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blinkx's commitment to innovation is reflected in the ground-breaking, sophisticated, user-orientated products which it has regularly released since the company launched and which includes blinkx Remote, blinkx it, blinkx Pico, and the blinkx Video Wall.
blinkx takes a holistic approach to video search: the power of its solution lies in using every characteristic of the video itself to understand the content. For example, blinkx listens to the sound track using speech-to-text technology, looks at the images on screen using advanced video analytics, and reads other information embedded into the file by using media-analysis plug-ins to extract, for example, closed captioning. In this way, blinkx is processing as much information as possible to enable both extremely accurate search, and more advanced operations such as automatic hyperlinking of related content or implicit query, which understands the content a user is producing and viewing.
blinkx's unique, patented and award-winning video and audio analysis technology, which literally watches and listens to rich media content online, has enabled it to build a massively detailed, objective and scalable index. blinkx's index of over 26 million hours of video is searchable to a much deeper degree than the weak, manually-created, metadata-based approaches to video search of the past.
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blinkx.com
At blinkx.com, users can search over 26 million hours of video content, from 350 of blinkx's media partners (a list that includes a broad range of providers - from HBO and MTV to PBS and YouTube). Through its unique, patented and award-winning video and audio analysis technology, blinkx's software literally watches and listens to rich media online, providing users with unparalleled access to more video from more sources than any other site on the Web - all searchable through a single gateway. Whether a user wants to catch up on the news, watch home movie stunts, replay their local team's highlights or watch a missed episode of a prime time TV show, blinkx is the essential remote control with which to navigate the Video Web.
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Search through 26 million hours of video at blinkx.com
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blinkx AdHoc
AdHoc is the first contextual advertising platform for online video, designed to enable blinkx’s media partners to place highly relevant advertising against their video content on the Web. Click here for a PDF overview of the blinkx AdHoc platform.
Just as Google’s AdSense transformed advertising on the Text Web, blinkx’s AdHoc platform will revolutionize video advertising by matching compelling, customized, TV-style ads to audiences on the Video Web.
The AdHoc platform is unique because it was built from the ground up to address rich media, resulting in more effective marketing for advertisers, higher monetization for content owners, and, most importantly, a useful, non-disruptive experience for users.
Unlike other solutions that merely cobble together technology designed for Text Web banner advertising and apply it to the entirely new medium of the Video Web, AdHoc leverages blinkx’s patented speech-to-text transcription and visual analysis technology to understand video content more thoroughly and effectively than any other service today, and can therefore dynamically place the most pertinent advertising against it.
Online video presents an extremely attractive opportunity for advertisers and media companies: targeted distribution with the potential for immediate action, and the availability of real-time metrics to assess the effectiveness of a given campaign.
blinkx’s AdHoc platform offers content partners and advertisers a unique value proposition — video advertising which combines the emotive power of TV promotion, with the relevance and utility of contextual search advertising. This is an exciting prospect, not only in terms of enhancing viewer experience, but also in increasing the effectiveness of campaigns.
In addition to its unrivalled relevance, the AdHoc platform offers media companies and advertisers the most flexible solution for customizing the timing and appearance of video ads, with options that include pre-, post- and mid-roll placement, as well as dynamically-selected banners, in-video mini-banners and a unique, post-roll catalog view. Partners can even select which ad databases to leverage – their own, the blinkx AdHoc platform, or even external ad systems, such as Google’s AdWords.
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blinkx AdHoc delivers ads for relevant products and services while you watch videos
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blinkx Advanced Media Platform
For publishers with video content, the blinkx Advanced Media Platform solves many of the problems inherent in processing video and enables them capitalize on their assets. Unlike text-based technologies, blinkx was built from the ground up to process video and our ability to automate previously expensive and time-consuming manual tasks across the Video Lifecycle - from locating and processing both online and offline content and indexing it, to its presentation, monetization, and delivery - harnesses the tremendous potential of rich media content.
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blinkx Remote
blinkx Remote is a revolutionary tool for finding full-length TV episodes on the Web. blinkx Remote leverages blinkx's unique speech-to-text transcription and indexing technology to quickly identify full-length TV shows by season and episode. It simultaneously corroborates search results with information from trusted online sources, including Wikipedia and IMDB.com, to provide users with the most accurate TV search results available anywhere.
Users simply enter a search for a TV show at blinkx.com, ‘Lost’ or ‘24’ or ‘Desperate Housewives’, for example, and blinkx Remote will recognize the title and deliver accurate results from across the Web, prioritizing the full-length versions of the program over short clips. blinkx Remote can even retrieve available episodes from particular seasons, if specified. Users can then watch the episode online, download it from sites including Amazon and iTunes, even send it to their TiVo, based on availability.
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Find and watch television online using blinkx Remote
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blinkx it
blinkx it is an award-winning video widget that enables users to integrate video into their own sites with just a few clicks. This free and simple tool allows bloggers and casual website builders to enhance their personal blogs, websites, or MySpace pages with relevant video streams.
blinkx it is easy to install. Users just go to blinkx it and embed the code straight into their blog, either as a drop-down menu, or as a Video Wall. Once in place, blinkx it draws on more than 26 million hours of audio and video in the blinkx index, making it easy to add pizzazz and highly-customized video channels to any blog post or website.
» Add blinkx it's video stream to your website
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blinkx it adds relevant video clips to your blog or website content
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blinkx Video Wall
The blinkx Video Wall is a tool which allows bloggers and website creators to embed a video wall of clips from a selected search term into their sites. The display is fed by RSS, so it updates automatically as new search results come in. Users can choose the size of their desired wall, composing it with anywhere from one to sixty-four glimmering video screens. Users can even compile a specific selection of videos to be made into a video wall and embed it to their pages with ease.
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Embed blinkx's dynamic, eye-catching Video Wall onto your blog or web page
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Pico
Pico, the world's smallest search engine, is a free 1MB download available from blinkx. Pico is an entirely new way to navigate the next-generation Internet.
Today, searching the Web is a disruptive experience - users are forced to interrupt the activity they have at hand, go to a search engine, enter a search and examine the results for relevant material. Pico revolutionizes the search process, by bringing relevant information to users, and organizing it for them, proactively and automatically. Pico does the searching for you, constantly updating its query, based on what's on your screen at any point in time.
Pico appears as an unobtrusive series of channels at the top of your desktop, each representing a different type of content: news, blogs, video, Web, Wikipedia, images, shopping, and "people", which retrieves information from online communities, including MySpace.
As you work, Pico reads your active screen, infers the meaning of what you're looking at based on context, and then dynamically retrieves relevant information from across the Web, including next-generation Web content, such as blogs and rich media. It works invisibly, so that you only see the results of its search if you click on a relevant channel.
Pico also allows you to easily create Smart Folders based on the content that is active on your screen. With Pico, you can save what you are reading or writing as a search and blinkx will automatically populate a Smart Folder on your desktop with related content. In addition, you will benefit from a feature called Pico View, which unifies the results of all six Pico channels in a single pane.
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Pico reads your page content and returns contextually relevant video and page results
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Video Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Guidelines
Built from the ground up for the Video Web, blinkx has gleaned significant insights and created a number of internal best practices on the art and science of optimizing video content on the Web; it offers a whitepaper of guidelines to help advertisers, marketers and content owners maximize traffic to online video.
blinkx's goal for its Video Search Engine Optimization guidelines is to provide clear and thorough recommendations on how to maximize results for your video content. The whitepaper covers contains practical and technical tips including:
- Cleaning and conversion of metadata
- Optimizing titles, description and filenames
- Leveraging sitemaps
- Utilizing Media RSS
- Content Management
- Where to submit
- What to Avoid
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blinkx beat
Download our free screensaver and watch the top videos directly from your desktop with blinkx’s interactive bulletin!
Want to stay up-to-date on the latest sports and entertainment breaking news headlines from around the world but don’t have time to “tune in”? You can finally stop refreshing those news sites - tap into the pulse of the day with the blinkx beat screensaver and desktop application.
get more information about blinkx beat.
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Keep up to date with blinkx beat, the interactive bulletin
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blinkx BBTV
blinkx Broadband TV (BBTV) brings a new kind of online television: full-screen, TV-quality and truly immersed in the Internet. By fusing TV and other video with the Web, BBTV can link what you’re watching with relevant information on the Internet - learn about who’s on-screen, what’s being said and more. It’s the ultimate browsing experience with TV content - and it’s effortless.
Take BBTV for a spin. Add another dimension to your TV experience - the possibilities are limitless.
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The blinkx BBTV player and menu interface
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