Message-ID: <17151700.1075845215367.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:11:57 -0700 (PDT) From: 348636.36020686.1@listserv.redherring.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: CATCH OF THE DAY: Listen and understand Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "RedHerring.com" @ENRON X-To: alewis@ect.enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Lewis, Andrew H.\Lewis, Andrew H.\Deleted Items X-Origin: LEWIS-A X-FileName: Lewis, Andrew H..pst Find these stories and more at http://www.redherring.com ------------------------------------------------------------ TOP STORY: Now that smaller competitors have fallen by the wayside, ISPs like AOL have been boosting rates. That may be good news for weary investors in the short term, but is a rate hike a smart move for the long run? Is greed good for AOL and other ISPs? http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=20000002&doc_id=840019484&rh_special_report_id= ------------------------------------------------------------ A D V E R T I S E M E N T Taking a Point Solution Approach to E-Business? Good luck. Unless you're feeling very, very lucky, pick up your E-Business Success Kit today. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;2878811;5934422;p?http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=641073&Act=100 A D V E R T I S E M E N T ------------------------------------------------------------ Catch of the Day: Listen and understand Streaming video may be a bust from a business perspective, but that doesn't stop companies from trying to innovate. For example, this week I met with Tim Sibley, the founder of StreamSage. His product listens to the words in audio or video files, then compiles custom sets of clips in response to search queries. The product glues together speech-recognition technology from SRI, Cycorp's syntactic and semantic processors, and StreamSage's own code. In a demo, the system delivered good responses to search queries against a video of a Qwest shareholders meeting. The system matches concepts, not just words, and it picks good times to start and end a clip, unlike some systems that just target a word and pad a fixed buffer of content on either side of it. Tim has visions of a world in which consumers, perhaps on some future TiVo, can compile completely custom programs. Fortunately, reason prevails and his current plan is to sell StreamSage to enterprises, like those with large libraries of training videos. StreamSage's technical advantages notwithstanding, it is underfunded and up against established competitors, including Virage, Convera, and MediaSite. In other words, its 18 employees are acquisition bait. But who's buying? - Rafe Needleman, rafe-needleman@redherring.com Editor, http://www.redherring.com COMPANIES * StreamSage http://www.streamsage.com * SRI International http://www.sri.com * Cycorp http://www.cyc.com * Virage http://www.virage.com * Convera http://www.convera.com * MediaSite http://www.mediasite.com RELATED STORIES * Catch of the Day: New media's weakest link http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=80000008&doc_id=550019255 * The Red Eye: Broadband breakfast party http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=10000001&doc_id=690019469&rh_special_report_id= * Streaming data flows into view http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=40000004&doc_id=290018629 * Akamai Technologies: Streaming from a server near you http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=special_report_gen&channel=70000007&doc_id=770018877&rh_special_report_id=340000034 * Bang Networks: Bang on target with streaming data http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=special_report_gen&channel=70000007&doc_id=10019001&rh_special_report_id=340000034 * Is streaming all wet? http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=80000008&doc_id=520018652 * Analyst View: The emergence of rich media http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=20000002&doc_id=1210017521 * Catch of the Day: If you hum a few bars ... http://www.redherring.com/index.asp?layout=story&channel=80000008&doc_id=410018841 ------------------------------------------------------------ A D V E R T I S E M E N T Taking a Point Solution Approach to E-Business? 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