This totally kicks… I’ve yet to try this, but if you can pull down the video as an enclosure in RSS, it would be an amazing tracking tool for topics of interest or just video to watch.
San Francisco-based startup Blinkx has announced its multimedia search engine will be able to notify users whenever it indexes content that matches a term the users previously searched for.
The RSS alert system, called SmartFeed, is expected to go live on Blinkx’s Web site on Tuesday. After users enter a search term on Blinkx TV, they will get the option of setting up an RSS alert for it. Blinkx TV delivers the alerts to the user’s Really Simple Syndication aggregator service as text links to the multimedia content.
Users can opt to receive content alerts for any search term from all or some of Blinkx TV’s more than 30 audio and video channels, which include BBC News, Fox News, CNN, Bloomberg Television, NBC, MSNBC News, ABC, and ESPN, said Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx’s co-founder. PCWorld.com