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80 lines
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Word Buddies
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Here is a **real story**:
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> **Cihan** and **Aylin** are living together in beautiful Berkeley.
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> Cihan works at a high-tech company in San Francisco;
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> while Aylin goes to school at UC Berkeley for her Phd. degree in Law.
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> Often times she comes across interesting English words at school which she wants to practice and learn.
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> Since some of the words and terminology are used in both of their subjects, this would benefit them both.
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There was one little problem, though:
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> There wasn't an easy way of sharing words with each other throughout the day,
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> other than sending whatsapp message or emails. Both of which, suck.
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Here, at **WordBuddies ™**, we will…
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* present lists of words in an intuitively **accessible** way;
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* With **fun**;
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* and with **competition**.
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**WordBuddies ™** is (*or, let us say, "will be"*) an addictive platform for all word-lovers.
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> You will learn vocabulary using the **BuddyEffect ™** and **gamification**, without even realizing that you do!
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…
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**ahem** \'nuf hints already, wait for the hackathon demo **;)**.
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About Us
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===========================
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### Begül Tunç
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Designista.
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Makes photoshop "sing".
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Crafts be-a-u-tiful interfaces so fast that, sometimes we suspect she freezes time or something.
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### Cihan Şahin
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The biz guy.
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He can wear many hats, including "usability expert", "coder", "designer associate", "marketing manager".
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His energy, and stamina, is what makes this group a "**team**"!
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[Follow him »»](https://twitter.com/icsahin)
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### Volkan Özçelik
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Jack of all trades, master of JavaScript.
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If somehting can be done with JavaScript, Volkan has probably created a prototype of it as a "side-project" somewhere.
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He has been actively developing in the industry since "Netscape Navigator 4".
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He talks at conferences, writes books and articles, and plays Skyrim.
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See [volkan.io](http://volkan.io/) and [@linkibol](http://twitter.com/linkibol) for how he does what he does.
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Tecnhologies We Will Use
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* Node.JS;
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* NGINX;
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* Redis;
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* MongoDB;
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* Sockets and Streams (*and PubNub, of course!*);
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* Love, passion;
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* and Redbull (*was that a sponsor?*).
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