Blinkx – The video equivalent of Google news

Posted on May 7, 2007 at 7:41 pm

Don’t you hate it when you want to watch the latest movie trailer or watch the latest stupid comment by Bush that you heard about from a friend and you have to wade through CNN’s web site to find the video only to find out it’s “premium” content and you can’t view it!!! Well that has certianely been my problem and I just found a web site called Blinkx (that has apparently been around for a while, I’m out of it!) that has not only the largest collection of videos indexed with over 7 million hours of footage, but also gives you the most accurate and USEFUL videos related to your search.

The videos are indexed from just about any site you can think of: Fox News, CNN, Reuters, BBC News, MSNBC, Forbes, BusinessWeek, New York Times, etc. This is great because if you search for something on YouTube, you’re only going to get videos mostly created by users or only short clips from a few sites, but with this site you actually find videos from major news organizations, large Television and cable companies, etc so you know what you are watching is accurate. It’s basically like going to ABC News and watching a video and then going to NBC news and watching another video on the same topic, but all in one place!!!

Another cool feature is that you can embed the videos in your blog, My Space page or web site! You can create what is called a “video wall” with videos are that relvant to the content on your site! It’s pretty cool!

But that’s not the coolest part about this web site!! If you like the quality of the videos off their web site, then you will really like their downloadable desktop application. First off, it’s tiny, so it won’t slow down your computer or hog all of your resources. And secondly, it’s extremely useful! Once installed, you’ll see a set of icons across the top of your IE bar, email window, Word document, etc and clicking on the icons will give you information relevant to what you are browsing, what’s in your email or what you are writing about.

For example, I was just reading an email I recieved from American Airlines and across the top window of my email window, I cliked on News icon and VIOLA, I have the latest news pop up in a window right next to my current email! Now that is cool! And the other icons will light up if Blinkx finds any useful links for those items, such as videos, Wikipedia articles, or audio.

This little program is very cool and I have found myself using it quite often actually! For example, I opened a Word document related to being a Business Analyst and I have clicked on the Wikipedia button at the top of the Word window and there I had a nice list of all the articles on Wikipedia that relate to business analysis, requirements analysis, and other relevant topics. I found the search to be quite accurate because I had previously viewed those articles myself when I was reading about that topic!

Give it shot! Very useful!

[tags]blinkx, video search, watch videos online, video library[/tags]

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July 29th, 2007 at 12:12 am