Rhythmone PLC (fka BLNKF)

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motley fool older article on blinkx..
Let's go over a few of the disruptors and dig into the public companies that may feel the pinch.

Blinkx
"Over 14 million hours of video," reads the Blinkx tagline. "Search it all."

Sure enough, Blinkx has mastered the art of indexing the growing number of video clips from all of the leading video-sharing sites. Using speech recognition software to transcribe what is being said, Blinkx knows the content on leading sites like MySpace and Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) YouTube better than the websites hosting the clips.

One can argue that the video-sharing sites will become even more popular once clip-culture junkies have better tools to find what they're looking for. That may be true, but hasn't history always given the advantage to the gatekeeper? Just as Google has grown as the launching pad of website searches, won't Blinkx eat into the market share of sites like YouTube and MySpace Video when folks flock to Binkx first? The landscape is changing.