Waltham, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - June 29, 2007 - Lycos search and destination portal, has integrated the blinkx video search on its music Mix platform. The solution was developed, in order to allow faster video search, along with a new widget that embeds the video playlists on supported websites and blogs.
When users visit the video entertainment content website,Lycos MIX, users may create video playlists, search for and view video results powered by blinkx within MIX, without leaving the website. With blinkx video search, MIX creators may type in video selections, after which blinkx pulls video clips from a variety of different sources across the web, presenting video search results all in one place on MIX.
Eric Austrew, product manager with Lycos Labs remarked, ''We're thrilled with the response to Lycos MIX, so we've made it even easier to create a video MIX. We've eliminated the need to copy and paste video URLs, and most important, users don't need to leave the site every time they want to add a video. Additionally, blinkx provides our users with some of the highest quality video tools available on the web, to quickly find, view, organize and share all types of online video content.''\
Suranga Chandratillake, Founder of blinkx commented, ''We are very excited to extend our partnership with Lycos, one of the top 12 web properties worldwide, to power video search on the very innovative Lycos MIX platform. Through blinkx's technology that includes speech-to-text transcription and visual analysis, we're able to deliver multiple relevant video search results efficiently, allowing Lycos users to immediately embed video clips into the MIXes they create.''
Lycos MIX, developed internally by the Lycos Labs product team, made its debut earlier this year as a tool for users to create an amalgamation of video content to share with other users. MIX visitors also participate in the MIX by viewing, commenting and adding more video clips to the MIX. Since its launch in February, thousands of video playlists, ranging from rap videos to Japanese cartoons, have been created on Lycos MIX. Earlier this month, Lycos also launched the MIX widget, allowing Tripod and Angelfire members to easily embed their MIXes onto Tripod and Angelfire blogs and sites. Similar to other popular video sites, the ratio of active MIX creators vs. passive MIX viewers is heavily skewed towards the viewers, with 99% of visitors coming to the site to watch MIX videos, and 1% of users actively making MIXes.
Lycos first introduced its proprietary ''Watch and Chat'' technology in Nov. 2006, with the launch of Lycos Cinema (http://cinema.lycos.com/), the Internet's premiere video-based socialization product allowing multiple users to watch simultaneously and chat about video content in real-time. Since then, Lycos MIX (mix.lycos.com/) took Watch & Chat to another level, allowing groups of people to pull video clips from different sources across the web to create playlists of content, to watch and share and chat with others in the MIX.
Lycos first teamed with blinkx in August 2006 to power video search across the Lycos Network, giving Lycos's millions of users search results from blinkx's index of more than 12 million hours of searchable video content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries, viral videos, music videos, and video blogs, among others.
Lycos, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications Corp., an Internet portal and e-commerce destination in Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian markets. Lycos, Inc. creates and operates search, community and technology lifestyle sites including Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Wired.com, Tripod.com and Angelfire.com. Other Lycos products and sites include Lycos Mail, Lycos Games, Lycos Planet, Lycos Phone and GetRelevant. Lycos was acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum Communications Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ: 035720.
For more information about Lycos, please visit: www.lycos.com.
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