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hiogi iphone app for mobile answers reaches Top30 in German app store

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

The iphone app of hiogi called “search genius with picture recognition” reached the Top30 in the German app store and lead to an all-time high in questions on the platform yesterday. More…

hiogi iphone app reaches top30

hiogi iphone app reaches top30

hiogi iphone app with reverse picture recognition is nr. 2 under references in Germany

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

The iphone app of hiogi with a reverse picture recognition function reached nr. 2 in the German category “references” among paid apps behind Wolfram Alpha. The community already solved quite a few difficult reverse picture recognition questions as these examples show

hiogi iphone app on spot nr. 2 in the apple app store

hiogi iphone app on spot nr. 2 in the apple app store

For further information and a video tutorial please visit www.hiogi.com/apps

New hiogi iphone app includes reverse image search function

Monday, April 19th, 2010
hiogi iphone app with reverse image search

hiogi iphone app with reverse image search

The newly launched iphone app of hiogi with the name “search genius” includes a reverse image search function, which enables iphone users to send in their pictures with a location and additional information. The hiogi community will immediately start researching based on the image and information provided in the question. This way you can easily take a picture of the tv screen showing a new actress in a soap opera and the hiogi community will answer with the name and bio. Or while on a site seeing trip you could take a picture of an old building, send your location and you will get the name of the architect plus when it was build. The app reached no 2 in the paid-app category “references” in Germany already on day one.

You can watch a video of the German version here or learn more about the English version on www.hiogi.com/apps.

The app was build on web technologies using the development framework phonegap, plus jqtouch and the APNS of Apple to send push notifications. It is also available as a whitelabel solution for customer care initiatives via www.service-community.net

and we will continously improve the app by launchen new versions. Currently the sliding features show slidely slower performances than native apps programmed in objectiv C, however Javascript, html and css with phonegap allows us to create efficient builds for Android and Blackberry aswell.

EXAMPLES:

√ Shoot a picture of your TV and we will tell you the name of the actress …
√ Take a screenshot of your monitor and we will solve the software problem for you …
√ Send us your location and we will let you know where the best parties are nearby …

√ Explain your relationship issues and we will give advice …
√ Add a picture of a building or monument to your sightseeing question and we will provide the historic data …


FEATURES:
√ Enter and send a question (with or without a picture or location).
√ Receive an alert about an answer and read it including all research result and references.
√ Rate an answer and comment on it.
√ Write comments on open questions of others.
√ Browse through the following topics in order to learn from hundreds of answers: Travel advice, Restaurants, Tech stuff, Sports, Insider tipps, hiogi, VIPs, Unbelievable stuff, Geography, Politics, Translations.
√ Search your personal questions or our public archive.
√ Send interesting questions and answers to your friends via email or tweet about it using your twitter account.

reverse image search with hiogi iphone app

reverse image search with hiogi iphone app

Interesting topics to browse through in hiogi iphone application

Interesting topics to browse through in hiogi iphone application

We are live with our new iphone app “search genius”

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

You can now download our new hiogi app for the iphone and please leave a review.

hiogi app for the iphone search genius

hiogi app for the iphone search genius

Let’s show some pre-launch details about our new hiogi iphone app

Friday, April 16th, 2010

This iphone app is capable of even recognizing pictures and motives. Take a picture of an old building while sightseeing or of the menue in a foreign language. The hiogi-Community will find the right answer and information for you. Or, while partying with your friends, send a music taste and your location and we will find the best party location for you nearby. In case you are bored on the bus, this search genius lets you browse through fascinating questions and answers even about love and relationships. Try it and enjoy great knowledge fun and easy searching with the help of a community. DOWNLOAD THE APP IN ITUNES HERE…

Ask a question with the hiogi search genius app for iphones

Ask a question with the hiogi search genius app for iphones

Topics within the hiogi iphone app

Topics within the hiogi iphone app

Wow…

Friday, April 16th, 2010

…are we nervous….

7 hours and 35 minutes to go…

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Stay tuned. More here

Countdown

Friday, April 16th, 2010

13 hours until launch at 0:01 CET 17th April 2010… stay tuned.

hiogi delivers Community SaaS to the well-known German retailer OTTO

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

The hiogi GmbH realized a forum solution for the new Schlafwelt.de brand of OTTO with its new B2B whitelabel SaaS solution www.service-community.net!

About OTTO: The Otto Group is a leading international trading and services corporation, whose 123 major companies and 50,000 employees in 20 countries do business in a worldwide network. A combination of retail, financial services and other services allows the group to serve its customers as a reliable partner.

About the new customer service solution: Visitors of www.schlafwelt.de can ask questions and discuss them online or via mobile. All questions about the right mattress, bedding trends, accessories for the bedroom or about healthy sleep can be placed directly online or via SMS with the text SW “your question …” to 44044 from Germany or +4917688866000 from international SIM cards. The answers are free and are researched by top premium members of the hiogi community. As a special hiogi has realized a very modern forum with a tag cloud for easy navigation, a free widget generator for bloggers and questions on the twitter account www.twitter.com/schlafwelt.

For more information, see http://wissen.schlafwelt.de, www.service-community.net or http://blog.service-community.net or read the press release as a translated version.

Well done Nico! Our new Service-Community website is online

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Our new colleague Nico really did a great job over the last days programming our new website for www.service-communit.net! Big mahalos also go out to the designer Sebastian! Thanks guys.