blinkx Brings Viewers the Best in Technology Tutorial Videos With Woopid


SAN FRANCISCO, March 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- Trustworthy tech support at www.blinkx.com

blinkx, the world's largest and most advanced video search engine, today
announced a partnership with Woopid (www.woopid.com), the Web's best resource
for technology tutorial videos. More than 2,000 of Woopid's premium
instructional video clips are now more easily accessible than ever before,
courtesy of blinkx. Leveraging its unique AdHoc platform, blinkx will also
place contextually relevant advertising against the footage, and share
resulting advertising revenue with Woopid.

From discovering the secrets of Windows Vista to getting a first look at
the latest Safari beta, users of all technical skills and abilities can find
the answers they're looking for with Woopid, a company devoted to providing
simple solutions to technology-related problems. Woopid's ever-growing
library of high quality step-by-step video tutorials includes instruction
across a wide variety of technical subjects, from hardware to software, and
more.

"Instructional video is extremely popular right now, as words alone often
paint an incomplete picture of a given task or technique," said Suranga
Chandratillake, founder and CEO, blinkx. "We're happy to include so many of
the world's leading how-to video sites in our index, and think the most
recent addition of Woopid's technology tutorials will be extremely useful for
our users."

"We're delighted to partner with blinkx to make Woopid's content easily
accessible to audiences across the world," said Brandon Kane, president,
Woopid. "blinkx's powerful search technology will allow viewers to benefit
from our expert tech tips immediately and effortlessly."

As the pioneer in video search technology, blinkx has built a reputation
as the smartest way to search new forms of online content such as video. With
more than 450 partners and 35 million hours of indexed video and audio
content, including favorite TV moments, news clips, short documentaries,
music videos, video blogs and more, blinkx uses advanced speech-recognition
technology to deliver results that are more accurate and reliable than
standard metadata-based keyword searches.

About blinkx

blinkx plc (LSE AIM: BLNX) is the world's most comprehensive video search
engine. Today, blinkx has indexed more than 35 million hours of audio, video,
viral and TV content, and made it fully searchable and available on demand.
blinkx's founders set out to solve a significant challenge - as TV and
user-generated content on the Web explode, keyword-based search technologies
only scratch the surface. blinkx's patented search technologies listen to -
and even see - the Web, helping users enjoy a breadth and accuracy of search
results not available elsewhere. In addition, blinkx powers the video search
for many of the world's most frequented sites. blinkx is based in San
Francisco and London. More information is available at www.blinkx.com.

About Woopid

Woopid is the easiest and most complete resource for computer questions,
PC or Mac, no matter how big or small. Free to watch and share, videos are
simple to follow and inspire users to further their technical abilities.
Using a proprietary "Take a Step Back", "Moving Forward"(TM) system, people
of any technical level can absorb and understand the same instructional
video. Registration for Woopid is also free, and enables users to request
custom video tutorials to answer their unique problems and questions for a
nominal fee.

Woopid also offers marketers targeted banner and in-video advertising
solutions, as well as customized Woopid portals for educational institutions.

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