Meghan has sent me this email about the re-design of blinkx. As per the email:
blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, redesigned their website to allow people to unleash their “inner couch potato side” with new Inform Me, Entertain Me, and Give Me Your Own Channel buttons on the Website.  Viewers can now choose which types of videos they want to watch, then sit back and let blinkx show them what they asked for.  From the latest headline news stories about David Beckham’s wish to remain in Milan to funny skateboarding dog videos, blinkx allows you to discover content …read more

\\r\\n\\r\\nHot on the heels of GooTube sharing revenue with embedders of selected YouTube videos through AdSense, video search engine Blinkx unveils a program allowing embedders to put contextual ads in any video from any popular video-sharing site. Appropriately dubbed AdHoc, the program contextualizes ads using Blinkx\\\’s speech recognition technology. By contrast, every other program out there that puts ads in embeds relies on text keywords for contextualization.\\r\\n\\r\\nSignup\\\’s a breeze, setup\\\’s even breezier, and payment\\\’s through PayPal. To demonstrate, I\\\’ve inserted AdHoc in an embed of one of my YouTube videos below. Since AdHoc ads are top rollovers, they should be …read more

Currently, video ad contextualization is achieved through text metadata — i.e., descriptions and tags. Unfortunately, text metadata is highly susceptible to keyword spamming, as anyone who’s ever run a popular search on YouTube can confirm. Video search engine Blinkx plans to use something that’s harder to spam, unless you’re willing to say random irrelevant words in your video: speech recognition.
Blinkx is putting the final touches on a new advertising platform for Web video code-named Project Trilby. When it launches next Monday it will be called blinkx AdHoc. It will offer media companies and video sites a way to …read more