By Alex Castro
Delve Networks
Web video has never been more popular, as evidenced by the fact that over 11.2 billion online videos were viewed in the United States in March of 2008, according to ComScore Video Metrix. Yet, you have to wonder if the current video platforms have kept up with demand—both on the [...]
The longer you keep the user around, the more opportunities you have to monetize, if your advertising approach is sophisticated enough to take advantage of that engagement.
Yesterday, Pluggd and CNet unveiled our HearHere search capability over a sampling of popular ZDnet shows.
It’s exciting, because this is the first time people are able to search within media using a heatmap experience.
Before this, users had two choices: full meal deal or get up from the table.
Now they can find and snack on the [...]
We’re excited to be mentioned in a story in the Economist today about
speech recognition. The article does a good job of surveying the space, but
what really makes Pluggd different (and speech reco useful for video search)
is the chunking technology we’ve developed (read more about chunks).
It’s great to see the company getting highlighted this way in [...]
We got some questions about what these chunk-things are after my last post. Some folks asked how this is different from just searching for the utterance of a word in video. It’s quite a bit different. Matt Marshall at Venture Beat did a good job describing how Pluggd works in this post (http://venturebeat.com/2006/12/06/pluggd-perfects-audio-and-video-search-raises-165m/) after [...]
Google’s uber search across text, images and now video has a lot of people talking, including the New York Times. But the enthusiasm ignores how people really use search.
Searching includes not only finding results, but also figuring out which results you want. Google’s text search does a good job of highlighting a web page to [...]
Today, Pluggd was awarded with a spot on the AlwaysOn Media Top 100 list. This is an awesome honor!!! Here’s a little bit about the list:
AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. Pluggd was handpicked by the AO Media editorial team based on a set [...]
Alex Castro and Cornelius Willis were hanging out with the folks over at Wired today.
They answered some reader questions, check it out!
If you have any questions that weren’t answered you can always hit us up at support (at) pluggd.com
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Yep, check it out y’all. New episodes of the ESPN Sportscenter podcast are searchable using the Pluggd “HearHere” technology. This badboy is going to be available sitewide so soon it keeps me awake at night thinking about all of the podcasts I’ll be searching through.
Like the Patriots? Fire up the [...]
Pluggd’s HearHere allows people to jump to the exact position in audio or video, such as podcasts and video casts, where there is something they want to hear. People have come to expect this instant return with web pages, but up until now audio and video have failed to deliver the same searchability. Now, you [...]