Barnes & Noble's new Nook Color e-reader, on which our opinions at CrunchGear are divided, represents the first major application of Dictionary.com's new API tools. They launched them late last month, and I just spoke with Dictionary.com's President, Shravan Goli, about their approach to modernizing the centuries-old market of providing definitions. It's a difficult proposition, and one that is being faced by a number of free or almost-free services out there. People won't pay to have unfamiliar words defined for them, yet here is Dictionary.com, a thriving business. It's one of the situations on the new web where monetizing seems to result directly from authority.Monday, November 1, 2010
Dictionary.com Opens Its API And IP With Nook Color, Hopes To Define Dictionary Functions
Barnes & Noble's new Nook Color e-reader, on which our opinions at CrunchGear are divided, represents the first major application of Dictionary.com's new API tools. They launched them late last month, and I just spoke with Dictionary.com's President, Shravan Goli, about their approach to modernizing the centuries-old market of providing definitions. It's a difficult proposition, and one that is being faced by a number of free or almost-free services out there. People won't pay to have unfamiliar words defined for them, yet here is Dictionary.com, a thriving business. It's one of the situations on the new web where monetizing seems to result directly from authority.
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