Qwiki, Information Consumption is easier now than from Google or Wikipedia!.

Hi friends,

In this post, I am going to write about the "Qwiki" which is the most awesome source of Information Consumption that we have ever dreamed of. Technology is always changing and evolving day by day and new things are coming all the time. In the same series "Qwiki" is the most awaited innovation that human has been waiting for consuming the information. Well, lets go first on what is Qwiki.

Qwiki

A “Qwiki” is a short, interactive story: a drastically improved information experience provided via interactive video. Unlike traditional rich media content, all Qwikis are created on the fly from web sources (without any human intervention). And This is amazing. (I am just wondering of which algorithm and how much AIs has been used within.)

Qwiki was created by Doug Imbruce and Louis Monier. The latter you may know as the founder of one of the original web search engines, AltaVista.

In my college time, when I was doing engineering, I took Multimedia Subject on elective. And I used to study that how interactive multimedia system can make your life easy to consume information. When I heard about Qwiki and used it, I just knew that this is what we used discuss that in Future, the information consumption would be much more easier than we use google or wikipedia to acquire information.

Today, Qwiki produces 3MM+ interactive, narrated Qwikis describing all the topics on Wikipedia - complete with relevant images, video, and structured data imported from linked sources. These Qwikis are embeddable anywhere on the web and compatible with all iOS devices. (iPhone, iPad)

Qwiki was launched in alpha testing mode on January 24, 2011 after it won the TechCrunch Disrupt Award in 2010. To know about brief history and partners of Qwiki, please visit this wikipedia link. It also raised $1.5 million dollar on TechCrunch from Groupon co-founders. Visit here for full news. This post also give nice views on Qwiki.

It has also released different MarkUp Languages and APIs through which, its different partners produced beautiful interactive experiences at scale.

What Qwiki Does?

1. Whatever topic you type in its search box, it will explain about your topic in audio and visual output in video format.
2. Now you don't have to read all lines to acquire information. Just give rest to eye a bit and hear voices. The voices are also of great quality.
3. Qwiki talks to you, telling you all you need to know about what you searched for, while also showing you key things about the subject or person.
4. And the data isn’t just from Wikipedia. Say you do a search for a person, Qwiki can look at their social connections and tell you about their LinkedIn profile, for example. But this feature is not available for all users now (like u and me). Hope in next release it would be great.

Benefits 

There are loads of benefits of Qwiki. Some of the vital are as follows:

1. Your eye strain will be definitely low coz you don't have to read all lines in the web pages. It's very great that our eyes will have less strain and ears would also assists you to acquire all informations.
2. Students who needs to find quick understanding and knowledge from internet would be very benefited from this site. It's lot easier to acquire information with this Product.
3. Fast way to consume any information would lead in acquire knowledge faster which is great.

If you guys have any known benefits please do leave comments below. I will add it to this list definitely. Let's have your say. Thanks and happy sharing.

Sources:

1. Wikipedia - Qwiki
2. Disrupt Winner Raises Like $1 million from Groupon Cofounders
3. CrunchBase: Qwiki