blinkx Brings More Breaking News to blinkx.tv
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- blinkx, the smartest thing on your
computer, today announced a content agreement with the award-winning news site
washingtonpost.com. blinkx will automatically index hundreds of hours of
breaking news stories and extensive original content from washingtonpost.com
making them fully searchable online at http://www.blinkx.tv.
blinkx.tv uses advanced speech recognition technology to automatically
index and transcribe video making search rapid and efficient. In addition,
blinkx's unique index capabilities allow users to not only find the exact
story they are interested in, but also jump inside the video to the exact
point they are searching for.
"We are excited to be partnering with blinkx," said Caroline Little, CEO
and publisher of the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. "Their technology
helps makes our award winning multimedia content easy to find and readily
available to even more users throughout the United States and around the
world."
"With more and more people turning to the web for news and entertainment,
we are pleased to be partnering with the Washingtonpost.com, a leading source
of news and information," said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CTO of
blinkx. "This agreement also shows our commitment to our users to continue
building a stellar list of content partners."
As a pioneer in video search, blinkx.tv has been gaining rapid momentum
with both users and content providers, adding thousands of hours of video
content to its index every week as well as winning new users from all around
the world. With over a million hours of sports, news and entertainment
programming, blinkx has become the definitive place to find and watch clips
from more than 50 popular content partners.
About blinkx
blinkx, the smartest thing on your computer and on the Web, is changing
the way that people think about search. Only blinkx can harness the desktop,
Web and TV -- unifying content with a one stop search tool. Available to users
on the Web at http://www.blinkx.com and http://www.blinkx.tv as well as free to download,
blinkx automatically and intelligently links to content anywhere and in any
format, on the Web, on the desktop and even on TV. blinkx's conceptual toolbar
means users are no longer limited to keyword search; instead, blinkx assesses
all the information that the user is actively viewing, and automatically
recommends and retrieves relevant content, from local, Web and TV searches,
based on context. In addition, http://www.blinkx.tv makes thousands of hours of TV
content fully searchable and available on demand for the first time. blinkx is
a privately-held company based in San Francisco and London. More information
is available at http://www.blinkx.com.
Press Contacts:
Julia Blystone
Tel: 415-392-8282
Outcast Communications
julia@outcastpr.com
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Related links:
http://www.blinkx.com
http://www.Washingtonpost.com
CONTACT:
Julia Blystone of OutCast Communications,
+1-415-392-8282, or julia@outcastpr.com, for blinkx
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