http://www.qwiktionary.com

I am part of the team that helped creating LingoZ, and following on Erik’s comment (#15), I can assure you that many new cool features will be planned in the upcoming future.

Our company, Netica (http://www.neticagroup.com or in Hebrew: http://www.netica.co.il), helps companies like Babylon in creating new Web 2.0 community applications and design their applications’ GUI, as it does for many years for Israeli high tech leaders (some are more famous and some will become famous soon, hopefully).

This is a part of an Israeli market trend (and I guess global as well) of outsourcing and relying on specialized companies to assist existing development teams in specific proficiencies that involve high quality user experience, e-branding and GUI design and development.

We are anxious to get some feedback on these aspects as well.

Feel free to leave me here notes or write me directly to:
boazrossano {at} hotmail.com

Thanks!
Boaz Rossano
Netica, CEO

why no one thought about this before ?

The free content, non-profit alternative to Wiktionary is OmegaWiki, a structured wiki-like database. It is much more feature-rich than Lingoz (it can be used to maintain very complex ontologies), but still has some ways to go in terms of usability.

Roi….One error in the article you said Answers does not embrace UGC yet, Answers actually has a UGC Q&A site http://wiki.answers.com. I believe it is a distant 2nd to Yahoo! Answers.

Thanks for the clarification. You have a great site.

O ….. and of course Urbandictionary is ruler !!!

Daniel

My name is Eyal and I run the LingoZ operation at Babylon. Thank you for your comments; we appreciate the feedback!

I noticed that UrbanDictionary was mentioned several times in the comments and I would like to comment on that.

We really like UrbanDictionary and think they are doing a great job in being a cool site for American slang, but LingoZ is fundamentally different.

LingoZ is first and foremost a multilingual (both in UI and in content), general-purpose dictionary. It is not about a certain niche (such as slang) but rather a comprehensive resource, starting from the basic terms to the most up-to-date and esoteric, all are mapped to relevant categories, allowing users an in-context lookup for dictionary definitions and translations in multiple languages.

Building on our vast existing repositories, part of them user-generated (long before this became a hype), we believe we bring real value to the user right from the start. LingoZ is also introducing a unique glossary concept, encouraging users to contribute also by aggregating existing terms in topical lists for others to explore, and further cool features and APIs are in the works.

So thanks again for your attention, and we invite you all to further share with us your impressions.

Best wishes,

Eyal Barzilay

I was kinda shocked when i read a positive review of this on techcrunch, atleast once in our lives we have definitely visited the Urban Dictionary, its so obvious that lingoz is ripping it off the concept and some of the design/user  functionalities a…

What is needed is a system like wikipedia with a standardized format for terms and an API. That could open up the locked world of bilingual language referecens.

I’m leading the development of http://www.vocabo.com, a website that aims to help people take a managed approach to learning vocabulary. The website searches for ways the word has been used on the web, providing real life context which should help improve retention.

It allows you to save the words you’ve looked up in the past, enabling you to analyse how your vocabulary is growing and test how well you can remember the words’ meanings. Additional features are in the works, such as ‘word alerts’ that can feed users samples of how their word is being used in popular publications based on their topics of interest…

I think we are starting to see more and more recycled ideas.

From search engines that make specific link pages(old school yahoo). To group buy services like mobshop. To this.

I’ve type ‘Apple’ in their search results, which give me this —
“round fruit which grows on trees (usually red, green or yellow)”

I never seen red and yellow trees. Why would they put trees after parentheses?

They should print something like this:
Apple — is a fruit, which has stem, seeds inside, and it usually grow from tree. Its shape is almost like rounded cone and sometime round. An Apple can also have four different colors: (Red, Red-Yellow, Green or sometimes light green. )