26th
Kannuu
This is a totally new way to search on mobile devices, even if there isn’t a keypad. I’ve seen this and it’s hard to describe in words, even though it is dead simple (in the UI, not necc. the backend indexing), so bear with me. These guys have done extremely well with the press thus far.
It’s like T9, but it’s not like it at all. All you use need is four buttons (typically a toggle) and you select a series of choices and it intuits the rest. They just found a restaurant in San Francisco in about 8 button-clicks.
Mostly partial word completion technology, but its very, very smart. And the really interesting thing is the number of devices it could be used on, from cameras to gaming consoles.
Another example, they just bought “Stairway to Heaven” on Yahoo! music in about 6 button-clicks. Pretty cool.
