Post and video by Miiko Mentz Bubblicious Reporter Alison McNeill recently presented Bubby awards to five winners at Twiistup 5, which was held at Hangar:8 at the Santa Monica airport. On Friday, we posted our highlight reel of the Bubby Award winners and this week we’re posting one interview ...

Video search engine Truveo has released an updated version of its  iPhone application, Beet.TV has learned. The application, first launched in July, allows users to access videos in Apple-friendly formats from major sites including CNN, NBC, HBO, The Discovery Channel, and YouTube. In November, I i...

One of my hopes for 2009 is that we'll see greater innovation in the social media search space - both free and premium. I have a bunch that I am trying out now: SM2, Zuula, Blogscope.net and Wikio and others. What follows is a first look at a new site called WhosTalkin that launched its public beta ...

Video search company Blinkx announced tonight a “red-label” search product — which basically sounds like it’s making a self-service version of its white-label deals. The company will give free access to its search engine for sites with fewer than 10,000 searches per day, and ...

It's about time. Google's finally starting to use speech recognition for video search. I still don't know why it hasn't just acquired Blinkx and owned the market. Compared to YouTube, Blinkx would be a bargain, and they could monetize it better. Anyway, the rollout could hardly be more limited. It's...

Google is rolling out a new service that should be interesting. It's a video search tool that parses the text of political speeches and makes it searchable. Here is the link to the announcement on Google's blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-their-own-words-political-videos.html Here is ...

Apparently searching video is really hard, as market leader Truveo today declared a competition to help it find new video search applications. And the prize? $100,000 in cold, hard cash. The problem with video search is not just difficult technology, but usage habits — or more specifically, th...

Seth Godin recently pointed his blog readers to TimeTube, a YouTube/Dipity mashup: This is brilliant! Perhaps not helpful for every video search you’d ever run, but many searches would be aided by this sort of results display. Google’s already testing a timeline-based search results syst...

Click To Play play_blip_movie_806747(); For videos to be successfully found through search, they need to build a following first, says  Pete Kocks, the president of Truveo, the San Francisco-based video search unit of AOL. Similar in the way that text search engines track to the popularity of p...

White hat SEO experts of the world, you have a new spokesperson. A rapper named The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) has posted a 3-minute slice of brilliance -- a lesson in accessible and standards-based web design that's sure to increase your PageRank. Sample lyrics: "Please don't use tabl...