There’s an interesting discussion taking place in the comments to this post on using the mobile for uploading photos on the web.
Almost on cue, Alootechie reports that ibibo, the site run by Naspers owned MIH India has launched several new features among which is a mobile feature that allows users to upload photos and blog using the mobile.
They’re also allowing users to blog in local languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu, though the tags and categories for posts remain in English…why? Other features include an answers solution called ibibo sawaal, wherein users will be paid for asking and answering questions. ibibo is also searching for ideas: they’ve got ibibo labs, much like Google labs, where they showcase products in the works. ibibo is preparing what seems to be a digg clone called newscola, with was acquired alongwith Bixee and Pixrat when RHR Networks Ltd was acquired by MIH India. Of course, we’d been told about some of these products by Arunava Sinha, Content Head at MIH India. When is the big ticket acquisition taking place?
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There’s an interesting discussion taking place in the comments to this post on using the mobile for uploading photos on the web.
Almost on…
Nikhil,
Newscola came by acquisition of Bixee & Pixrat company – RHR Networks Ltd.
It is based on the open source Digg clone – Pligg (http://www.pligg.com)..which is the English fork of Meneame (google for meneame)
There are already 6-8 of such clones already for Indian news / blogs..but none have gotten traction like digg of course.
also, on the mobile photo feature of ibibo, it seems to be a WAP based solution — access the wap site from gprs enabled phone and then upload photos.
-pranav.
Finally someone realises the need for direct Indian language input (ibibo's keyboard layout is flawed, but kudos for at least taking a step in that direction). Hopefully biggies like Yahoo! and Google will follow suit. Especially Yahoo, which has launched local language portals.
thanks Pranav. Have asked for an official confirmation.
Cram: raftaar.com has a had a pretty neat input for their search engine for quite a while. I'm just wondering if there's an issue with implementing their solution for other language portals, and maybe for other languages as well…
quick clarification: ibibo's indian language blogging is a phonetic solution. you speel a hindi or tamil word as you would is writing it in the english (roman) script and it comes out pretty weel in the language you chose. the keyboard cram is referring to is just an imahe showing which english key maps to which indian language key but i didn't look at it, tyoing is pretty intuitive, at least in hindi. anyone tried the other languages? oh and i think the sms blogging is awesome! i foress people using it a lot, if only iibibo can make it free :)
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