Tech | September 09, 2008 | 4 comments

Bebo founder wants to out-dictionary the dictionary

source: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/bebo-founder-wa.html

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Michael Birch, who sold Bebo to AOL earlier this year for $850 million, is now planning a social video dictionary.

Birch has teamed up with a television producer, Edward Blake, to create Wordia. The idea is based on the popularity of Wikipedia and YouTube, but leans on the notion idea that people are insanely in love with the English language.

Will it take off? I suppose when you have $850 million in the bank anything is possible.
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4 comments // Bebo founder wants to out-dictionary the dictionary

  • saverio
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      saverio  

    • It looks like the next level of user-generated dictionaries.

      If it is a video version of WordReference (trustworthy dictionaries + user comments), I'm all for it.

    • 4 years ago
  • purplefox
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    • What on earth is a video-dictionary? It'd take so much longer to watch a new entry than to quickly scan through one - or are they planning to take actual words out of the dictionary? Wouldn't surprise me, being Bebo...

    • 4 years ago
  • Mr_Costello
  • abbym0308
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      abbym0308  
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    • A video dictionary? I like the idea but not sure that watching people talk about their favourite words is going to make me understand them any better. But then, there's probably more to it than that. This article has a big more info... there's a launch party in a couple weeks. Tea and cake anyone?

    • 4 years ago
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