BWI: Rediff Launches All New Blogs Platform in 9 Languages

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Rediff.com India Ltd
Monday, December 14, 2009 04:59 PM IST (11:29 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, Economy; Business: Advertising, PR & marketing, Banking & financial services, Business services, Financial Analyst, Information technology, Stock exchanges; Technology
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Rediff Launches All New Blogs Platform in 9 Languages


Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Monday, December 14, 2009 -- (Business Wire India) -- Rediff.com India Limited (NASDAQ: REDF) today announced that Rediff Blogs will replace its earlier blogging platform RediffiLand, which has more than half a million blogs. Rediff Blogs has social media elements that create viral growth enabling bloggers on the site to quickly get noticed. Hot topics under discussion at any given point of the day can be found in the 'What's the buzz' section of the service.

Rediff Blogs supports 9 major Indian languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Gujarati, Malayalam and Kannada. Users can upload photos and videos to their blogs with their comments in a matter of seconds. The service enables users to adopt themes powered by WordPress and a wide variety of widgets like Category/Tag cloud to choose from. Blogs posted on the service can be discovered by over 14 million users of Rediff.com through social media tools on Rediff MyPage. Already home to many active bloggers, the new version of Rediff Blogs has been finalized after extensive user feedback and research to give a complete & simplified blogging experience.

Visit Rediff Blogs at http://blogs.rediff.com.

About Rediff.com

Rediff.com (Nasdaq: REDF) is one of the premier worldwide online providers of news, information, communication, entertainment and shopping service.

Rediff.com provides a platform for Indians worldwide to connect with one another online. Rediff.com is committed to offering a personalized and secure user experience. Founded in 1996, Rediff.com is headquartered in Mumbai, India, with offices in New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and New York, USA.

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CONTACT DETAILS
Mandar Narvekar, Rediff.com India Ltd, +91 (22) 24449144, mandarn@rediff.co.in

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