Welcome to Qwiki, the world’s first information experience.
Today, Qwiki enters private “Alpha” – a test phase where invited users offer feedback that helps us perfect Qwiki’s technology. If you haven’t received your invite yet, leave your email or follow us @Qwiki.
What is Qwiki?
Qwiki is the world’s first “information experience”, powered by a technology that transforms static information into interactive stories.
What can I do with Qwiki?
To start, Qwiki covers 2 million reference terms – including a wide variety of people, places and things. You can type in any indexed term and Qwiki will generate an “information experience” describing it.
Feedback is most important!
The purpose of the Qwiki Alpha is to gather feedback on each Qwiki you watch, via a form that appears at the end. You can also leave feedback at any time by clicking the “leave feedback” button.
Leave feedback on 25 Qwikis, and we will send you a t-shirt!
Let’s try experiencing “New Zealand”:
Search results appear in real time below the bar.
Once you select a Qwiki, your information experience will begin (note: if you experience slow loading times, please report them via the “leave feedback” button).
Watch as your selected term is transformed into a visual presentation accompanied by real-time audio narration and other data including:
- Maps
- Movies
- Images
- Animations
- …and much more coming soon!
Remember, every Qwiki is both immersive and interactive. You can click on objects within the Qwiki for further interactivity and a more detailed view of the object.
Browse maps
View full videos
Every Qwiki has “related” Qwikis, viewable by browsing the bar below the player, or clicking any image, video, or animation that has a “Q” in the top right corner.
You can also click on images in order to activate “detail view”. Detail view allows you to see the source of the image and to explore related Qwikis.
What to do when your Qwiki ends? You have lots of options:
- Replay and share the Qwiki
- Watch related Qwikis
- Explore the sourced pages on
Wikipedia, Google, flickr, and YouTube for your Qwiki
Remember, you can rate each Qwiki when it ends (or any time throughout by clicking the Leave Feedback post-it). This feedback is extremely important, as it helps us train the technology:
Soon you’ll be able to watch Qwikis on your Facebook friends, local restaurants – and we hope, eventually any topic in the world. In fact, any publisher or person will soon be able to create qwikis.
Be sure to follow us on Twitter @Qwiki, and send us questions, comments, critiques, and love at hi@qwiki.com. We look forward to hearing from you!