Users on the Blinkx network can now search the company’s archive of more than 15,000 podcasts and video blogs and download content with just one click of the mouse.
Content on downloaded “channels,” which includes both professional as well as amateur fare from adult and mainstream sources, also can be bookmarked so that updated video and audio feeds are downloaded automatically as they become available.
According to Suranga Chandratillake, CTO and founder of Blinkx, the service handles all of the necessary formatting for compatibility with iPod Video and other mobile devices.
“We wanted to make the experience of finding compelling multimedia and making it portable as efficient and easy as possible,” Chandratillake said.
Aside from keyword searching, Blinkx’ engine uses proprietary voice-recognition software to search multimedia files online, which Chandratillake said has become more accurate that similar search services offered by Yahoo, MSN or Google.
Aside from partnerships with major content players like CNN and Fox News, Blinkx also has entered into agreements with adult video-on-demand producers.
As reported in XBiz in October, the company entered into an agreement with Akimbo, the broadband-enabled television service with digital-quality adult VOD, that enabled Blinkx users to search an indexed Akimbo program database and send programs to their Akimbo Systems for later viewing.
Under the agreement, Blinkx indexed Akimbo's video database, allowing users of its website to find and send the programs they want to their Akimbo Player or any Microsoft Windows Media Center 2005 with just a click of their mouse.
