Recently there's been an explosion of new developments related to finding and using visual and audio resources on the Web. Multimedia is definitely hot. While there have been some fee-based services that monitor and provide clips of television programming for corporations, such as ShadowTV and Critical TV, we're seeing considerable activity in providing free access to multimedia content on the Web. blinkx TV is a fairly new beta service that offers free searching of TV and radio content. blinkx creates its indexes from both Web-based video content and direct video feeds, using its proprietary technology to create a searchable transcript. Users actually access a pop-up window with the video playing.
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