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traffic rank for blinkx was good again yesturday check it out at alexa.com then type in blinkx.com for traffic rank schrool down page.I think its rank was 1,802 yesturday in the world .
Its 3 mth adverage is about 3,000 thats a surge in hits !
looks like blinkx got alot of hits yesturday more than I have ever seen since I owned this stock..
according to alexa.com
grant are you buying more now or just hold in this terrible mkt?
todays pr indicates more ad revenue for blinkx
Leading News Organization ITN Extends Advertising Deal with blinkx Based on Proven Campaign Success
Wednesday July 2, 3:00 am ET
blinkx Selected to Power Advertising Across ITN Website and Syndication Partner Sites
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that it has won an extension contract that will augment the scope of its advertising partnership with ITN, one of the world’s leading news and multimedia content companies. Under the terms of the new agreement, ITN will use AdHoc, blinkx’s patented contextual advertising platform for online TV and video, to serve advertisements on the ITN website and its syndication partner sites, including Bebo.
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Through AdHoc, ITN has already been effectively monetizing its premium news content on the blinkx.com network for over six months. During this time, ITN achieved a significantly better return, greater search volume, and higher monetization through blinkx than through other syndication partners.
AdHoc uses blinkx’s patented speech-to-text transcription and visual analysis technology to understand video content more thoroughly and effectively than any other service today, and can therefore dynamically place the most pertinent advertising against it. The AdHoc platform offers media companies and advertisers a unique value proposition – video advertising which combines the emotive power of TV promotion, with the relevance and utility of contextual search advertising.
The confluence of ITN’s premium TV content, blinkx’s extensive syndication network, and AdHoc’s uniquely powerful targeting capabilities was a formula for success. By extending its partnership with blinkx, ITN aims to achieve similar returns by leveraging the AdHoc platform to deliver contextually relevant video advertising on its own website and across its distribution partner sites.
“We’re thrilled to be broadening our relationship with ITN,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. “News content is one of the most popular categories of online video and there’s clearly a tremendous opportunity for monetization. The success of our partnership with ITN is evidence that the blinkx AdHoc platform is a uniquely powerful solution for online video advertising today.”
“We’ve been delighted with the results of our partnership with blinkx and are looking forward to implementing the AdHoc technology on our site,” said Nicholas Wheeler, managing director, ITN On. “blinkx AdHoc has proven that it can achieve significant monetization of our content, effective marketing for advertisers and, most importantly, a useful, non-disruptive experience for our audience.”
As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the most effective way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 26 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge – as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to – and even see – the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.
About ITN On
ITN On is part of ITN, one of the world’s leading news and multimedia content companies. ITN On is the UK’s leading supplier of news and other video entertainment content to broadband, mobile phone and radio platforms. ITN On pioneered video news on mobile in Europe, launching with 3 in 2003 and was the first UK company to create made-for-mobile news and weather channels. ITN On’s key business partners include, Vodafone, 3, Orange and T-Mobile as well as established online operators including Yahoo!, MSN, Telegraph Group, Bebo, YouTube and Virgin Media. ITN On’s radio division IRN supplies news to over 250 commercial radio stations throughout the UK with a combined daily audience of 24 million. www.itn.co.uk
seeing blinkx as a media outlet for news on the net.
Google owns youtube and is the largest media company ..
Fox news corp owns myspace .
blinkx is a video search engine with 26 million hours of searchable content and check them out for news on their web site (it updates news every hour )
I just read about the six flags story of a 17 yr. old killed by a coaster in Georgia and did a search for a news broadcast for more info and searched blinkx found it you tube did not find it yet..
its a sad sad story tho.
it seems as tho he jumped 2 fences and tried to retrive his hat and the ride stuck him .
blinkx.com
Hothoused by the UK's most successful search business, Autonomy Corporation, and now valued at £55m on the London Stock Exchange, blinkx is a video search engine.
Conceived at Cambridge University by Suranga Chandratillake and a team of fellow programmers, and developed with $150m of research funding over 12 years, it launched to the public in 2005 and claims to be the largest single source of video on the web, with 26m hours indexed so far.
Like Pixsta, it is not dependent on the text tags applied to video by machines or humans. Its crawlers - the computer programmes that roam the web, indexing pages for search engines - can also listen to what is being said on a video using speech recognition technology. They can recognise over 500 famous faces.
Most importantly, they can "watch" videos to look out for text and detect scene changes. This means that in its summary of search results, blinkx can show a snippet of the footage of Comply Or Die winning this year's Grand National, rather than the talking head in the television studio announcing the news. The user knows immediately whether they've found the right video.
blinkx claims that this technology makes its results more relevant than Yahoo! and AOL's Truveo, which rely on the written labels that surround videos loaded onto a web page. advertisement
blinkx already powers video search for three of the top five search engines, including Ask.com, MSN and parts of the AOL portal. According to measurement firm Hitwise, blinkx has now surpassed Google Video in the UK with weekly market share of visits.
grant absolutley great story and post I needed that lift today...
Two close friends of mine I learned today both have skin cancer 1 with no health care coverage at all.
Does cyber knife do anything with skin cancer/?
blinkx Partners With ON Networks to Distribute Original Programming
Wednesday June 25, 8:00 am ET
Diverse, Original Content Switched ON at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with ON Networks (www.onnetworks.com), a digital media company delivering original, on-demand TV shows. ON Networks’ high-definition video content is now more easily accessible than ever before at www.blinkx.com. Under the terms of the agreement, blinkx will leverage its AdHoc platform to place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with ON Networks.
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Built around the shifts in how TV shows are created, distributed, viewed and monetized, ON Networks actively engages a growing and diversified consumer franchise with innovative programming delivered where, when and how viewers want it. Today, ON Networks offers more than 30 shows across multiple topics, from the history of videogames on “Play Value,” to creative cocktail-mixing with “Cocktails on the Fly.”
“Audiences today have an increasing appetite for new and unique programming that is accessible and available, wherever and whenever they want it,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “We’re excited to partner with ON Networks, a company that is devoted to producing relevant, high-quality programming with today’s viewer in mind.”
“We are committed to delivering our TV shows across premium platforms that allow us to reach, target and engage a range of consumer segments,” said Jen Grogono, chief content officer for ON Networks. “blinkx’s advanced search technology ensures that our content is more easily discoverable to our Web viewers looking for fresh, original programming.”
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM:BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 26 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge – as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to – and even see – the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.
ON Networks, Inc., Original programming for Original people™
ON Networks is a digital media innovator leading the change in how TV programs are created, distributed and consumed. ON engages consumers through original HD series and unique brand experiences that connect viewers to their passions, introducing a world of relevant, smart content that’s accessible wherever, however and whenever viewers choose. Based in Austin, Texas, ON is a privately-held company backed by Accel Partners, Austin Ventures, AT&T and S3 Ventures. See tomorrow’s television today at www.onnetworks.com.
blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake to Present at Piper Jaffray Europe Conference
Tuesday June 24, 8:00 am ET
LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that Founder and CEO Suranga Chandratillake will present at the Piper Jaffray Europe Conference, set to take place at the ANdAZ Hotel in London on Tuesday, June 24. Chandratillake is scheduled to speak at 9:40 a.m. BST.
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blinkx joins companies presenting from the clean tech, health care, consumer, IT and private sectors. Chandratillake’s presentation will focus on blinkx’s unique experience as a pioneer in video search technology. Since its inception, the company has signed more than 350 media partners and indexed over 26 million hours of video content on the Web, fueling its reputation as one of the most intelligent search engines available today.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 26 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge – as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to – and even see – the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.
blinkx news today june 20 2008
blinkx Partners With MEN7 to Bring Viewers the Best in Men’s Lifestyle Content »
20 June 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – JUNE 20, 2008 - blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with MEN7, the first multiplatform lifestyle and entertainment network for affluent men. Launched by Los Angeles-based entertainment studio Bennett Group, MEN7 delivers on-demand, high definition, dynamic television programming to men ages 25 to 54. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with MEN7.
Visitors to blinkx will now be able to find MEN7’s quality men’s lifestyle content at their fingertips. From episodes of “The Great American Race” and “Extremists” for adrenaline junkies to “Billionaire Car Club” and “Bikini Destinations” for aspiring playboys, men everywhere are sure to find something to enjoy.
“Young men are among the most active consumers of online television and there’s a tremendous amount of high quality content available for this demographic now,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “We’re thrilled to serve as a vehicle for making MEN7’s entertaining programming easily searchable and available to our users.”
“One of our goals at MEN7 is to make our content accessible across as many platforms as humanly possible,” said Darryl Mack, director of Internet and Digital Media for MEN.tv. “blinkx has developed a very innovative way for us to expand our reach further than ever before. We’re pleased to have our content on blinkx.”
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
link to blinkx article from thisismoney.co
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=442625&in_page_id=3
blinkx 'good enough to scare Google' »
8 June 2008
By Rob Waugh
Search engines are our gateways to the internet - and can be worth billions to their creators. But since Google crushed its rivals in the late Nineties, there has been a dearth of genuinely new search technologies.
But San Franciscan start-up Blinkx has the right idea: it specialises in video - not Google's strongest suit - and has some sharp technology up its sleeve. Blinkx recently outpaced Google Video in Britain, and shares jumped last month with rumours that Google was eyeing the company for takeover. Blinkx already indexes 26m hours of video and has 350 partners around the world, including Channel 4, the BBC and YouTube.
The site works as a simplifier for web video -bringing you video news, TV shows, niche 'blog TV' and all the usual YouTube insanity direct from one search box.
Rather than searching videos by titles or descriptive text, it converts the soundtrack into text and searches that, too. Blinkx's TV deals deliver up-to-theminute news content: a Blinkx search for Universal Studio fire, current news at the time of writing, brought up fresher videos than search engines such as Google Video and Truveo. Blinkx also scores heavily over its rivals when it comes to British news, especially sport.
For how-tos, trailers, music videos or any other less time-specific content, though, Blinkx is no better than YouTube. It's even less clear that Blinkx is useful for TV shows. BBTV requires a download, works on PCs only and uses copyprotected videos, some of which you have to pay for.
However, you can search for text within video soundtracks, which could be superb with news or documentaries. If you could jump to the moment you want from the Blinkx's front page, the site would be revolutionary.
At the moment, Blinkx feels like two separate creatures. But if they merge, Google should either worry - or reach for the chequebook.
> an April post of this year on ARAY on another board by spider
Patrick Swayze to begin shooting new A&E series
Wednesday June 11, 8:11 am ET
Patrick Swayze to film new A&E series while battling pancreatic cancer
NEW YORK (AP) -- Patrick Swayze is going back to work.
The "Dirty Dancing" actor, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year, will begin shooting his new A&E series "The Beast" in Chicago this summer, the cable network announced Monday.
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A&E ordered 13 episodes of the one-hour drama, which stars Swayze, 55, as an unorthodox FBI agent who trains -- and hazes -- his new partner (portrayed by Travis Fimmel). It is scheduled to premiere early next year.
"I have searched for quite a long time to find a character that is this multi-layered, unpredictable and downright entertaining, as well as a project this current and cutting-edged," Swayze said in a statement.
"There are constant twists and turns, because we never know what this `Charles Barker' is going to do next! Not only is the show driven by plot, but as important, it's character driven," Swayze said.
The actor shot "The Beast" pilot last December, months before his cancer diagnosis surfaced in news reports.
Swayze's representative, Annett Wolf, confirmed to The Associated Press in early March that he was undergoing treatment for pancreatic cancer; meanwhile, his physician Dr. George Fisher issued a hopeful statement, saying Swayze had "a very limited amount of disease" and appeared "to be responding well to treatment."
Wolf declined comment Tuesday. A&E spokesman Dan Silberman said the network wasn't commenting beyond its news release announcing the greenlit series and statement from executive Bob DeBitetto, who professed to be "thrilled to have Patrick on board."
The New York Times reported earlier this week that Swayze will likely continue his treatment during four months of filming in Chicago. In an interview, DeBitetto told the Times that Swayze had benefitted by care including chemotherapy and experimental drugs.
"Obviously we've had candid conversations with him and his doctors, and we have a fairly high degree of expectation that Patrick will be good to work a full production schedule," said DeBitetto, adding, "No one is using words like cured or remission or miracle."
A&E is owned by A&E Television Networks, a joint venture of Hearst Corp., Walt Disney Co. and General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.
GRANT ISN'T IBD who we emailed for a story on ARAY and we got it and what did you think of it ?
Grant whats the reson for sudden drop below $9?
any thoughts
blinkx Connects Communities With Next New Networks’ Targeted Content »
10 June 2008
Find Obama Girl and other popular niche content at www.blinkx.com
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – June 10, 2008 - blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced a partnership with Next New Networks, the leading independent new media company that creates and produces online television networks for targeted communities. Next New Networks boasts a diverse collection of content on over a dozen networks such as Indy Mogul, the network for aspiring filmmakers, and Barely Political, home of the wildly popular Obama Girl. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and will share resulting advertising revenue with Next New Networks.
“Every niche audience deserves a relevant, easily-accessible collection of online video content tailored to its interests,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “We’re thrilled to add Next New Networks’ content to our index, affording our users a better chance at finding more of the things they love.”
“Our aim has always been to make our networks of content available everywhere, across multiple platforms,” said Herb Scannell, Chairman and CEO, Next New Networks. “Our partnership with blinkx provides us with both a wider reach and a fantastic way for people to find the networks we’ve created with their interests in mind.”
As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 26 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge – as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to – and even see – the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.
About Next New Networks
Next New Networks is a new kind of media company, creating and programming online television networks for targeted communities, incorporating the best elements of television and the web. Since its start in March 2007, the company has launched sixteen networks, and its video programming has been viewed over 250 million times via the company's "super-distribution" strategy, which includes formal content partnerships with leading destinations including YouTube, iTunes, MySpace TV, AOL Video, Amazon Unbox, Tivo, Veoh, and Yahoo! Video.
Hit programming from Next New Networks includes Channel Frederator (home of "Internet People" and popular series The Meth Minute 39), Barely Political (the creators of Obama Girl), daily auto news network Fast Lane Daily, and Indy Mogul, a network for the YouTube generation of DIY filmmakers. The company, headquartered in New York, is privately owned, with investors including Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs and Velocity Interactive. For more information, please visit www.nextnewnetworks.com
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Intuitive, Accuray Jockey For Position In Robotics Sector
Friday June 6, 5:33 pm ET
Peter Benesh
It's the battle of the robots.
Intuitive Surgical (NasdaqGS:ISRG - News) and Ac-curay (NasdaqGM:ARAY - News) are both pioneers in robotic technologies to treat cancer and other diseases.
The companies are located just three miles apart in Sunnyvale, Calif. Both were founded in 1999. Both integrate sophisticated imaging with their own science. And both find their systems are used more for treatment of prostate cancer than any other disease.
That's where the similarities end.
Intuitive Surgical's robot is called Da Vinci. With a surgeon at the controls, it performs minimally invasive surgery.
Accuray's CyberKnife uses a tightly focused radiation beam to zap tumors without surgery and without damaging surrounding tissue.
Sliding Shares
The two firms see each other as competitors in the prostate cancer market, and they might overlap in some other cancers. Both also target medical problems the other doesn't.
And both have seen their share prices slide in recent months.
Intuitive's stock neared its 52-week high on April 10 before closing the day at 353.88. Since then, shares have fallen more than 18%, though they've still more than doubled over the past year.
That huge appreciation led some analysts to dub Intuitive the "Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG - News) of medical technology." But for now, the steam seems to have leaked out.
Intuitive's recent stock drop is a function of "natural fluctuations," says Ben Gong, the firm's vice president of finance. "We look at the broader picture and the long term."
The company has seen plenty of growth. Quarterly sales have increased by more than 50% for years, though sales growth is expected to decelerate to 48% this quarter, 42% next quarter and 33% each of the following two quarters.
Intuitive shares "couldn't go perpendicular forever," said Les Funtleyder, an analyst with Miller Tabak and author of the forthcoming book, "Health Care Investing: Profiting from the New World of Pharma, Biotech, and Health Care Services."
"It's now a case of the company growing into its valuation -- like a kid growing into bigger clothes," he added.
Credit Crunched
Accuray hasn't done nearly as well on Wall Street. Its shares went public in February 2007 at 18, leapt immediately to 31, and have been on a pretty steady downtrend ever since. Shares currently trade near 9.
Many of Accuray's prospective customers got hit by the credit crunch, says Chief Executive Euan Thomson. As financing got tighter, they delayed or canceled orders.
The problems occurred at what Thomson calls "entrepreneurial, free-standing centers." These are treatment facilities, established often by physicians or physician groups, outside of hospitals.
The entrepreneurial centers sprang up because many hospitals couldn't find room or money for the CyberKnife. So the centers negotiated prices locally and got paid by the hospitals, many of whose patients were on Medicare.
But uncertainty over how Medicare will decide on reimbursement rates for the centers -- including the CyberKnife machines -- has cast a shadow on the business, experts say.
"Prospective buyers won't know what the reimbursement rate will be until after they buy the equipment," Thomson said.
And with lenders reluctant to take risks, centers have had trouble getting loans. That made a mess of Accuray's order backlog, says Peter Bye, analyst with Jefferies & Co.
Accuray has broken out which orders look solid and which are contingent. About 90% of the contracts cut from the backlog had been from entrepreneurial ventures, Bye noted in a recent report.
Accuray is countering the slump by working harder at overseas sales.
The company has seen robust top-line growth since going public -- sales have grown at least 48% the last four quarters -- but it, like Intuitive, is expected to see growth decelerate in coming quarters. Thomson Reuters analysts project sales growth of 33% this quarter and 14% next quarter.
Battle Lines
Where Accuray and Intuitive intersect -- or perhaps cross swords -- is in the prostate cancer market.
"Intuitive should see us as its chief competitor," Thomson said. "All medical equipment companies compete for procedures."
But Intuitive's Gong says the main direct rival to Da Vinci is radiation therapy. "Most direct competition is in different ways to treat disease."
For Intuitive, prostate cancer accounts for 65% of Da Vinci operations.
Accuray would not say what percentage of CyberKnife procedures treat prostate cancer, though it did say such procedures increased by 80% in the third quarter.
Science has yet to publish data proving which method is best in killing tumors and preserving sexual and other physical functions.
Gong makes the case for Da Vinci. If cancer is encapsulated within the organ, the prescribed treatment is to remove it.
Pathology will tell if the entire tumor was removed, Gong says. "With radiation treatment you don't know until later."
Thomson counters that CyberKnife's cure rate is 90%, so "people focus on the side effects." Surgery can lead to erectile dysfunction, while with CyberKnife there's "no impact" on ED, Thomson says.
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blinkx challenges Google in video ad arena »
10 October 2007
By Editorial Staff
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Online video search service blinkx took on Google with the Wednesday launch of a video advertising platform to challenge one released by the Internet giant a day earlier.
The blinkx AdHoc platform lets people embed ad-laced videos in their websites and then share in advertising revenues in the same way that Google's new AdSense "video units" does.
Blinkx promises website operators half the money taken in from advertising. Google has not disclosed the percentage of revenues going to publishers.
While Google provides the advertising option only with video from YouTube, which it bought last year in a 1.65-billion-dollar stock deal, blinkx offers content from varied sources including YouTube and Paris-based DailyMotion.
Blinkx has deals with more than 200 media companies to distribute copyrighted content and boasts an index of more than 14 million hours of video and audio.
On Monday, San Francisco-based blinkx added French, German and Spanish content to its index to win viewers in Western Europe and wrest the spotlight from YouTube.
"The dramatic growth of online video has been driven by a global audience; individuals who are creating and distributing user-generated content," said blinkx founder and chief executive Suranga Chandratillake.
"We want to reward people for the role they played in sharing and promoting video legally on the web."
Google's "video units" program enables publishers to embed YouTube videos on their websites using a customized player and then make money from overlay text ads that fade in and out as videos play.
The move is Google's initial foray into squeezing money from YouTube and marks the first time the US Internet titan is serving up content along with ads.
In a recent interview, Chandratillake said he is confident YouTube can be dethroned despite being backed by US Internet colossus Google.
"Our background is technology, much more so than many of the other video sites," Chandratillake said.
"YouTube is not really a technology company; it is more of a media and culture company. They are more formidable in a sense now because they are part of what started out as a technology company but what is now an advertising company."
Radian6 Social Media Monitoring Platform Casts Even Wider Video Net With blinkx
Tuesday June 3, 3:00 am ET
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Radian6 announced a content feed partnership with blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine. PR and marketing professionals using the Radian6 social media monitoring platform will now have enhanced access to the industry’s most comprehensive set of the Internet’s top video sharing sites, such as YouTube, Revver, Veoh, Grouper, MetaCafe, Live Video, BrightCove and many more.
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Radian6’s social media monitoring platform tracks what is being said online about brands, organizations and issues in real-time as discovered. The solution monitors all forms of social media, including blog sites, video-sharing sites, opinion review forums, photo-sharing sites and new and emerging channels such as micro-blogging.
“Our customers tell us that online brand monitoring is about more than just tracking blogs. In order to truly track their brands online they have to monitor all major forms of social media,” explained Marcel LeBrun, CEO of Radian6. “Our content partnership with blinkx not only gives our customers unmatched online video coverage but it highlights our commitment to offer the most extensive social media coverage to our users.”
“blinkx provides Radian6 with a clear advantage when it comes to providing extensive video coverage within its social media monitoring platform,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. “Our patented technology searches more deeply, and across a broader video index, than any other solution today.”
LeBrun echoed this approach, “Radian6’s goal is to be the industry’s top social media monitoring platform. We recognize that this can done most effectively by partnering with complimentary best-of-breed players in the social media space.”
About blinkx
blinkx plc (LSE AIM:BLNX) is the world's largest and most advanced video search engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 26 million hours of audio, video, viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand. blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge – as TV and user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to – and even see – the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.
About Radian6 Technologies Inc.
Radian6 provides the social media monitoring platform for PR and advertising professionals. The company’s flexible dashboard enables monitoring all forms of social media with results appearing in real-time as discovered. Various analysis widgets give users the ability to uncover the top influencers as well as which conversations are having an impact online. Visit www.radian6.com for more information
Blinkx says its video search market share 10 times higher than year ago
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LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Blinkx Plc (LSE: BLNX.L - news) . said its market share for video search is now 10 times higher than a year ago, as users increasingly turn to the company to find video content ranging from premium high definition movies and sports, to breaking news and top quality niche content.
bath what do you think of # 1 video search engine Blinkx.com
symbol BLNKF for .50 cents a share more content than yahoo or google for videos and 111 pattens and 350 media partners good things could get better for blinkx if google gets sued for non partnership vids I would like your input on this one thanks in advance
thank you bath are you still inot some plfm shares too and did you invest in ARAY?
WXIFF up over a buck on no news I hope its becoz phase 3 is going well
is patrick swazee using cyber knife>?
Search engine optimisation is what separates the truly successful websites from the also-rans, SEO experts like to claim. But what if your website has lots of video content?
blinkx, a company spun off from UK search specialist Autonomy, has announced blinkx Advanced Media Platform, a suite of software to automate the time-consuming processes involved in indexing, distributing and presenting video content so that it can be easily found by search engines.
blinkx CEO Says IPO Was the Way to Go »
23 May 2008
by Betsy Schiffman
There hasn't been a blockbuster internet IPO in the U.S. -- or even a halfway decent web IPO in the U.S. -- since Google went public in 2004.
Still, Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of blinkx, is one of the lucky few who took an internet company public last year. No, he didn't ring the bell on the New York Stock Exchange -- instead he took his act overseas. He raised roughly $50 million through a public offering on the London Stock Exchange AIM.
We chatted with Chandratillake yesterday, the one-year anniversary of blinkx's IPO, about the pesky acquisition rumors, the advantages of going public, and his take on the economy and the online ad market.
Wired.com: How did you end up going public in London and not the U.S.?
Suranga Chandratillake: [Our banking advisors) recommended how they thought we should raise funding, and the options were to take on venture capital, raise private equity, or a debt-based investment, or to float the company. They said there were a few markets in the world that still support small [public] companies really well. We always assumed an IPO was too expensive and too complex for a company of our size -- it wasn't something we'd seriously considered, but as they described it, it began to sound attractive.
Wired.com: So if you had to do it over again, would you go through with an IPO?
SC: Yeah, I think we would, on reflection. The obvious cons are that it's a lot of work -- not just going through the process but the ongoing responsibility to shareholders, which is more complex than with VCs or private investors. [Through the IPO] we raised the funds we needed and it meant we could share the value of the company with our employees. And I also think it has raised our profile to some extent -- we're based in San Francisco and have less of a presence in the U.K. Now people are more aware of us because we're out there. While [the IPO] was a lot of work, the pros definitely outweigh the cons.
Wired.com: Has it been challenging to recruit people since you're already public or has it been a distraction for existing employees?
SC: I don't think anyone attaches that much meaning to it. There are definitely some people who would rather join a private company with only 10 employees, but we're not that company.
Wired.com: We keep hearing that every startup is for sale right now, and there have been rumors that blinkx is an acquisition target. Is there anything you can comment on?
SC: We're moving along as normal . . . From the point of view of all the speculation, we put out a press release to say we hadn't had any formal bids that we were aware of . . . We inhabit a pretty desirable space, and we offer a very fast growing portion of the search business which is of strategic importance to all the media companies. For that reason, it's not surprising that we see that speculation.
Wired.com: And what do you see coming in the economic pipeline? Marc Andreessen recently predicted a 'nuclear winter' is coming . . .
SC: There are lots of reasons why you can logically argue that [there's going to be a plunge in the U.S. ad market] -- the U.S. economy doesn't look fantastic, and based on that, you can say advertising is probably going to shrink. But we haven't seen any of that. Every single month that we've been in business has been a bigger month than the one before. We haven't seen any of the slowdown that's supposedly happening, and I think one of the reasons is that online advertising is such a fast-growing market, and within that space, video advertising is growing fast.
hey beaners check out stock BLNKF # 1 video search engine trading for only .50 cents it has more searchable content than yahoo or google for videos and has 111 pattens and 39 million in cash and it has been reported their traffic is increasing and they say they should see profit in 2010 and the ceo says it may happen in 2009. blinkX doubles its sales staff to sell more ads .
there is also a BLNKF board on ihub (bookmark it)
http://www.blinkx.com
their web site is www.wexpharma.com it has a video explains it and products and pipeline.
WEX pharma does trade on the pink sheets here in the us under symbol WXIFF easier to buy than WXI.to
for those who don't know wex they are in canada trials phase 3 for a pain killer that is 3,000 times more powerful than morphine and not addictive made from puffer fish.
If You Tube (and Google) are successfully sued this can only help Blinkx. No infringement here.
Hitwise Reports blinkx Traffic is Surging, Video Index Reaches 26 Million Hours of Content
Wednesday May 28, 3:00 am ET
Video Search Marketshare Grew 10x in Last Year, Driven By New Content and Partnerships
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--blinkx, the world’s largest and most advanced video search engine, today announced that its market share for video search is now 10 times higher than a year ago, as users increasingly turn to blinkx to find video content ranging from premium high definition movies and sports, to breaking news and top quality niche content.
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According to Hitwise Intelligence, traffic to blinkx has increased steadily over the past year and its market share of visits for the week ending May 10, 2008 is 10 times higher than the same week in 2007 (May 2008).
In the same period, blinkx has added dozens of new content partners and increasingly powers video search and advertising for other Web sites.
“We’ve had a tremendous year and built out our business in a number of directions,” said Suranga Chandratillake, founder and CEO of blinkx. “It’s clear that there will continue to be great demand for our technology among users, advertisers and content owners who want to take full advantage of the thriving Video Web.”
Video Search Leader: 26 Million Hours of Content, 350 Media Partnerships
In addition, blinkx is announcing new growth milestones: with over 26 million hours of video indexed and partnerships with more than 350 media companies – from the BBC and Channel 5, to CBS and the Weather Channel – blinkx is the most effective video search engine on the Web today.
According to a recent IDC report by Sue Feldman, research vice president, video downloads have become increasingly popular, but accurate Web video search has been difficult to come by. blinkx is an important player in Web video search because unlike traditional Web search engines, blinkx can analyze video content using a variety of clues including visual, text and sound to increase accuracy.
As a pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation as the most effective way to search new forms of online content such as video. With more than 350 partners and 26 million hours of indexed video and audio content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech recognition technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than standard metadata-based keyword searches.
grant I totally trust you on this stock and please let me know when a vote proxy is headed my way and how you vote as will I...
History of Stanford CyberKnife
The original CyberKnife was developed at Stanford, where the first patient was treated in 1994.
The prototype unit was used between 1994 and 2001. The CyberKnife was approved by the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) in 2001, and the first FDA approved CyberKnife was installed at Stanford in October, 2001.
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The 1,000th CyberKnife patient at Stanford was treated in October 2003.
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The 2,000th CyberKnife patient was treated in November 2005.
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The 3,500th CyberKnife patient has undergone CyberKnife treatment in 2007.
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Stanford is widely regarded as the most experienced CyberKnife treatment center in the world.
* Stanford opened its second CyberKnife in October of 2006 (the first institution in the world to have two CyberKnife units in operation
Cash rich, Blink.com has a similar expansion model to the one pioneered by Amazon.com, eBay.com & Autonomy.com that includes forgoing immediate profits to dominate the market place, making it difficult for investors to assess. It has resisted takeovers despite early rumours of Microsoft takeover (in fact any takeover was legally impossible without incurring a $50 million penalty to Autonomy until 23rd May 2008) that pushed shares up 40% on launch then saw them tumble as Automony stock holders who had been given free Blinkx shares on a one-for-one basis sold through 2007.
Tommorow the autonomy penalty is lifted from blinkx shares and could be bought out with no parent fees .
Blinkx will be 1 year old today as a public company,
things could get interesting from here as blinkx issued no news this week and they ususlally do perhaps they are busy talking..
grant or anyone know if cyber knife could be used for Kennedy I just read his tumor is in a difficult spot behind his left ear ??
Also grant you are saying he went to a hospital in which has the cyber knife/?
grant I just emailed IBD hope it helps get the word out WORD..
blinkx earnings are in line with est.
they say they are above schedule in being profitble perhaps next yr 2009 instead of 2010!
when blinkx first started it started with about 7 million hours of searchable content now up to 26 million thats up 8 million hours of content in 6 mths from 18 million hrs ..
blinkx now has 350 media partners and some new products and doubles size of sales team and rumors of talkes with google and news corp and talks of them even getting a listing on NASDAQ..
whats not to like ?
Blinkx 6 mths to March loss $3.2 mln; ahead of plan in move to profitability
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LONDON (Thomson Financial) - UK smallcap Blinkx Plc (LSE: BLNX.L - news) . posted a net loss of $3.2 million for the six months to (Advertisement)
end-March on revenues of $3.6 million, but said it is ahead of plan in its move towards profitability.
Pretax losses in the period came in at $3.45 million. Comparative figures were not given.
The video search engine provider on the internet said content hours have more than tripled since its IPO in May 2007 to 26 million from 7 million, and added that it achieved daily video search run rate of over 5 million per day in March 2008.
Blinkx in focus over Nasdaq
By Peter Garnham and Neil Hume
Published: May 9 2008 03:00 | Last updated: May 9 2008 03:00 by FT.com
Blinkx , the video search group that was spun out of software specialist Autonomy, was the standout small cap feature yesterday.
Its shares jumped 38.9 per cent to 25p as rumours circulated that Blinkx, which yesterday launched its new online video indexing technology, might seek a Nasdaq listing for its shares. Adding to the positive mix for the stock was talk that the company might attract a 60p-a- share bid.