Friday, March 09, 2007

Personalized Web Video Coming to TV

Yesterday I posted (again) about how we need a standard and simple way to organize web video content and deliver it to TVs through cable boxes or DVRs such as TiVo. Just as you can do today with MyYahoo or other RSS readers to save textual content, you could save video feeds or individual pieces of content to your video vault and have it accessible online or on TV.

I ran the idea past Suranga Chandratillake, Founder and CTO of video search engine blinkx. His e-mailed response:

We are look(ing) at exactly that ... I just wish I could tell you more. What you describe will happen soon.

Imagine:

- you log into the blinkx site, set up 'channels' based on topics/searches
- when you go home you can click onto 'channel blinkx' which has these saved searches right in front of you.
- you can then click on those and see content that matches that channel stream, back-to-back.

So coming soon, a personalized TV channel that shows your favorite web content. It will be interesting to see how much of a role ads will play.

Posted By John Gartner at 07:01 PM
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