SMS is an extremely popular mode of communication in India but is currently limited to people who can read (or write) English. There are SMSes being written in Punjabi, Tamil, Gujarati and many other Indian languages using Roman script so that they can be delivered over SMS.

A lot people I know started using the Internet when they discovered that there is so much content available in Hindi. I believe that there’ll be many many more people who would discover SMS when it’s available in their language.

Vakow! now supports Unicode which means that you can post SMSes in your language. You can type in any of the transliteration tools available (like this one) and copy-paste the text on Vakow! SMSes can be tagged in your language (http://www.vakow.com/tag/हिन्दी/sms/) and shared on email, Orkut or Facebook.

Though, we don’t yet support delivery of non-english SMSes over mobile (it’s being worked upon), we believe that users will find currently available sharing options useful and fun.

तो फ़िर देर किस बात की है. आइये अपनी अपनी भाषा में थोड़े बहुत SMS शेयर करें और इस सर्विस का मज़ा उठाये.

Even though we’re all about sharing SMSes with friends, we don’t want you to receive SMSes through us, if you don’t want to.

You can now send DND to 99015 54321 to stop all (Read ALL) SMSes from Vakow!

And later, when you change your mind, which we hope you do, you can send DND OFF to 99015 54321 to get back to normal and enjoy a life full of excitement and entertainment.

Here’s the link: http://www.vakow.com/dnd/ (We think it’s only polite….sigh)

We have made some banners that you can use to tell your friends that you’re on Vakow!

You can change the background color, background image etc. to design it in a way that it looks great on your website or blog.

Go on, show your love.

PS: Send us link of the page where you use it (leave the link as a comment) - we would like to see how it looks on your blog.