Lipikaar

I just had to point some attention toward the good folks at Lipikaar.  To get a sense of their technology, just click that link and you’ll see the tool immediately on their website.

Here’s a link to their Firefox extension.

You don’t have to speak Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, Konkani, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Arabic or Urdu to see how cool or powerful this is.  But, if you do speak one of those 18 languages, now you’ve got a tool to help create content your constituents can read.  And, that’s thanks to Lipikaar.

I’m blogging about projects like Lipikaar and Heredict because I want to see how we can impact the web in new markets.  Localization is just one small piece.  With website evangelism and the ability to create content, users will start to see dramatic increases in what’s available to them on Firefox and on the Web more generally.

Please help spread this project around if you are in India or speak one of the languages listed above.