--Enters Deals with The History Channel UK, UK National Archives
San Francisco-based video search company, Blinkx (note: the company's service uses voice-recognition technology to generate searchable metadata for broadband video), has made a number of announcements over the past few weeks:
- It has introduced what it calls a "Garage Video Channel" on its blinkx.tv Web site: end-users can select the channel, when searching on blinkx.tv, in order to find and view user-generated content (i.e. "garage video") more easily. In addition, by clicking on Blinkx's "Movie Mode" option, users can play footage in full-screen mode. Blinkx claims to have indexed around a million hours of user-generated video to date (it has indexed a total of 4 million hours of video). "We are excited to introduce the Garage Video Channel and Movie Mode to make it easier for our users to find and watch these unique video clips online in TV-like format," Blinkx founder and CTO, Suranga Chandratillake, said in a prepared statement. "Blinkx is transforming the way people can enjoy video content from their PC's, combining the sit-back-and-watch element of television to the real-time and customizable benefits of watching videos online."
- It has reached a deal with The History Channel UK, under which its search technology will connect end-users to the latter's audio and video content, including audio clips of speeches from Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Albert Einstein and Neil Armstrong, as well as The History Channel UK's video picks of the week. "With increasing numbers of people watching video online, we are keen to make as many of our program clips available as possible on the Web site," Emily Lloyd of The History Channel UK, said in a prepared statement. "Searchability is obviously extremely important and we're happy to be partnering with Blinkx to ensure that more and more people find and view content from The History Channel."
- It has signed an agreement with the UK National Archives that will see it automatically indexing public information films from the latter and making them searchable directly on blinkx.tv. The National Archives is responsible for maintaining records for central government and the law courts. It is currently commemorating the 60th anniversary of the UK's Central Office of Information (COI) by featuring a selection of the most memorable and influential COI public information films from 1945 to 2006. The films cover key events from the UK's post-World War II history.
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