Sean Kollak

Twick.it is not a scientific encyclopedia
such as Britannica, Wikipedia or Encyclopedia of Life – but an interactive, informative and entertaining explain engine.

Twick.it is not a classical search engine
like Google, Bing or Evri which uses bots to automatically index the web – but a knowledge data base filled and valuated by humans.

Twick.it is not a social network
á là Facebook or Linked in. There is no chat function – only the possibility to send direct mails (DM). The networking aspect is secondary and powered by topics.

Twick.it is not a microblog
such as Twitter where random news can be spread. Instead it is based on a structural encyclopedic basis.

Twick.it is not a counsel community
such as Ask.com or Yahoo Clever! No questions of individuals are answered. Instead topics are explained in a general way.

Twick.it is not a thesaurus
such as OpenThesaurus which only explains synonyms, abbreviations and specific terms. Twick.it is not limited to a certain area of topics.

Twick.it is not a slang glossary
such as UrbanDictionary which collects extraordinary topics.

Twick.it is not a bookmarking-tool
like Delicious or Mr. Wong where you can collect links on a neutral platform and tag and share them.

Twick.it is not a dictionary
such as LEO or Dict. But you can compare explanations of topics in different languages.

Twick.it is no…
cookbook, star forum, photo community, film data base, file sharing host, weapon dictionary, telephone book…

Twick.it is what you make of it!

Twick.it combines elements of the things it is not.

Twick.it could be described as a micro blog-encyclopedia in which you can explain specific terms, abbreviations, slang, synonyms and translations, which you can use to bookmark topics and build a topic driven social network. But most importantly the Twick.it search offers short, precise explanations written and valuated by humans.

Tags: concept, encyclopaedia