Monday, March 30, 2009

How to chat in Hindi using Gtalk and gmail?

Ever wondered how people have Hindi language status or do other than English conversations ?

Local language support such as Hindi is a cool thing to talk with friends and everyone will ask you - hey how to do that? how to type in hindi using Gtalk / Gmail ?

The simple answer is :
Gtalk / Gmail has a unique application/ way in which you can type in Hindi with your friends.

All you have to do is -

1. add en2hi@bot.talk.google.com
2. The bot will also add you in reply
3. Talk to the bot ( your new friend) and the text you can paste it elsewhere.

Example of the chat is -


Google Translation Bot information:

December 2007, Google has released the translation bots which are not getting popularity among the local language converstions. These bots are getting intelligent per day in terms of accuracy.

The new bots speak Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi), Hindi (hi), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Swedish (sv) and Traditional Chinese (zh-hant).

Happy chatting :)

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Top 10 Social Networking Websites & Forums

With UK’s leading social networking site Bebo.com, previously acquired by AOL(America On Line) in March 2008, entering India's online activity, lets checkout the US market share capitalization of Top Social Networking sites:


Note: The Hitwise data featured is based on US market share of visits as defined by the IAB, which is the percentage of online traffic to the domain or category, from the Hitwise sample of 10 million US internet users. Hitwise measures more than 1 million unique websites on a daily basis, including sub-domains of larger websites. Hitwise categorizes websites into industries on the basis of subject matter and content, as well as market orientation and competitive context. The market share of visits percentage does not include traffic for all sub-domains of certain websites that could be reported on separately.