Colleagues/
blinkx [ http://blinkx.com/]: A
Meta-Video Search Engine
blinkx is the world's largest and most advanced video search
engine. Fed by automatic spiders that crawl the web for
audio video content and content partnerships with _over 200
leading content and media companies_, blinkx uses visual
analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich
media content. Users can search for content, create personal
TV channels that automatically splice relevant content
together. blinkx is a privately-held firm, based in San
Francisco and bond and was founded in early 2004 by Suranga
Chandratillake.
[ http://blinkx.com/about
]
***Leading content and media companies***
[ BBC News, CNN, Comedy Channel, YouTube, History Channel,
NYTimes, Other Usual Suspects ]
White Paper
[ http://cdn-99.blinkx.com/store/images/d
ocs/blinkx_TV_White_Paper_v1.0.pdf ]
FAQ
[ http://blinkx.com/faq
]
NYTimes: Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside
Them
[snip]
"Today, owing to the proliferation of large video
files, video accounts for more than 60 percent of the
traffic on the Internet, according to CacheLogic, a company
in Cambridge, England, that sells “media delivery systems”
to Internet service providers. “I imagine that within two
years it will be 98 percent,” says Hui Zhang, a computer
scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh."
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/business/yourm
oney/25slip.html ]
/Gerry
Gerry Mckiernan
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames Ia 50011
gerrymck iastate.edu
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