From www.digitalmediawire.com " (San Francisco) Blinkx, a video content Internet search engine,
announced on Monday that it has partnered with Movielink, an
Internet-based video-on-demand joint venture between a number of
Hollywood movie studios, to enable Blinkx.tv users to search, watch
trailers and download films from the Movielink service. Films and TV
content available on Movielink range in price from $1.99 to $4.99
per 24-hour download. San Francisco-based Blinkx's technology
indexes video content using the closed-captioned version of text
derived from the video."
http://www.latimes.com/business
http://www.movielink.com
http://www.blinkx.tv
I tried this and it rocks -- 100% amazing. Likely to really spurn Google into beefing up their video search efforts .... and of course ... MUSIC. On that note try GoFish.com So now DISTRIBUTION is soon to be replaced by searching, and then - Search / browse is replaced by Recommending -- after all, who can browse thru 10 Million songs. Look for playlist engines, and recommendation technologies to be one of the next hot things. Online music take 2.
It was about time recommendation systems would filter and trickle down into individual playlist/track sales online yeah. Its a proven mechanism with Amazon. I can even see it working for the so called 'long tail', all those little niche markets with their own 'portal' or search/recommendation sites with known and trusted community members.
Total integration of social software with search technology and digital content. Yay!
Posted by: John | March 01, 2005 at 04:11 PM