Posted on: April 9th, 2008   By: Haris Khan
Under: Web 2.0, WhereverTv, Zigron Inc

Yesterday I attended a technology meetup “The SF New Tech Meetup” in San Francisco. It had some great presentations including a very cool robo dinosaur Pleo. This toy has a self learning behavioral engine which develops over time based on how one treats it. Users can also code new behaviors for it.

pluggd was the startup which got my attention. They have a patented technology which helps user search within a video and then the result is displayed in a form of heat map on top of it. For now they are not in direct competition with Google Video Search as pluggd is a back-end platform which any video publisher can use.

It got me thinking that pluggd can be a very interesting fit for one of our startups Wherever.tv where our goal is to get the online video content to your tv set without the hassle of operating or learning a pc. It can be a great feature where users can search different keywords within a video to find appropriate content. Now there is a major usability issue because users hate typing text with a tv remote.

Despite this issue I think its a great technology which can still be utilized in Wherever.tv. If anyone of you has a better idea on how to grab text via remote without making it a nightmare, please feel free share.