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Blogger adds transliteration

Hasn’t turned up on MY account yet, but I read on the Google Operating System that Blogger is going to add transliteration for Hindi. Mind that it’s not the same as translation, it will simply convert to Hindi what you type in English. Of course, don’t count on it to work each time, because it’s simple going according algorithms and will be far from perfect. Might give a boost to blogging in India though. Nah, it won’t. But the youth will love it, and will use it a lot, peppering their posts with bits of Hindi at places. Which, IMHO, sucks.

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Picasa WebAlbums now gives more storage

Google’s Picasa WebAlbums now offers more storage to users, upgrading from 250 MB to 1 GB. In an interesting thing, it shows up as ‘1 GB and counting’, which means it could probably be going the Gmail way.

This would definitely come as a big blow to Yahoo!’s Flickr, which by far the most popular photo sharing site. However, with it’s monthly bandwidth limit of 100 MB (earlier it was an even more measly 20 MB), it might find the going tough.