Saturday the deadline for iPad apps...

...So let's hope Blinxk have got their shit together and have an app ready to run on the iPad...

Also interesting (in that same video) that Mattel have launched a Facebook app. Everyone seems to be getting the idea of the apps economy - except the management at a certain (allegedly) world-leading video search company...

This sums up the fears of many Blinkx holders...

this from 'sikovace' on iii:

"Is anyone else curious about the notable absence of any references to blnx in anything miniweb related?

Yes we had the initial tie up RNS but very little since.I don't see the point of championing other companies and posting up reams of links when they don't mention blnx.
With SC's ability to lose focus and direction I wouldn't be at all suprised to see the miniweb tie up just drift away.

The facts of the matter are that in the past 6 months the sp has dropped by a third having only ever gone up significantly on unfounded rumours.

Lloyds have dumped a big holding as have others over the past year and blnx had to raise funds for an urgent aquisition which never materialised.

Communications have dried up to just a trickle and that trickle is irrelevant tosh that has no bearing on the sp or its' position.

There are more reasons to be concerned about blnx than excited. "

Well it if turns out that the much-vaunted MIniweb deal doesn't actually materialise, I wonder how many there will be then to defend Blinkx management?

Advertising's Future from McCann's Faris Yakob

OFT to examine BBC's Canvas

The Office Fair of Trading is to examine Project Canvas, the BBC's strategic Sky-f*cker next generation set-top box.

The BBC Trust looked at Canvas and decided that its strategic goals of screwing over Murdoch and Branson furthering BBC content were not incompatible with the Trust's charter.

The Beeb argues that complete control of the EPG a common standard is necessary for manufacturers and content companies to grow on-demand TV in the future. This came as something of a surprise to the TV industry's own standards group - the DTG, or Digital TV Group - which is platform agnostic, and has been setting standards since 1995. So far Canvas has won support from a number of manufacturers including Cisco and LG.

Canvas is a secretive project, and Broadcast magazine reports that the BBC stalled the DTG's request for specifications for six months.

The Canvas spec is a Linux set-top box with ethernet I/O, and will run web apps as well as premium TV content. It's variously dubbed "Freeview on steroids" or "the iPlayer in hardware"...

from The Register

Miniweb in the next week?

MANISA, Turkey — Vestel Electronics, Europe’s biggest Brown and White goods manufacturer based in Turkey, proudly announces that Vestel T8300 DVB-T2 Freeview HD set top box (STB) has been certified by Freeview for UK market. Vestel’s Freeview HD box is the world’s first DVB-T2 STB certified by Freeview. Vestel is planning to launch the product in March 2010 and expecting to be the first to market.

Commenting on the T8300 STB, Turan Erdogan, President of Foreign Trade of Vestel said, “We’re extremely pleased to announce the world’s first Freeview HD certified product for UK market. Our Freeview HD box will be available in the market in March-2010. Our DVB-T2 TV development is ongoing and we are expecting to have Vestel DVB-T2 TV certified in a month and launch before world cup. When our products are in production in 2010, we will be ready to launch in other countries in Europe which are already making plans to enable HD services broadcast with DVB-T2 technology.”

Vestel and its UK based digital TV software company Cabot Communications Ltd. have worked together with the BBC, DTG and Freeview as partners to develop and certify T8300 set-top box so that it complies with the latest D-Book 6.1, Freeview HD logo requirements and DVB-T2 standard.

http://www.digitaltvnews.net/content/?p=12644

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Comment: "Vestel is planning to launch the product in March 2010 and expecting to be the first to market. " So they've got about a week left.

Which makes it all the stranger that Lloyds is dumping. Why not wait until Miniweb goes live and provides a much-needed fillip to the Blinxk share price (at least, it bloody well better) and then sell, if that's what they want to do?

Or maybe nothing will move the share price until the next set of figures. And if those figures aren't very good (with NO unpleasant surprises) I don't give much for Chandratillake's chances of surviving the year out as CEO of Blinkx...

Oh dear, how embarrassing...

Blinkx Plc

Holding(s) in Company

RNS Number : 9820I

Blinkx Plc

22 March 2010



TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES

1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:	Blinkx plc
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights		X
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
Other (please specify):
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:	Lloyds Banking Group plc
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):	See Section 9.
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):	19 March 2010
6. Date on which issuer notified:	22 March 2010
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:	Direct / Indirect decreases to below 5%
8. Notified details:

So just after Blinkx have been trying to butter up the City, Lloyds start selling out big-time...

Of course Lloyds may have their own reasons for selling - but it sure doesn't seem like a vote of confidence, does it?

The share price closed down .75p today. Is anything going to get this dogturd of a company to move higher?

I can think of one thing that might - a new CEO...

Facebook obviously not worth bothering with...

From The Sunday Times, 2010-03-21

17% of all time spent online in the US and UK. The second-largest referrer to YouTube after Google itself. Facebook users obviously have a massive appetite for consuming (and sharing?) video.

Yet Blinkx doesn't think it's a good idea to spend a few months of dev time building a Facebook widget using the site's open APIs...