Thursday, January 07, 2010
Say Hello to Hulu
Keep tabs on your favorite Hulu shows. With kikin, you can easily see which episodes and clips are available, and you can watch them all right from your search results page.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
[How To] Use kikin to Plan a Family Dinner
kikin is your secret ingredient to find foods and recipes that your family will love. Start by entering a term like “easy entrees” into your favorite search engine. Inside the kikin player on your search results page you might see a tab from Amazon.com offering you a great price on cookbooks for busy moms and dads:
Or your neighbor and Facebook friend down the street may be raving about that simple casserole they put together with just a few ingredients they had in their freezer. If it’s in their Facebook status and it’s relevant, kikin will display it to you in the kikin player.
You can skip the massive, impersonal recipe sites and get recommendations straight from sources you trust.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
It’s nice to Yelp you
Meet our newest BFF, Yelp!
Quickly see pics, reviews and a map, for your favorite locations in your favorite search engines.
A note to the locals: When in SoHo, be sure to drop-by Bar 89 and check out the restrooms.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Watch the kikin Demo
Check out this cool kikin demo from Molly at DemoGirl.com.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Wikipedia, meet kikin
We just added Wikipedia to the kikin Player. It's super easy to preview content from Wikipedia.com as you’re searching the web. You might even learn something new!
When you’ve found something that sparks your interest, expand the kikin Player to see the full article without leaving the page.
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
kikin Launches iTunes
We released our iTunes experience in kikin for a portion of our users today. (We’ll be rolling this out to everyone soon.)
Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll see:
Music – find songs and albums
Podcasts – discover new and exciting podcasts
Movies – watch trailers from your favorite movies
With one simple click, iTunes will open and you can easily purchase/download any content you wish!
Friday, October 23, 2009
kikin on TechCrunch.com
kikin Personalizes Search By Tapping Into Your Social Graph
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
We are Live!
We're happy to announce we released kikin as a public beta this week! We're excited to open our service to everyone and encourage you to download and try kikin today. Since this is a beta, we ask you to send us your feedback (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) and bear with us as we make our final tweaks.
Try kikin Today!
To get started, just click on the download button in the upper right-hand corner.
Customize kikin
Get the most out of kikin by customizing your settings and connecting to Facebook and Twitter. (This is how you see your friends' status updates and tweets!) With the kikin Player installed, visit kikin.com and click settings in the blue bar or click on the kikin logo in the player (on search pages) and click on settings.
We'd love to hear your thoughts, so let us know!
Monday, October 12, 2009
Welcome to kikin!
At kikin, we see social media (Twitter, Facebook, blogs) and search (Google, Yahoo! and Bing) as the two largest sources of information online. Innovations in both areas have been amazing, from the real-time web and streams to the Bing decision engine. However, even with all this information and innovation, social media and search rarely work together, and certainly not in a personalized way.
what we do
We started kikin because we were frustrated that most Internet experiences did not really take into account who each of us are or what we want. We see one-size-fits all experiences instead of something that is personalized, rich and intelligent.
When searching, why aren’t our personal histories, trusted affiliations and social graphs used to provide us with personalized, rich results? Surely this data would make search results much more useful.
The kikin Player combines your personal history, your social graph and search to produce a personalized, rich Internet experience by giving you content from websites you already know and love. Content from popular sites including Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and eBay combined with powerful search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing is the start of a “killer” experience – and is the experience the kikin Player offers you today.
Over the coming months we believe that many popular content, commerce and service partners will embrace kikin, as will many “experience enhancement” companies, and kikin will bring all of this to you. Please help us by sending us your concerns, suggestions or just plain comments.
try kikin today
We invite you to try the kikin Player today for free and experience what happens when the web is personalized.
