Webdunia Launches In Five More Indian Languages
By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 24 Jun 2007 11:10 PM PST
Webdunia, a portal with channels such as Bollywood, lifestyle, religion, science, IT, career, astrology, literature, etc, is making its content available in 5 more languages—Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada and Punjabi, according to exchange4media.com. The portal’s content is already available in Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil. The Web site is also trying to integrate its Internet and Mobile service. “But the problems surface when the handsets are not language compliant,” said Jaideep Karnik, Head-Content and Localisation, Webdunia. Only the Nokia N-series is able to facilitate varied language usage, and only some service providers are able to provide the content. Next on the agenda are blogs and e-cards. “Blogs are available in very few languages and we want more people to have access to them and contribute to them,” Karnik said. “Similarly, we have seen that the NRI community loves to receive cards in their own languages.”
