Domain Names in Indian Languages

Transliterating a Telugu word or phrase in English is challenging. Of late, I faced this problem when I tried registering a blog by the name abaddhaalu.blogspot.com

One of my guidelines was to register a name that would be easy to remember and at the same time be unambiguous so that users can type it right in the first go.
Abaddhaalu can also be written as abadhaalu, abaddhalu etc.
And that was the time when the idea of having Domain Names in local languages came to my mind. A wild guess that some organization like the w3c might already be working in this direction.

It would be interesting to see the challenges faced in this process.
Would love to have a domain in Telugu :)

హెటిటిపి://వవవ.అబద్ధాలు.బ్లాగ్ స్పాట్.కాం ;)

Updates as status messages ;)

I was about to check how Indians(Tendulkar actually) were doing in the second ODI at Gwalior. When I was about to do this, I saw a contact on my chat list change his status message to
"score .. 143/1 - 22.2 overs. "

I was wondering how would it be if a plugin updates our status message with the current score. ;) cricket scores especially.

Events from a news feed/news alert can also go as a status message.

Will we see and live in THE MATRIX?

Nice read.
The article concludes with this paragraph.

On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary! The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said "Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast"! That sums it up rather neatly.

Yeah, if this turns real, that would be amazing..... we would then be living in THE MATRIX.

Here is the link to the article, Have breakfast..... or be breakfast.

It's good to know negatives too!!!

Yippie..... I got an offer from a company X. I got another offer from company Y.
And now the dilemma begins..... whether to go for company X or company Y.

And the natural tendency is to search for a company's positive points and select the
one with more positives.

Interestingly, if one can come up with an 'Oracle' can list the positives and
especially the negatives of a company?

In simple terms,
'A Spider crawls the web for content about companies, performs sentiment analysis for getting polarity of the sentences for ranking'.
A user gives the name of a company he likes to know about:
Input: company X
Output: the positives and negatives of the company X.

This thought flashed in my mind when I was browsing for details
about a company(from which I got an offer). From few employees I have heard that the company
is closing down and there are few legal issues the company is involved in.

The task is quite challenging.
I am eagerly waiting for a product that focuses on this work.