Mozilla Firefox recently reached one billion downloads. To celebrate and promote it, Mozilla community has built a website called One Billion + You.
This site is also available in Telugu. You can see the site in Telugu if you have set Telugu as preferred language in your browser. Or, you can select Telugu from Other Languages drop down at the bottom of the page in that website.
One Billion + You site in Telugu (Click on the image for bigger view.)
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.
Some random bits about what is happening on the web about Telugu:
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:
MCX Stock Exchange (MCX SX) launches their website in Telugu language also.
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 23rd Hyderabad Book Fair.
If you didn’t know yet: 23rd 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 19th of December to 28th.
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This year’s Telugu Blogs Day is on Sunday, 14th 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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