First Social Bookmarking site in 6 languages

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Bangalore, Jul 2: Oneindia.in, a portal committed to developing regional content, launched OneBookmarks.com, the first bookmarking website with language options in English and 5 different Indian languages, namely, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

"Our aim is to bridge the gap between growing number of Tier-II or Regional Internet users and the surging amount of localized content available on the Internet," said Sriram Hebbar, COO, Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd., as Oneindia launched the multilingual social bookmarking site: OneBookmarks.

According to a recent study by JuxtConsult, 41 per cent of urban Internet users in India (30 million) prefer reading content in local languages. While the DoT is aiming to connect 1,00,000 villages through broadband by 2010, .IN domain registrations have already reached the 2,00,000 mark. These figures signify that there will be immense demand for content in local language and more such regional content is going to be developed in the days to come.

"While some of the Search Engines are introducing localised search facilities, creating a common area for storing searched local content was imperative," said Sriram.

OneBookmarks.com will be a common place for all users to store interesting and useful online resources, websites, stories, articles and posts. The unique feature is that the users can save URLs and add description or tags in either English or Regional [Unicode] text using phonetic or inscript language keyboard method.

While users share their bookmarks, other viewers will be able to search through the English/Regional language [Unicode] tags, rate the stories/articles and even discuss it with other individuals or friends.

Users have to create an account with oneindia.in for the service.

Oneindia.in (a part of Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd) is a leading integrated Internet portal - delivering content, community and commerce to Indian consumers, businesses and the global Indian community. The Oneindia.in language portals (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam) have been serving the regional audiences since 2000. Oneindia.in offers as-it-happens news with over 1,000 news articles going live every single day and compelling content in Entertainment that includes movies, music, regional cinema, Hollywood etc. Oneindia.in has online communities offering interest specific channels, extensive community features, local language editions, and more.

The Oneindia family - Oneindia.in, click.in, thatskannada.com, thatstamil.com, thatstelugu.com, thatsmalayalam.com, holidaymakers.in, careerindia.com.

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