Qwiki Just May Be The Future Of Information Consumption. And It’s Here Now.

[rblion]

http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/qwiki/

[moe]

Qwiki was created by Doug Imbruce and Louis Monier. [...] He’s also worked at [...] the search startup Cuil as the VP of Product.

The cynic in me suggests this will probably not be "The Future Of Information Consumption". Perhaps a little less hyperbole would be in order after the spectacular failure that was cuil?

[rblion → moe]

shit happens. doesn't mean they can't try again.

[gojomo → moe]

Have some perspective! Monier also did the original AltaVista and spent years at both eBay and Google during their mega-growth stages.

Selection bias is a problem if you only look at notorious failures, as well. You seem to have an anti-survivorship-bias.

[jakerocheleau]

At least this is an interesting idea. I'd like to see how they can advance as computing power increases over the next few years

[rblion → jakerocheleau]

I agree. This, Opzi, and Namesake really stand out. I didn't really see much in the others, I could be wrong though...

[vegashacker]

Any one have a link to a video showing an actual Qwiki-created video?

[ritonlajoie]

From the TC article : "Say you do a search for a person, Qwiki can look at their social connections and tell you about their LinkedIn profile, for example. It is very, very impressive."

Well.. hmm.. That's interesting !