Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Once again, where are Blinkx?

Do not adjust your set: a revolution in television as content moves online


Once again, why no mention of Blinkx? The self-proclaimed world's largest and most advanced video search engine and yet nobody has heard of them - not even journalists from national newspapers who, presumably, did at least cursory research before writing that piece...

'However, the BBC's Huggers warned that consumers may find navigating the new world of competing video-on-demand services difficult.

"What is happening is everyone is trying to get in there and that is confusing for consumers," he said.

"And there will be more entrants to come. For the companies in the space there will be a shake-out as scale and critical mass is critical.

"The services that have the right mix of content and strong brand name will see it through."'

And yet Blinkx has a management team that doesn't seem remotely interested in building the brand and actually letting anyone know about the company. Once again: where is the iPhone app? Where is the Facebook app? Where are the apps, products and services that will bring Blinkx to the attention of the hundreds of millions of web users and allow quick and easy monetisation of the Blinkx video index - as well as the B2B strategy which seems to be the company's only idea at the moment?

In short - why are Blinkx management so totally f**king CLUELESS?

Friday, 4 September 2009

First Video Footage Of The New Android Market

"Good news for Android developers: Google has just posted a video of the upcoming refresh for its Android Market, the online store that allows users to download new software to their Android phones. And the changes are very promising..."

Google CEO Eric Schmidt On The Future Of Search: “Connect It Straight To Your Brain”

"This is Part 2 of my series of posts summarizing a fascinating recent hour-long one on one interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt..."





Another Video Site We Don’t Need: AT&T Entertainment

"There is no shortage of places to watch TV shows free on the Web. There’s a glut of them, really. But here comes another: AT&T Entertainment.

What is it? A TV (and movie) portal that looks more or less like every other TV (and movie) portal on the Web: Hulu, TV.com, Sling.com, Fancast, etc.

The only reason for AT&T (T) to launch its own portal now would be as a placeholder until it launches its own “TV Everywhere” play, where subscribers to its “U-Verse” TV service would get Web access to cable shows. That’s the same strategy that Comcast (CMCSA), Time Warner Cable (TWC), Verizon (VZ) and everyone else in the pay TV business is trying..."


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Comment: "Hulu, TV.com, Sling.com, Fancast" - no mention of Blinkx, you'll notice. But thren again, there never is. I have never known a company more incompetent and negligent of its PR effort, of being known...

Thursday, 3 September 2009

Google and Others Fish for Acquisitions: Here’s What They Might Be Looking For

"Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave what he just had to know would be a much quoted comment to the Nikkei today, explicitly saying that the company had “begun seriously looking into acquisitions again.”

Music to the beleaguered mergers and acquisitions market, to be sure, especially after a recent uptick from other big companies pulling out their wallets again as the impact of the econalypse subsides.

According to sources, Google (GOOG) is working on at least a half-dozen acquisition deals, most of which are small start-ups in the online advertising and cloud computing arenas." [my emphasis]



Is There Anything We Won’t Watch? Web Video Booming, but TV Still Growing, Too.

"Plenty of smart folks keep gathering around TV’s grave so that they can throw dirt on it, but it’s not dead yet. In fact, it’s still growing, says Nielsen: More Americans spent more time watching TV this spring than they did a year ago.

The numbers come from Nielsen’s quarterly “Three Screen” report, which measures eyeballs watching video on TV, on the Web and on mobile devices. And just like the report Nielsen put out three months ago, it shows that even while Americans gobble up more online video, they’re still watching as much TV as they ever have. More, even: The number of viewers increased by 0.9 percent, while the time they spent watching TV increased 1.5 percent..."

YouTube May Stream Movie Rentals

"By REUTERS
Published: September 2, 2009

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online video site YouTube is in talks with several major movie studios about renting movies to users by streaming the movies over the Internet according to a person familiar with the talks on Wednesday.

It would mark the first time the world's most popular video site would charge its users to watch videos..."