Little Miss Media Anyone
June 17, 2008
I been drinking too much of that 1.25€ a bottle French rose in the Fringe villa when I wrote this post and so I though you’d all like a little pist Fringe click grabbing headline to introduce our favorite Miss Media. So here’s Jess from Contagious Magazine who popped in to make a rare appearance on Cannes Fringe (we need to see you more Miss Media Penny…anyway) and she tells us what’s up and new, and what’s behind this years Titanium Lion and a few tips on the nights winners. Now where the fuck is that Gorilla I’m meant to be interviewing….
Blinkx.com Video Search API or More?
June 17, 2008
Video Search engines – Cannes Fringe talks to Blinkx.com about how their technology works to categorise videos through advanced video scanning that apparently looks at each video and listens to the audio and watches each frame to actually identify the subject and therefore category of the video. This is promised to give users a much more contextual search result.How it does this we’d love to know, according to Frederico Grosso SVP of Business Development for blinkx.com, the technology is protected by some 100+ patents. Well – we asked if the video search could go deeper than just the usual API spidering that we see on most video search sites where the video sites have to submit their feeds to get listed, or for instance could blinkx.com identify and categorise a single .mov file sitting on a web server / page some place – something we feel a real video search engine, hopfully one day should be able to do? The answer was not too clear, and apparently the system currently seems to just search and categorise hosted videos on sites such as youtube, metacafe and the rest of the API based video website - you know the usual suspects.
Blinkx.com is indeed a very good video search destination and under test it does return some very interesting and in-depth search results from a very wide - if not the widest we’ve seen group of sites – even if they do all seem to be API based and from the major video sites and not free “video file formats”. But if your looking for a good video search tool to point out what videos are out there on the growing number of video websites Blinkx.com would seem to be a good choice, for users and networks looking for a video search partner.
Fireflies Ride - Day 3
June 16, 2008
The Fireflies have completed Day 3 of their epic mission across the Alps. Keep it going guys!!
Last day of the Golden Drum 07
October 19, 2007
The apex of the last day is the pre-premiere of the Gunn Report. We find out, what’s that all about…
Fringers on speed
October 18, 2007
The Fringers speeded up the day after the party night on their special way…
Already halfway through the Golden Drum 07
October 17, 2007
The 3rd day is over - we’re already halfway through the festival. Time for a little resume…
Cannes Fringe at the Golden Drum Festival
October 16, 2007
The 14th Golden Drum Festival started in Portoroz on the Slovenian coast - for sure Cannes Fringe is there!
This perfectly organized festival just started and 1,500 participants came from all over the world to enjoy an interesting and relaxed festival! We like it! On our first day people are getting adjusted to the way of life in this beautiful Slovenian town and gearing up for a week of industry discussion. Cannes Fringe went out and about to check out the town that is hosting this years festival.
