Nepalese Technology Navigator
Nepal was trending once again in Twitter this afternoon. Because of international media coverage on a small plane crash in Himalayan outskirts (Read: Nepal Plane Crash kills 15 on The Wall Street Journal here) and Nepalese discussing the chaos related with federalism issues must be the reasons for this trend of Nepal in Twitter, the microblogging social site (the first reason accounts for 99% of the trend). [Read more...]
Nepali Social Networking Sites – img by GorkhaCreed
Well, we are convinced by now that nearly the whole of the Internet Population in Nepal uses Facebook, the most popular social networking website (Read: : सामाजिक सञ्जाल फेसबुक र ट्वीटरमा कति नेपाली होलान्?) As of March 3, 2012, there are more than 13 lakh Nepalese in the Facebook. While this large number of netizens are using international social networks, there are more than a dozen Nepalese or Nepal-based Social networks already – most of them are clone of Facebook in one or the other aspect.
Usual features like wall posting, images and videos sharing, group formation and page creation, chating/IM etc. are found in all of these social sites. Sadly, none of these so-called Nepalese Social Networks have user interface in Nepali language itself (except one, find it below) and don’t use Secure version (https). Let’s explore this list of Nepalese social networks.
Nepali youths and netizens are taking about the latest social site in the K-town but are these truly Nepali social networks. Making a new free social media site has become easy using Content Management Systems (CMS) platforms and our publishing houses easy get them covered without understanding the technology used behind. Whatever the situation is, let’s see what are the latest free social sites in our context.
VoIP Internet Telephony, img from instablogsimages.com
Last time we wrote about Wireless Internet service providers in Nepal, many of which happen to be legal VoIP providers as well. However, after many illegal VoIP activities going on in the country, the government had decide to legalize it. That has lead to many larger providers go into the voice-data-telephony business.
IPv4, the most popular and used addressing system in the internetworking, has been exhausted and organizations can no longer avail for the free block of IPv4 addresses. In order to compensate this exhaustion of IP addresses, a new addressing mechanism called IPv6 has already been in use. While IPv6 is more advanced and sophisticated than the IPv4, there are many projects going on to encourage the use of IP version 6. The world is going to celebrate the IPv6 launch day in coming June 6.
It is time to get an IPv6 address for your website or a blog, don’t worry it doesn’t hurt to have a new addressing mechanism along with the existing IPv4 no matter how popular your site is. Here is a nice infographics by the CloudFlare’s team regarding IPv4 versus IPv6, and why you should get a free IPv6 for your domain today. (Note: World is observing IPv6 launch day on coming June 6, 2012)
