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Ianf [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
16 years ago2,288 views

[...] Kooaba is one of the more interesting [new apps for iPhone]. It uses the relatively new concept of an image driven search. The application will allow you to point the iPhone's camera at a movie poster, and then it will return information and show times on the movie. Although the posters are usually found in the theater, where that information can be found anyway. It is an awesome proof of concept though. [...]"
[ via http://www.iphonebuzz.com/even-more-iphone-applications-surface-102684.php]

... as an aside.... "Kooaba" sounds such a strange name to me, for an app, of any kind. Could we already be there, that all somewhat instinctively-decriptive, or at least widely recognizable, short name-labels are taken, so that fantasy neologisms have to be invented, and/or culled from obscure lit.sources and deployed as unique-app names? Or maybe it simply means something contextual to "gotcha!" in its author's native... Singhalese? ;-))

Ianf [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Silly me, of course should have known that "kooaba" means SOMETHING, if not A LOT, in Schwytzerdeutsch.

A spinoff of ETH Zürich:
http://www.kooaba.com/en/aboutus.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=Kooaba
http://www.google.com/search?q=Schwytzerdeutsch

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