Have u ever wanted one of your articles to be read by everyone? or atleast by a lot of people?. In my school ages i did a lot. Well the solution for this problem is about to be opened for public. Muraasil.com is a new Maldivian startup focusing on open journalism and open literature. Muraasil allows users to write and publish articles to a larger audience easily, without the need of emailing it to a local newspaper. What you have to keep in mind is that this is a Maldivian service and is for “Dhivehi“.
A simple registration form allows users to publish articles for free, and users can have multiple profiles and have access to the notifications of the comments made on their artciles.
Not only muraasil offers these unique features, but also a great interface built for usabilty. Articles are categorised and well structured. One other great thing about this service is its support for different thaana keyboards. We all know typing thaana can be a pain in the ass, if the methodolgy used by the application is not what the user ahs get used to.
User can select what keyboard he/she is familiar with in the preference, also can easily select a keyboard from 4 different major thaana keyboards.
As you can see from the image (right) muraasil also supports Latin to Thaana conversion. Which means user can post a comment like ” test kuraniy” and will appear as “
“. Cool huh? 
. You can also use muraasil on the go. The not yet announced mobile interface allows users to login to the service from a mobile phone and post short news of whats happening now, named as “kuru habaru”. This lating text will be converted to thaana and will be published on the website. The service also includes a built in dhivehi dictionary (radheef) for a better language and allows users to include images/videos in their articles.
Channels in muraasil can be used by educational institutes schools for their teachers to manage all their students works online at an easily managble space. These channels can be either public or closed private groups.
You cant access muraasil.com yet. For now its only allowed for private beta (Eveyla 1.0) testers only. But we are expecting it to be released for public on the following few weeks (or less). This could be the next great online service in dhivehi. May be this could take over dhivehi wikipedia even, since its local made. So keep checking www.muraasil.com
Here are more screenshots.
Little Update :
here are some screen shots of the user channels. Check out the latest two photos of the gallery above
Hi..i like this…this is called creativity
wow, this is the kind of thing we need… u guyz r just great…
sounds interesting……………..lets see dhw
waiting for this to be published
wait no longer, just few more days!!!
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hmmm, this is cool….
All the while, they make the rich white men that own them richer by the day. ,
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That is so innovative! I liked it.
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