Archive for November, 2009

Read Die Weltwoche the smart way

November 25th, 2009 by Marc

Die Weltwoche

From now on, readers of the Swiss weekly magazine Die Weltwoche can start reading traditional print titles the smart way by using kooaba’s Smart Visuals. Take a picture of any page of interest in order to Explore, Share, and Organize your favorite articles. Here is how it works.

1. Sign up to kooaba to get your kooaba username and password

2. Download the kooaba iPhone application

3. Start the iPhone application, go to settings and enter your kooaba username and password

4. Snap a picture of an entire print page (fill out the whole display with the entire page)

kooaba iPhone appkooaba App

Now you can start exploring the digital copy of that page as well as links to additional content. kooaba is great to share or recommend Weltwoche articles to your friends. From now on, you can have the most interesting Weltwoche articles always with you or neatly organized in your online kooaba Library.

kooaba Library

In your kooaba Library, you can find your Smart Visuals again. If you want to visualize Weltwoche content, you can subscribe during 3 months for only 9 Swiss Francs.

Explore a new reading experience and let us know your thoughts.

If you don’t have access to an issue of “Die Weltwoche”, grab a Book, CD, DVD, or Video Game cover and see what happens if you make a Smart Visual of that.

Nominate kooaba for The Crunchies Award

November 25th, 2009 by Marc

The Crunchies are to technology what the Oscars are to Hollywood. The awards celebrate the best tech accomplishments of 2009. Please nominate kooaba in the category “Best International StartUp”. Simply click on the badge below.

Nominations are open through midnight (PST) December 4, 2009. Thanks a lot for your support!