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Let the Students Teach - They'll Get Smarter
There's a now famous tale about Facebook founder and Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg creating a group study tool for an art history final. As the story goes Zuckerberg was supposed to be studying for the exam but instead conceived a website and uploaded 500 Augustan images to it with a comment section for each picture he posted. He enabled his classmates to fill in all the comments and share their notes.
When Kevin Rose Talks, We Should Listen
There's a piece on ReadWriteWeb today titled "Kevin Rose's 10 Tips for Entrepreneurs". Kevin is a serial entrepreneur, the founder of Digg, and considered a pundit on the tech scene.
Building new online communities is always a tricky proposition; so as we set out to build Wordzoku, we frequently study the tips and advice online gurus like Rose or Jason Calacanis disperse about user experience and growing audience when bootstrapping your own business.
New Site ~ Wordzoku.com
We're starting this blog to talk about projects like Wordzoku, and help build a community around that project. http://wordzoku.com
Wordzoku is now open for beta. It's FREE!
What is Wordzoku? It's a way to increase your vocabulary by learning a new word and using it in a sentence.
The best way to learn new words is by putting them to use. A vast majority of words are learned from context, and with crowd sourcing we can provide many examples on how to use words.