By andihong on January 17, 2010
“Let’s make movies!” exclaims fictional stuntwoman Rayleen Gibson, a character played by Tracey Ullman in the award winning HBO comedy series “Tracey Takes On” carried on cable television several years ago. It was Rayleen’s signature parting-shot signoff line. The exaggerated way she barked it — similar to a ship’s captain to the crew — added to the show’s humor.
If a vision of “Let’s make movies!” is flashing on the silver screen of your mind, this article may be just the ticket to get you into a front row seat at the show.
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By andihong on December 25, 2009
Blinkx.com is an Internet based search engine for video, audio, and other multimedia content. It was founded by Suranga Chandratillake, a former Autonomy employee. Blinkx started its operations in 2003, based in San Francisco, as video search and toolbar for web search, which allows searching and organization/classification of audio and video clips as well as other streaming media. Blinkx’s technology is unique in that it uses speech recognition to analyze the audio inside of the video, and then use the text and phonetic text transcripts in order to match videos to the search term submitted. Blinkx touts itself as the largest Video search and video sharing site. Blinkx has over 12 million hours of indexed video content and more than 130 contracts and agreements in place with video content providers.
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