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By: GigaOM » Blinkx, finally serves its purpose

GigaOM » Blinkx, finally serves its purpose — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:07:13 +0000

[...] It was three years ago – June 17, 2004, I first met with Blinkx, a toddler of a start-up, showing off a tiny little downloadable software that added context to search – be it on your desktop or on the web. To say the least, I was suitably impressed. [...]

By: David Kaspar

David Kaspar — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I hear you Steve and Otis and even despite my little experience in professional researching, your points seem very valid for a professional researcher.

I however think that _Blinkx_ are trying to reach the mass market. Users like me and my mom that have realised the power of Google and are utilising it well. We are now ready for the next step in information delivery and if Blinkx can package that nicely I think they have a success on their hands.

With time, the tool may become more advanced and maybe even useful to hard core information miners. But as pointed out, limited resource such as a small start up normally has, limits you from doing everything for everybody in version 0.9.

Now I just need to find the time to actually try out Blinkx and see if it is any useful.

By: Marivi Lerdo

Marivi Lerdo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, Om…I’m doing great. Working at OnPR, a public relations firm with three tech specialty areas: wireless, enterprise software and consumer tech… I’ve also just had a baby girl! Let’s catch up soon…

By: Rick Gregory

Rick Gregory — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dammit Om, I’m supposed to be working, not playing with this very cool new toy!! Sure there are issues, but this is VERY nice. I can see using this constantly writing research reports and doing research online. It’s almost enough to get me to switch back to IE as my main browser…

By: Om

Om — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

rick – my sentiments exactly. this is pretty addictive and cannot wait for the mac version to show up. by the way it works equally well with all other browsers – at least on firefox it does.

By: Rick Gregory

Rick Gregory — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Om – it works on Firefox?? Oooh, even cooler. I don’t get the little Blinkx controls that I see in IE, but I’ll talk to them about that. Thanks for the tip!

MUST… QUIT… PLAYING…..

By: Vish

Vish — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Om, curious to know why you think they have no model … after all, Google et. al. are making a killing on search.

By: Jonathan Greene

Jonathan Greene — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

need … mac … support…..

Looks very cool.

By: Om

Om — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i think with google you can deliver tons of those damn text ads on the side of search results. the way their client works there is only one place to sell an ad. i am not particularly fond of the ad-model. unless you have scale, which google has, it is difficult to make a business. trust me i have tried it many times, and it does not work. so that is why. what i would like to see – ‘blinkXbox’ for contextual document search inside large corporations as a sideline. basically they need to build an API where you could interface, corporate database, web, news sources such as lexis nexis and your hard drive into one sweet simple interface application.

By: Om

Om — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

they told me that the MAC version is currently under development but because they are a smallish company, resources are always an issue. i understand and am willing to wait for them. as i said, they need an API which would lets say let guys who make Watson or Sherlock (apple??) plug into this. sweet and easy baby