This week, I am willing to share with you a new form of web 2.0 platform: Qwiki. Some of you probably heard about it; however, I found this news worth being shared with all, in a media criticism context.
Qwiki is defined as a new intelligence platform and the challenge of its creators is to have it replace all text-based search engines such as Wikipedia and Google.
Qwiki was founded in 2009 by Doug Imbruce, its current CEO. He acknowledged that product his company is about to offer is not an invention but rather relies on innovation. Indeed, the product combines the characteristics of existing web 2.0 platforms such as Wikipedia and Google with graphic/visual and audio functions. Basically, you experience information through your eyes and ears. Watch these three videos to see how your results will be displayed.
Right now the company expects the maximum of constructive feedback in order to improve the technical, design, and information quality/reliability of the portal. There is how it started:
You feel like you want to discover more? Go to www.qwiki.com and discover the "Information Experience."
Thank you for this post! I have heard the name mentioned recently, but never actually looked into it. In my Media Convergence class we were talking about web 2.0 and then the semantic web, and how everything is just getting more and more simple and easy to use, which is ultimately making us lazier to some extent. THIS is the perfect example. With search engines like this it diminishes the "searching" part and gives you everything up front. And hey, you don't even need to bother reading it since says it out loud. I'm not going to lie, I think it seems great and I will be more than happy to use it, but it really is crazy how simple technology is making everything.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for your comments Jenn,
ReplyDeleteYou're right, things are becoming much easier.
I am really thrilled by the Qwiki concept and at the same time a bit concerned. Qwiki will be an open source and as it is the case with Wikipedia everyone out there can contribute with texts, videos, pictures... How will Qwiki monitor all this flow of information in order to guarantee the relevance of the information?
Interesting! I haven't actually heard of this site before, but it seems like it might become a really big deal!
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