After reading on TechCrunch that the Qwiki iPad App hit 250,000 downloads after 11 days, I had to check it out.

After installing the app, it used my iPad’s GPS to find topics in my area.  The first Qwiki the was this one about Cypress, Texas.

Qwiki gets public domain data such as Wiki articles and pictures to automatically create a cool video about certain topics.  It is very similar to what Sawbuck is doing for real estate listings.

From the Qwiki About Us page:

Qwiki’s goal is to forever improve the way people experience information.

Whether you’re planning a vacation on the web, evaluating restaurants on your phone, or helping with homework in front of the family Google TV, Qwiki is working to deliver information in a format that’s quintessentially human – via storytelling instead of search.

We are the first to turn information into an experience. We believe that just because data is stored by machines doesn’t mean it should be presented as a machine-readable list. Let’s try harder.