Lipik.in, which I’d covered earlier, has just launched several new, interesting features. To begin with, they have added support for Punjabi, Kannada and Tamil and several other languages are planned for this year. They have also added support for searching the web using multilingual queries - a super cool feature. Below is a screenshot showing search results for the term महात्मा. They have also added support for Blogger - so, you can directly post your Indic content, authored on Lipik, to your Blogger account.
I’m a firm believer in localization of content to Indian languages, and I think Lipik is taking the right steps in that direction. Give it a spin and let me know your thoughts.
Meanwhile, IndyaRocks keeps its innovation engine humming. They’ve released a mobile version of the site, which can be accessed at http://m.indyarocks.com. Almost all the features of the online version - people search, browser profiles, friend requests, messaging, graffiti wall, SMS - are available in the mobile version too. Meanwhile, they also launched friend updates (friend feed) for the online version.
Burrp has launched Burrp TV, a slick, TV listings guide for Indian TV lovers. They currently have a guide for 15 channels and have nice features like SMS reminders, broad searching related to TV shows etc. In terms of sticky content related to TV shows, I’d hope that they develop this content over time — passionate Indian TV fans form a strong community around such sticky content (See IndiaForums for an example). I’m not a TV aficionado and will hardly end up using Burrp TV, but it’d indeed be a pretty useful service to all the TV buffs out there.
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