maintain that Indians prefer to 'read/consume' content on the net and the writing/commenting culture is yet to be big in India but may not be very far away Good to see a posting about Indian languages. We have been in this space from the year 2000 and I can say that the growth in internet penetration in the language space from 2006 has been very encouraging.

The number of Hindi and Tamil bloggers have exploded and this is a very good sign as I see more ‘writing’ in Indian languages. But I still maintain that Indians prefer to ‘read/consume’ content on the net and the writing/commenting culture is yet to be big in India but may not be very far away

]]> By: Ravi Venkatraman http://www.watblog.com/2007/10/17/alarm-internet-growing-glocally/comment-page-1/#comment-1400 Ravi Venkatraman Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:26:34 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2007/10/17/alarm-internet-growing-glocally/#comment-1400 ICANN has began the testing of IDN Extension. http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-15oct07.htm The 2 Indian Language being tested are Hindi & Tamil and the test domains are: http://उदाहरण.परीक्षा http://உதாரணம்.பரிட்சை Here is an article on WSJ about "What's the Hindi Word for Dot-Com?" http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119204776102055002-mcBcLO94Mv6voPIrNpXs0YNMxe0_20071109.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top The IDN names with .com extension has existed from 2001. Example: http://हिन्दी.com ICANN has began the testing of IDN Extension.
http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-15oct07.htm
The 2 Indian Language being tested are Hindi & Tamil and the test domains are:
http://उदाहरण.परीक्षा
http://உதாரணம்.பரிட்சை

Here is an article on WSJ about
“What’s the Hindi Word for Dot-Com?”
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119204776102055002-mcBcLO94Mv6voPIrNpXs0YNMxe0_20071109.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

The IDN names with .com extension has existed from 2001. Example: http://हिन्दी.com

]]> By: AD http://www.watblog.com/2007/10/17/alarm-internet-growing-glocally/comment-page-1/#comment-1395 AD Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:42:43 +0000 http://www.watblog.com/2007/10/17/alarm-internet-growing-glocally/#comment-1395 We all can see how regionalising on the web is improving day by day. We can Hindi growing on the web with websites, blogs and companies launching hindi based tools. We all know about Google and Orkut, I also came across this Hindi Web Stats tool launched by Gostats -- http://gostats.in We all can see how regionalising on the web is improving day by day.
We can Hindi growing on the web with websites, blogs and companies launching hindi based tools.
We all know about Google and Orkut, I also came across this Hindi Web Stats tool launched by Gostats — http://gostats.in

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