Crossroads

Generally, your web browser—while requesting a web page from a website—asks for pages in your preferred language(s). Some websites serve their pages in the preferred language of the user. So, if you set your preferred language to Telugu, websites will serve you content in Telugu, if available.

Your web browser comes with a default choice of languages. If you download a web browser in your language, this setting might be right. Else, if you use English web browser, you can set ‘Telugu’ as preferred language in your browser.

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Some random bits about what is happening on the web about Telugu:

• TED talks are now available in Telugu. We can participate in translating the talks into our native languave via TED Open Translation Project.
• You can also find some videos with Telugu subtitles in dotSUB. Not all of them are translated 100%. But, you can help out.
• TeluguNow.com, a new website in (Unicode) Telugu
• Here is yet another way to type in Telugu: Transliteration Bookmarklet.

Telugu content on the web is growing in many ways: blogs, micro blogs, webzines, forums, portals are popping up. With the growing content, there is also a growing (though at a lower rate) trend of searching in Telugu.

All most all search engines today can (and do) index content in Unicode. So, if one knows typing in Telugu, one can enter a keyword in any search engine and get results in Telugu. Here is a screen shot of Google search for Telugu keywords:

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I’ve learned that Facebook is now available in Telugu (via). Here is a screen shot of Facebook’s Telugu home page (click on the image for bigger view):

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MCX Stock Exchange (MCX SX) launches their website in Telugu language also.

MCX SX’s Telugu website (click on the image for bigger view)

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Telugu Ratna (teluguratna.com) is a new generation, social, web 2.0 site for Telugu people by Telugu people in Telugu language. The membership and other services of the site are free.
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As the awareness that people can now see and type Telugu on their computers and on the web generally increases, the Telugu content on the web keeps growing. A part of the Telugu content lives on the social networking sites. Here are some of the Telugu social networking sites that I came across. The specialty of these sites is that they are not only for Telugu people, but also they are in Telugu.
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e-Telugu, an organization working for Telugu on the web, is operating a stall (Stall No. D, next to Eenadu stall) in the 23^rd Hyderabad Book Fair.

If you didn’t know yet: 23^rd Hyderabad Book Fair is taking place at People’s Plaza, Necklace Road, Hyderabad. The timings are 2:00 pm to 9:00 pm for 10 days starting from 19^th of December to 28^th.
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This year’s Telugu Blogs Day is on Sunday, 14^th of December. If you are in Hyderabad, you can join us in e-Telugu meeting.

Telugu Blogs Day is celebrated to encourage the spread and growth of Telugu blogs. The idea of Blogs Day was started in 2007 as the TeluguBlog group crossed 1,000 members in December of that year.
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Opera Software relesead the latest version of their web browser, Opera 9.6, especially to meet the needs of Indain market.

New in this version is Telugu localization, in addition to Hindi and Tamil. Here is a screen shot of Telugu Opera (click on the image for a bigger version):

Opera.com home page in Telugu Opera

Link to download Telugu Opera: opera.com/download (don’t forget to select Telugu radio button)

See more Telugu Opera screen shots and other details.