San Francisco and Cambridge, UK-based firm Blinkx claim to have around 35million hours of video indexed - including sites like YouTube and the BBC's iPlayer - using voice-recognition technology to make the videos searchable by their actual content, not just titles and descriptions.
They reported 204% growth in the last year, making them the second fastest growing video platform in the UK behind Facebook.
Video on the mobile web is still in its infancy, with many smartphones, notably the iPhone, not supporting Flash; Flash being a bit rubbish even on many phones that do; many web video providers not offering an alternative to Flash; and HTML5, which should get round the whole thorny problem, still years away from being widely adopted.
But that looks set to change - leading technology firm Cisco recently predicted that almost two thirds of the world's mobile traffic will be video content within the next five years. In the UK, smartphone adoption has shot up 70% in the past year, according to research firm Comscore, meaning the market for mobile video is growing rapidly....
from Metro
You've gone very quiet, where's all the nasty glee that the company is doing 'so badly' now?
ReplyDeleteAnd its all the managements fault?
This has put you in your place a bit - as someone likely never to know how to spot a winner?
why no new news?????????????
ReplyDeleteStunnign results - but the company still nearly 50% below the IPO price.
ReplyDeleteStill, hopefully these latest figures which I'm sure mgmt would have hidden if they could so as not to attract unwelcome attention - will bring the predators out. They can have mien for £150 a share, and fuck 'the next google'...
you said out at 27p
ReplyDeleteActually it was 25p, dummy. And I've changed my mind. I'm waiting for the takeover...
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