Qwiki

Qwiki. Is it the next Google?

Late last week, it received $8 million in venture capital from prominent names like Eduardo Saverin (co-founder of Facebook) and Jawed Karim (co-founder, YouTube).

So what exactly is Qwiki (pronounced like 'quicky') and why is it the buzz of the digital information consumption industry?

Doug Imbruce, CEO of Qwiki, said the problem with digital information consumption today is not the lack of it but rather the overload of it.

There are few startups that have fueled as much passion and hatred all at once as Qwiki. The service, which we covered as the winner of Disrupt: San Francisco, aims to change the way in which we consume information. 

While the proof-of-concept demonstration was strong, showing a visualized, narrated version of the information displayed in Wikipedia, the service still has quite a fewnay sayers who think it won’t fly.

To get more access to Qwiki, users can sign up for their alpha program at their website.

Here is  Qwiki with founder Doug Imbruce