Digital Marketing

BLINKX : Video Indexing

Blinkx!

Thats’s right, now search and tag your videos too. Its not just text anymore, it’s pure technology and innovation speaking.

The world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. Tag them , search them, detect them now, yes, videos, sounds and images running across the website.

Blinkx was founded in 2004 by Suranga Chandratillake with a hugely successful IPO in London in 2007 and currently has a market capitalization of approximately US $ 350 Mn, with headquarters in San Francisco, CA and UK.

Blinkx launched its Video search engine technology innovation in 2005. It boasts over 35 Million hours of video indexed, ready and fully searchable.

Today, it  Powers video search for 3 of the top 5 search providers. And how does a user submit his / her content here.

Step up:

• Go to www.blinkx.com/rssupl
• Load or located at the bottom of the blinkx home page, click on “Submit RSS”.
• When you are there, enter in the URL of your RSS feed and a valid email address. Click “upload and verify feed”.
• It’s as simple as that.

What else is cool: Something small and really cool: The Blinkx Pico:

Blinkx Pico, which is the world’s smallest search engine. Pico is a toolbar that sits at the top of your page and as you work, automatically brings back relevant information to what you are doing from the Web, news, TV and in the full version, your desktop. 

Pure Innovation raw technology:

The 35 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 enabling pure indexing through moving images.

Videos in 3d Without the Glass!

BLINKX 3D

Blinkx goes a step further and blinkx and ExitReality have developed a unique space for viewing and interacting with online video.

Users will be able to:

• Search for, watch and chat about online video in social environments.
• Collect virtual products such as the blinkx Video Wall, which can be customized with videos related to news, sports, entertainment, weather and more.
• The blinkx Video Wall can be used to decorate any 3D space, or given to friends as virtual gifts.
• Take blinkx products, such as flat screen televisions, to decorate their own 3D ExitReality spaces, such as the ExitReality apartments available on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo.
• Invite friends over to watch videos available in blinkx’s index of more than 35 million hours of content.

So blink no more!

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