Thursday, July 21, 2005
Blinkx Gives Users Their RSS TV
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 03:00 PM
"San Francisco-based startup Blinkx has announced its multimedia search engine will be able to notify users whenever it indexes content that matches a term the users previously searched for. The RSS alert system, called SmartFeed, is expected to go live on Blinkx's Web site on Tuesday. After users enter a search term on Blinkx TV, they will get the option of setting up an RSS alert for it. Blinkx TV delivers the alerts to the user's Really Simple Syndication aggregator service as text links to the multimedia content. Users can opt to receive content alerts for any search term from all or some of Blinkx TV's more than 30 audio and video channels, which include BBC News, Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg Television, NBC, MSNBC News, ABC, and ESPN, said Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx's co-founder."
Blinx TV has been making strides in the media field for some time now. In addition to indexing multimedia content from commercial providers, Blinkx TV also serves up amateur audio and video collected from the Web at large, as well as podcasts. Blinkx also plans to make available the application programming interface for SmartFeed so that developers can incorporate it into their own Web sites and software.
Blinx TV has been making strides in the media field for some time now. In addition to indexing multimedia content from commercial providers, Blinkx TV also serves up amateur audio and video collected from the Web at large, as well as podcasts. Blinkx also plans to make available the application programming interface for SmartFeed so that developers can incorporate it into their own Web sites and software.
