Ravi

I was surprised to see AOL Tamil site today. When was it launched? Besides Hindi, Tamil is the only Indian language present there and the trend to give importance for Tamil can be seen in almost all Indian portals. But it’s just market logic. Next to Hindi, Tamil seems to dominate the Indian internet market. [...]

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English and Tamil medium school text books of Tamilnadu state board education syllabus are now available online for free to be downloaded in PDF formats at http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/ .
Related reading:
தமிழ்நாட்டுப் பள்ளிப் பாடநூல்கள் இணையத்தில் கிடைக்கின்றன.

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When I checked the related keywords for Tamil in Google Adwords, it showed the following. It seems, Cinema and Porn top the list But this is as well a world wide trend for non-Tamil related content too.
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Quick Tip: Use the latest Firefox 3 RC1 and you can view all Tamil Unicode sites properly.
For Firefox 2 users, read below:
Windows:
If you have a problem with reading in all Tamil Unicode sites (example: Tamil Wikipedia, Maatru!),
Then go to start-control panel-regional and language options-languages and check both the options in supplemental language support. For installing [...]

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Came across two good concepts today.
Wikipital aims to make a wiki site with medical info in local languages. Currently there are very less pages in the tamil wikipital site. But, a good concept with lot of relevance and potential.
Tamil Ubuntu Planet collects ubuntu / GNU related tamil blog posts in one place.

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