spanish Articles

Spanish (español) is a Romance language that originated in Spain. It is also called Castilian (castellano  listen (help·info)) after the particular region of Spain, Castile, where it originated. According to Ethnologue, there are approximately 387 million people speaking Spanish as a native language (mainly using population data from 1995 or before), making it the second most spoken language by number of native speakers after Mandarin. Sources using more current figures estimate up to 420...

Search Engines Use UGC To Improve Video Search

As you likely have heard, Youtube recently a new annotations feature that basically enables video creators to add add background information to a video hosted on Youtube. You can also use the annotations to link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within ...

SpotRunner Raises $51 Million To Go International

Spot Runner, which helps marketers buy TV ad spots on local cable and broadcast using its online service, has raised a big $51 million fourth round from an international group of investors with an eye on expansion beyond the U.S. New investors include UK media ...

Video Search Engine Blinkx Expands International Index

Video search engine, blinkx, has expanded its international news index, by partnering with FRANCE 24, to provide 24-hour French, English and Arabic news programming. Stanislas Leridon, New Media and Internet Director at FRANCE 24 noted, ''This agreement with blinkx fits into our strategy of syndicating ...

New Tool To Add Subtitles To Popular Videos

I just learned about a neat service called Overstream. Basically, Overstream is a service that enables users to add subtitles to popular videos that are found on Youtube or Google. As Ghacks points out, there are 2 great practical applications for this sort of service/tool. ...

blinkx Video Search Expands Supported Languages

San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 17, 2007 - Video search engine, blinkx, has expanded its video search service into Western Europe, offering search capabilities in French, German and Spanish, to make it easier for international audiences to search for online video ...

EveryZing = Video SEO Solution for Media Companies

Roughly 2 weeks ago, I had the pleasure of speaking with Tom Wilde, CEO of EveryZing. I was incredibly impressed both with Tom's expertise regarding the state of online video and general expertise with regards to SEO. In addition, it was enlightening to learn more ...

FREE Camtasia Video Screencast Software

The industry standard screencasting software for the PC is a program called Camtasia Pro. Currently, the most recent version of Camtasia is Camtasia 5. This is a very powerful and robust screen capture software and it is not very cheap. The full retail version is ...

blinkx -18 Billion Hours Indexed, 280% More Searches

I just came across a press release from blinkx today titled, "blinkx Advances Lead in Video Search, Surpasses New Milestone With Over 18 Million Hours of Content and More Than 220 Media Partnerships." It appears at least that this could have been released just prior ...

Video Industry Weekly Recap - 10/19/2007

Userplane Launches 'Feeds' to Provide Collection of APIs Business Wire San Francisco,CA,USA The Truveo Video Search API allows developers to easily integrate a feature-rich video search service into their websites. Blinkx and Ixquick Merge with Goal.com By John Satter In short, the two companies have ...