TechCrunch Disrupt winner Qwiki launches publicly at 12pm PST today after a week filled with the news, most notably that of an $8 million funding round led by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and YouTube founder Jawed Karim. Qwiki, for those of you who haven’t been following the hype, basically reads heavily Wikipedia-sourced articles out loud with photo and video accompaniments. Heralding itself as an “information experience,” Qwiki has about 3 million reference topics at the time of its launch and hundreds of thousands of users according to a release. In testament to its success building buzz pre-launch, it was “spoof” cloned over the weekend using only 321 lines of code. New features in the public alpha include “Share” or the ability to post, tweet, email or embed Qwikis, “Improve this Qwiki” or the opportunity to contribute content such as YouTube videos and pictures to Qwikis as well as give feedback on sound quality, and a text-based “Contents” section that includes all the information in a given Qwiki. Read more: TechCrunch
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