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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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 !