Video search : Blinkx Blinkx
The NYT ran an article back in late Feb. that we missed about Blinx search service. While they certainly have a nifty flash Wall o’ Video, the idea of looking for cool streams in certainly not new.. btw: what happened to Singing Fish..?!?
The World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can’t find the videos we want or browse for what we might like. That’s a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content of a global television station, just as the Web’s hypertext, once it was organized and tamed by search, became the stuff of a universal library. What we need, says Suranga Chandratillake, a co-founder of Blinkx, a start-up in San Francisco, is a remote control for the Web’s videos, a kind of electronic TV Guide.
Via: Fred Destin
Blinkx Launches Mobile Video Portal
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Windows Live Beta Web Video Search
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Video: Summer sizzle: Temperatures soar, records fall
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The Search
A lonely man's search for the existence of life outside our universe takes a remarkable turn when he connects with a recently bereaved family.
Starring: Matt Berry, Flora Montgomery, Tim Plester
Director: Mark Buchanan
Producers: Colin Bell, Mark Buchanan
Writer: Gregor Barclay
Director of Photography: Jean-Louis Schuller
Editor: Nathan Haines
Production Designer: Elizabeth Schuch
Music: Gregor Barclay, Gavin
Video everywhere at DEMOFall 2007
The DEMOFall 2007 conference had several interesting streaming video offerings and we've clipped some of the highlights from NetWorkWorld's excellent review below. Also see the demo.com video archives Here.
MotionDSP's FixMyMovie.com
Very cool technology that replicates the stuff you see on CSI - crime investigators taking a piece of grainy video and
Dabble Indexed Over 10 Million Web Videos
Dabble.com announced it has indexed more than 10 million videos since launching just eight months ago. Dabble has struck data partnerships video hosts of all sizes, providing access to the Web's available inventory of rich media resources. Dabble's index collects and keeps a record of where videos are located, descriptions
ClipBlast! Unveils Playbox
ClipBlast! took the wraps off this new Playbox, "a detached, cross-platform viewer frame that can play video from sources across the Video Web. This patent-pending technology gives viewers a universal way to search, discover, watch and interact with video, while offering content providers new audiences and new revenue opportunities."
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