Pluggd...

Just saw this article on VentureBeat that gave a quick update on this company we've been tracking for a few months now. It's called Pluggd and aside from having some solid backers and venture financing, they're amazingly enough trying to sell a decent product. They provide heatmaps of audio files (and soon video) that show you where certain words or themes pop up. How they're going to do this with video is beyond me, but it will make online video searches that much more relevant and timesaving. When it's ready, we'd obviously love to use technology like this on our site, so we're interested in seeing what they negotiate with partners in terms of pricing and who they partner up with over the summer.