For the last 6 weeks I’ve been head deep coding for a new startup wordia.com The idea is rather fresh - to allow people to learn the meaning of words by watching videos of people saying what the word means to them. So far my favourites include invention by Nikki Grahame of big brother fame, bannana by two randoms at Edinburgh festival and, as everybody looked up rude words when they first got access to a real dictionary, incest.
It’s been a really hard few work so was very rewarding on launch day (after 4.5 hours of sleep) to see London’s press arrive at our launch event (see photo left). The site went down well and we featured in most the major newspapers in the following days. It was also great to meet our backer Michael Birch in person having recently exited from Bebo
In the coming months we’ve lot of new features planned and exciting people lined up to film with. I’ll also be dropping back down to 3 days per week so I can get working on my own projects again. It should be an exciting 3 months.
I’m George Palmer and rowtheboat.com is my personal blog. I’m a freelance developer living and working in London and the picture on the left is, quite obviously, me. 
