Urban Dictionary has collaborated with VHX.tv to create a new site that brings users more than just definitions of colloquialisms.

Urbandictionary.tv is Urban Dictionary with a video component.

Unlike the original site, Urbandictionary.tv does not require users to type search queries; rather, users are invited to explore random definition/video combinations that the team behind the site considers best.

The site is built using the embeddable VHX video player, which plays videos from YouTube and Vimeo.

Founder and CEO Aaron Peckham of the original site said that he “felt like [Urban Dictionary] was telling people too many things that were inaccurate, instead of keeping up more with the Internet age”.

Peckham hoped to add a feature on Urban Dictionary where people could record their own videos or embed them in definitions—which brought about Urbandictionary.tv.

Users can contribute videos by going to the original site, look up the word they wish to ‘define’, and attach a YouTube/Vimeo link into the field.

The link would be reviewed and may, or may not, end up on the site.

“I hope that, like UrbanDictionary.com, some of the best content on the new site is going to be produced by the masses,” Peckham said. “Just by people who’ve got their own creativity and ideas about what a word means to them.”

“It will be interesting to see what kind of creative stuff people come up with to express certain words and phenomenon in society,”Peckham continued. “Everyone’s got a high definition camera in their hands now, and I can’t wait to see what they do with that power.”





[via Fast Co Create]




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