| Social network site enhances language learning |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Sunday, 20 January 2008 | |
Here's a neat idea: a new social networking site designed to help people learning a second language by facilitating networking between students, and perhaps reciprocal relationships where each is learning the other's language.
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VoxSwap allows users to exchange instant messages and talk via an inbuilt VoIP service. Users can personalise their profiles with video, pictures, tags and further information about themselves. VoxSwap incorporates on-screen virtual keyboards to cater for the different character sets of different languages. But one thing it does not appear to have at present is a user interface in any language other than English. VoxSwap was officially launched on 17 January, and according to one blog site on that date had 225 registered users. The company has not revealed its revenue model. There is at present no charge for registration, and no advertising. The site has been built using the Kwiqq social networking software , billed as a system designed for rapid deployment, simple setup and easy extensibility of social networking websites. It is the first site to be build using Kwiqq version 2 which is based on Symfony, an open source PhP framework. |
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