• This Is What Winning Feels Like, Smiling Cigar Guy Edition

    Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More


    Meet “Where’s Smiling Cigar Guy?,“ the breakout meme star of such photos as “Tiger Woods Hits Ball At Photographer” (see below) and such Tumblrs as Smiling Cigar Man | Awesome Face Fan.

    So, imagine how honored we were when we realized after careful study of our photo archives that Smiling Cigar Guy had been both on stage with winners Qwiki at TC Disrupt AND at Social Currency CrunchUp

    And of course there’s a sub-meme, “Smiling Cigar Guy Takes Over The World.”

    Company: Qwiki
    Website: qwiki.com
    Launch Date: October 2009
    Funding: $10.5M

    A “Qwiki” is a short, interactive story: a drastically improved information experience provided via interactive video. Unlike traditional rich media content, all Qwikis are created on the fly from web sources (without any human intervention). Today, our technology produces 3MM+ interactive, narrated Qwikis describing all the topics on Wikipedia - complete with relevant images, video, and structured data imported from linked sources. These Qwikis are embeddable anywhere on the web and compatible with all iOS devices. Via the release...

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