A lot to prove...

Blinkx creates rich catalog of web video

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/01/12/story14.html

"Chandratillake says it could be profitable today, but has focused on spending for growth." I wonder if the figures on Tuesday will demonstrate that? For the sake of Chandratillake's credibility I certainly hope so...

Results next Tuesday

...and I hope for the sake of Blinkx management that they're good...

Blinkx does deal with BBC?

"—Blinkx: The London- and San Francisco-based video aggregator has done a deal to start indexing the BBC’s video content. Blinkx’s search results now include video packages from the BBC News site. At the same time, the company has got deals to index CBS (NYSE: CBS) and Weather Channel videos. Release."

from paidContent.co.uk

er, I rather imagined that Blinkx were already indexing BBC video content, since it has been available through their site for so long?

Ex-minister urges short-selling ban

"LABOUR MP Frank Field will launch a private-member’s bill tomorrow to ban the short-selling of shares.

It would also require pension-fund trustees to disclose whether shares they control have been lent to short-sellers.

Field’s move reflects a head of steam building up in parliament against short-sellers. So far 34 Labour MPs have signed up to his accompanying early-day motion backing the ban on short-selling. "

from Times Online.

I like to think I did my bit to build consensus with my letter to John McFall MP (and his response).

Surge in demand for online video

"British demand for online video sites has shot up over the past year, according to a new report.

Written by research firm Hitwise it found that UK internet traffic to video websites was up 40.7%.

YouTube is the most popular destination, followed by the BBC iPlayer and Google Video.

UK traffic to iPlayer has increased by 152.1% over the last 12 months, peaking over Christmas 2008, and is now the 22nd most visited UK website."

from The BBC

Reply from WPP

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Does rather put paid to the view - expressed in some quartters - that these letters I write go straight into the bin.

This is about what I expected: after all, they're hardly likely to write back and say "Good idea! We're accumulating stock as I write".

But who knows - if one person at WPP reads it so may others...