Rhythmone PLC (fka BLNKF)

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message from sobeit on another board..

Irrespective of the price, you can see since the announcement on the 11th that the activity in Blinkx shares has increased substantially. That means it is of interest to the big investors rather than "smalls" like the majority of us.

That interest is obviously based on the basis that Blinkx is now a highly profitable company relative to its turnover and it is piling money up in the bank which means it is an AIM no-brainer.

Not only that, but the announcement yesterday of the deal with Tizen is far more relevant than people might think. This is what was stated: "Blinkx, the Internet Media platform powered by CORE, the world's most advanced video engine, today announced a dedicated blinkx app, as well as an open source blinkx Video Player for the Tizen community".

So, two things, an "app" and an open source video player i.e. a video API for Tizen.

The app will probably be very much along the lines of Blinkx Beat which is already available on Android devices, so as a revenue stream, that is probably already ported and will be generating advertising revenue on Tizen within a short space of time.

The second, the source blinkx Video Player" which gives Tizen developers access to Video through an API which allows speedy and secure development. Note the statement from the Tizen group member who is also a big cheese in Intel that

"The blinkx Video Player is an outstanding addition to the Tizen ecosystem and community," said Christopher Croteau, Tizen Association Board member and Managing Director of Intel's System Software Division. "Developers will be able to access the open source HTML5 code and manufacturers utilizing Tizen will be able to more easily include video in mobile devices."

By implication, that statement would indicate that Blinkx is the de facto video interface and standard for Tizen. Given the backing of Tizen by Intel and Samsung and being far closer to the Linux model than Android (even though it too is a Linux derivative) which to a certain extent is proprietory means that it is far more of a standard for both products.

And given that Tizen is being promoted as the de facto Linux operating system for all those mobile devices including connected TVs this is one very big deal for Blinkx.

The battle for operating systems for mobiles is really hotting up. The following is worth a read: http://www.mobilemag.com/2013/02/27/tizen-firefox-os-ubuntu-competing/

Intresting to note the comment that Firefox OS is "like a cross between Web OS and Chrome OS" when you consider that WebOS was the product that HP owned and sold lock, stock and barrel, to LG earlier this year which proves that HP does not know what its left or right arms are doing. Surely, it would have made more sense to just pass it over to Blinkx given their shareholding?

There will be plenty of Tizen products starting to flow later this year as Samsung gears up and it will be interesting to see how deeply Blinkx is integrated into the OS.