We’d like to share a great panel at the World Economic Forum 2009 in Davos with Chad Hurley (YouTube), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Shantanu Narayen (Adobe), Hamid Akhavan (T-Mobile), Eric Clemens (Wharton), Mike Arrington (TechCrunch) and Craig Mundie (Microsoft) about social networking and the future of mobile. Enjoy!
Archive for the ‘Mobile Applications’ Category
kooaba Search 2.0 available
January 27th, 2009 by Marc
In September 2008 we introduced the world’s first application for visual search on the iPhone. Today, we released version 2.0 of ‘kooaba search‘ as a free download on the Apple App Store.
What’s new?
In addition to movie posters, kooaba will now recognize hundreds of thousands of DVDs and give you information about the movie, such as the trailer, reviews or shopping links. Additional new features include:
- Significantly improved user interface
- Search results are shown in integrated browser
- Pictures can be taken from almost any point in the app
- Integration of geographic location for optimized search results
- Faster search
- Increased stability
Download the app now on iTunes and snap a picture of your favorite DVD. No DVD around? Test it with the packshot of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:
kooaba Search 1.0.1 available
September 30th, 2008 by Joachim
We released a small update to kooaba Search for iPhone today! Version 1.0.1 contains bugfixes and performance enhancements: Images will be submitted faster and the app should be more stable.
Head over to the App Store and install the update!
kooaba search now available on iPhone
September 15th, 2008 by Moritz
Finally!
Kooaba presents “kooaba search”, the worldwide first application for visual search on the iPhone.
Download it now for free in Apple’s AppStore. We strongly recommend to install the iPhone Software 2.1 update for a significant better performance.
Read the first reviews:
Mobile Visual Search for the iPhone!
June 9th, 2008 by Herbert
Fresh out of the kooaba labs: kooaba’s iPhone client!
It’s as easy to use as the iPhone itself: You see a movie poster you want to know more about (e.g. the feature Hancock): Just snap a picture using our new application and tap the search button. After the picture has been automatically sent and recognized you receive all relevant information about the movie such as the official trailer, reviews, information about the actors, or you can buy the soundtrack on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. No typing of search strings needed, no extensive browsing, just snap a picture instead! There is no faster way for mobile phones to get relevant information about real-world objects.
Below, we show a short video, which gives you a first impression of how the final application will look like on the iPhone 3G. The software will be available as a free download in the coming weeks.
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Mobile 2.0 tag cloud
May 30th, 2008 by Marc
Many people know Kosmar’s tag cloud with terms related to Web 2.0. Tag clouds are a great way to describe complex topics. Until now there was no tag cloud for Mobile 2.0. Until now! Just this morning Heike Scholz released it. Your feedback is highly appreciated!
New Version of kooaba Search client available / Watch trailers on youtube with kooaba
May 5th, 2008 by Till
The new version (1.2 Beta) of the kooaba Search client for your phone is now available for download. It offers a new, more useable interface and better stability.
The video below shows how to use the kooaba Search client to find movie trailers on youtube mobile directly from almost any recent movie poster. We currently hold tens of thousands of movie posters in our database, and Youtube recently ported most of it’s content to youtube mobile. A perfect combination.
Now, get the new client software here.
Mobile Slideshows with 20 minutes
October 11th, 2007 by Till
Readers of Switzerlands most popular tabloid, 20 minutes, have no the ability to interact with their newspaper. Using kooabas recognition service, readers can download MMS multimedia galleries for certain topics by taking a picture of the desired item and sending it by MMS to 20minutes. The response is a MMS slideshow including multiple additional pictures for the topic. The service currently runs daily in the edition of 20 minutes Romandie.
kooaba launches campaign with edipresse
October 11th, 2007 by Till
In September 2007 Edipresse launched an innovative campaign in cooperation with kooaba: readers of the tabloid le matin bleu could choose among three prices to win. Taking a picture of the desired price and sending it by MMS was sufficient to participate. Each user received a confirmation specific to the object they had chosen.
The campaign was a huge success, probably one of the most successful MMS campaigns in Switzerland ever.
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Client- and Server-Side Implementations
February 11th, 2006 by Till
We have successfully ported the image recognition code to the Symbian Mobile Platform (Nokia 6630). Technically spoken, this means that visual feature extraction can now be implemented and run on mobile phones. Communication with the server happens via MMS.
For customers this leaves the choice of having either a server-side or client-side system.
