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We have people getting PhD's trying to extract minimal amounts of information out of images; there won't be any automated description writers for them for a few decades at least.

The video search engine Blinkx is based on extracting information from video in order to index it.

> They've already given us the Community Support Officer (the plastic police) which is effectively a policeman with limited powers - and crucially a
> lower salary ..and no fucking clue. Check out this useless prick:

http://www.blinkx.com/video/authority-paranoia-and-photography-in-london/7D_lraoioH_Aus5GHTW0rQ

A foreigner with no apparent knowledge of UK laws but wearing a uniform, assaulting a UK citizen and then accusing HIM of assault, while falsely stating that you can't take photographs in Oxford Street (London's main shopping area, which is NOT subject to any photography restrictions whatsoever).

Welcome to the future of law enforcement in the UK. Ignorant people who cannot join the police, wearing uniforms and taking out their inferiority complexes on people going about their lawful business.

At least they're not engaging in fisticuffs.

like they did around the civil war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks#Sumner_Assault

and again in 1902:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Fistfight.htm

Or like they do in Bolivia:
http://www.blinkx.com/video/fist-fight-in-bolivia-congress/BUTRtHbu7LQxO1wF

And we can at least be glad no one got shot by the vice president.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks#Sumner_Assault

Er... uh... well, rather at least no one was MURDERED by the vice president in this instance.

While Comcast's recent actions threaten to stifle innovation in this space, Netflix and Amazon Unbox will eventually win. Not to mention YouTube. What is interesting is that related industries such as video search engines and content producers like this will flourish.

I'd like to see some statistics on how many people upload videos vs. how many download/watch them.

What do AOL, Yahoo, MSN, and the like snap up to compete?

FileRatings ( http://www.fileratings.com/Video ) lists these as the top sites:

http://www.metacafe.com/
http://www.castpost.com/
http://www.clipshack.com/
http://www.blinkx.com/
http://dailymotion.com/
http://blip.tv/
http://vidoegg.com/
http://www.vimeo.com/
http://www.phanfare.com/
http://vobbo.com/
http://ourmedia.org/

there are more site than just those there are http://www.stickam.com/, http://vsocial.com/, http://www.gofish.com/ http://grouper.comhttp//www.blip.tv/, http://eyespot.com/, http://www.bolt.com/, http://jumpcut.com/, http://ourmedia.org/, http://revver.com/ http://vimeo.com/, http://www.videoegg.com/, http://clipshack.com/, http://www.dailymotion.com/, http://castpost.com/, http://www.blinkx.com/ now what do u say about google video, youtube and the new yahoo one i say there is plent of them ou there for competitions tell us what one you like and if you thnk any of them compair to the three in the artical

...That I've been using is Blinkx, which can be found at http://www.blinkx.com/overview.php. Very slick.

As cool as Google is, I also think Blinx.com's search deserves mentioning. According to their white paper they transcribe video content on the fly, and you can even set up "smart searches" which notifies you when new content matching your search becomes available.

This apparently only applies to video content available on the web, but I guess it could potentially be done with TV content as well. It seems to me like this -- if it works -- is one step ahead of Google's approach.

Normally I file things in a hierarchial method by year and month and by project name (2004file/9sep/) or (2004file/workfile/projectname), but still I lose track now and then and need keywords. Change the "slash" slant to fit your OS.

Windows already HAS a built-in search.

Have you noticed that on older versions of Windows (Win98, for example) the command on the Start Menu is called "Find..."

Now the feature is called "Search..."

Does anyone else find this hilarious? These days even Windows isn't so optimistic about actually finding anything...

BlinkX is kinda cool for those of us trying to "Find" things on your computer now...

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I hope slashdot does a whole article on these guys. maybe they did, but I didn't see it.

That was a cleverly crafted anti-GPL troll. No it wasnt! Another slashdot story about blinkx had a comment from an other user about blinix (an other grate comercial free software product) and how he had pop ups adds when using firefox 9.2 using the mod adblock. Under these considerations my questions were well founded.

Though, it can help you find Slashdot http://us-search.blinkx.com/BlinkxBroadband/?q=lit igious+bastards&x=10&y=6

the e-mail part of blinkx only works with outlook (express) and eudora.

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