"Finding TV shows online can be a major hassle. If you can remember which network hosts the show, you then must hunt through a maze of listings of several other television shows on that network’s Web site to find it. The show you want to watch might not even be available since many networks rotate only a handful of recent episodes online at a time. And if you do finally find the correct episode, you may be required to download a special media player to watch it.
Some services make this process a little easier. Hulu holds episodes from 1,200 television shows, but is still missing many. Apple’s (AAPL) iTunes Store offers over 50,000 episodes, but unlike network sites or Hulu, it requires viewers to pay to download and watch them (though they are commercial-free). Video search engines like Truveo browse the entire Web, returning an often-overwhelming number of results. And while YouTube is the king of Web video, it can too easily return a search result that isn’t a complete and genuine episode of the show you’re seeking..."
from All Things Digital
----------
Comment: So that's Blinkx's much-touted index of 35 million hours of video rendered near-worthless at a stroke.
Once again, just about every online video outfit is mentioned in that article. Except one.
Question: why does Blinkx spend so much time and effort developing products and services that it then proceeds to do absolutely nothing with? Transaction Hijacking was supposed to be ready to go before last Christmas (so just about a year ago now) and there's still no sigh of it; there's still no widespread roll-out of SmartShopper nor any (announced) plans for such; Blinkx music looks dead in the water following the announcement of Vevo; Blinkx's video-transcription looks less than cutting-edge now that Google have come up with the same technology; and now they have yet more competition in the 'find-to-view' sector.
Another question: why are Blinkx management so totally, utterly, relentlessly fucking USELESS?
You have no idea how worhtless they really are. The entire company is a shell game for autonomy, most things they put out are half baked, exagerated, or lies.
ReplyDelete