Owner: LexiBlog - The Official Blog of Leximo, a World Social Dictionary URL:http://blog.leximo.org Join Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:48:59 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: News, rants and updates about Leximo, travel, and foreign languages and culture. Site statistics:Click here
How to Learn a Language in 1 Hour 2008-12-18 19:00:50 "How long does it take to learn Chinese or Japanese vs. Spanish or Irish Gaelic? I would argue less than an hour." - Tim FerrisTim Ferris of the 4 Hour Work Week shows you how to learn any language in less than 1 hour.
LexiBlog now on iTunes 2008-12-12 17:50:12 I submitted LexiBlog to iTunes
, and our podcast has been approved and LexiBlog is now on iTunes. Subscribe to us here, LexiBlog on iTunes.If you don't have iTunes, but would still like to subscribe to our podcast, then subscribe here, LexiBlog Podcast.All of this is done thanks to Odiogo. You may have noticed it as the "listen now" button on top of each blog post. This cool feature, allows each Le
The Leximo Dictionary Manifesto 2008-12-12 17:07:48 We have been receiving several questions about Leximo. So we have decided to put together a manifesto that we hope answers and explains the principles and vision of Leximo. Without further ado, we are proud to present "The Leximo Manifesto
".IntroductionLeximo is a “Social Dictionary
” that invites users to submit words in every spoken language of the world. Since each word can be submitted by m
LexiBlog - The Official Blog of Leximo 2008-12-09 23:17:37 I would like to officially welcome you to Leximo's new blog, "LexiBlog". Catchy eh? haha.More to come. Stay posted.
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Leximo Internships 2008-12-09 23:16:32 This is a unique opportunity for an ambitious, multi-talented individual who wants to see the inside of a fast-moving blog and startup, and work closely with the founders. The ideal candidate is a future journalist or entrepreneur who is willing to work hard and do a wide variety of tasks in order to get their foot in the door, learn, and make connections. You will work directly with Leximo, with
Gabbin 'bout Languages 2008-12-09 23:15:00 Hey guys,We really want to use Lexiblog to talk about the many different languages and cultures of the world, whether that includes commenting on the history, geography and "culture" of the language or even on various grammatical forms and styles. So stay tuned!
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Leximo Testing Phases 2008-12-09 22:49:31 On Tuesday we invited our 2nd phase of testers for Leximo. Everything is coming along great, and we're receiving great feedback. In addition, we were able to fix bugs and issues that occurred during the two testing phases.Leximo will continue to invite users in testing phases. We hope to be ready to open up a public beta in about a month or so.If you're still interested in receiving an invite, con Read more:Testing
Dancing Matt Harding - Where the Hell is Matt? 2008-12-07 00:25:03 Who the hell is Dancing
Matt?Matt is a guy that traveled the world doing one thing...dancing and meeting people. And he took a camera with him. People love dancing Matt because he was able to capture the beauty of the world's different people and cultures through his journey. A beauty that we forget while living our hectic lives.This is the very same beauty we are trying to capture with Leximo. Ou Read more:Harding
Leximo on Uservoice 2008-12-05 00:09:33 Leximo is now on Uservoice. What is Uservoice you ask? Uservoice is an online suggestion box for Leximo. Do you have an idea? Do you recognize a good idea when you see one? We want to hear from you! Help tell us what features you want to see added to Leximo.If your idea receives enough votes, we'll implement the idea.So go ahead and suggest your ideas to us by clicking the green feedback tab on t
Meet the Leximo Team 2008-12-03 13:14:00 The Leximo team consists of two co-founders, Ian Balina and Asad Mahmood.Ian Balina was born in Kampala, Uganda and is currently a student of The George Washington University where he is completing his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. Ian is well versed in the fields of technology, programming, and online and social media marketing. In addition, he is a well recognized social media mav
Leximo is Open - 130 Invites Sent Out Today 2008-12-02 09:46:32 Leximo has officially opened today and we had a rush of invite requests within the last 12 hours. I was able to sneak some people onto the invite list at the last minute.Congratulations to the lucky 130 VIPs and we are proud to have you help Leximo out in our quest to unify the world's languages.One thing we would like to note is that we currently only have 100,000+ words, all in English. Our goal Read more:Today
Leximo Opens Tuesday (Dec. 2nd) w/112 VIPs 2008-12-01 21:51:10 The day is finally here, Leximo - The World's Dictionary, will be opening Tuesday
morning (Dec. 2nd). All the 112 people that signed up for our beta invites will have the chance to test out Leximo and give us feedback.I'm not gonna lie, its buggy and is a work in progress. Which is why we need all the help we can get to test and give us feedback.I will be sending out the invitations w/the beta cod
Leximo Preview 2008-11-30 00:41:55 I'm finishing up some final coding and plan to open Leximo for testing this coming week. The lucky Leximo VIPS that signed our invite form will have first dibs. So I've got together some simple screenshots of how it looks so far. Leave me your comments of what you think so far, positive or negative.For a High-Quality preview, go to Leximo's Flickr.
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Happy Turkey Day from Leximo 2008-11-27 16:53:05 Have a HappyTurkey
(Thanksgiving) Day.We are thankful for all the support from you, and are glad to be a part of the dictionary revolution.P.S. Some one should tell the Detroit Lions that it's no longer Pre-season.
Leximo on Social Media 2008-11-26 23:01:33 Being a strong proponent for the socialization of current dictionaries, Leximo is going to have a strong presence in Social
Media. Leximo will never be about us, it will always be about you, the users, as laid out in The Leximo Manifesto.With that being said, we have set up several profiles and accounts on numerous social media sites. These sites will provide channels of communication between our Read more:Social Media
Gone for Thanksgiving 2008-11-25 17:28:17 We've taken down Leximo to do some maintenance and fix some bugs. We hope to have everything fixed and back up next week. So kick back, relax and enjoy your hard earned Thanksgiving
break while we work overtime, haha.
Hindi vs. Urdu 2008-11-24 20:29:05 I'm from India, and one of the most interesting things I have come across are the similarities and differences between Hindi
and Urdu. So with that being said, I'm going to put on my scholarly hat and talk about these "brother tongues."Although "Modern Standard Hindi" is the official language of India and Urdu is a "scheduled" language in India based on vocabulary choice and cultural orientation,
The Leximo Revolution 2008-11-24 18:56:02 Why Leximo? What makes it so different from Urbandictionary or Wikipedia?These are some of the questions we have been receiving about Leximo.To answer that, our plan for Leximo differs from traditional dictionaries as well as other currently existing web dictionaries in that we plan to be an “Open Dictionary”. The information available is not restricted; users can do whatever they like with it
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