VIdeo search company SnapStream this week unveiled its new search tool, TV Trends. The new TV Trends utility tallies and graphs mentions of any term uttered on national U.S. television. TV Trends users can enter up to five keywords, and gets back a graph showing you the relative frequency of mentions of those words on […]

Remember PodZinger? They were an early entrant into the “make money with podcasting” scene, with a “speech-to-text” technology (developed by BBN Technologies in about 2006). The idea was to convert, without an expensive (human) transcription service, a podcast audio file into a text file — which, in turn, would help search engines to find the […]

Yahoo! has introduced an new search site, Yahoo! Glue, that promises to “glue together the best content on the web”: We’re starting with a limited set of topics (more will be added over time), pulling together content from the best places on the Web onto one Yahoo! Glueâ„¢ page. These pages are built using an algorithm […]

YouTube has announced updates to its embeddable video player, adding high-quality start images, search, video annotations and Closed Captions.

blinkx announced today that it is the fastest growing video site in the U.S., and also one of the fastest growing online sites in the U.K. According to findings by Compete.com, blinkx is the fastest growing video site among the top 20 video competitors in the U.S. Its traffic grew by 1,036% between July 2007 and […]

Hulu today added a smart feature to its embedded videos: video search: We’ve just released a new feature that lets you search for videos from Hulu players that are embedded on blogs, social networking sites and similar pages on the Web. Your search results will appear directly in the Hulu video screen, and you don’t […]

TimeTube is a mashup that puts YouTube videos on an interactive timeline. Search for any phrase, and TimeTube presents the results on a timeline. You can scale the timeline to show more time or more detail. Timetube also lets you view the results as a list, in Flip Book mode or on a map.