The new service also lets people create customized "channels," based on topics or keyword searches, that automatically show video clips when opened and can be downloaded to PCs.
"My Blinkx.tv," currently free to use, features user-generated video from 3,500 to 4,000 sources, mostly from grassroots groups and individuals, said Suranga Chandratillake, Blinkx founder.
The company is considering expanding the service with video from traditional media partners that now let Blinkx crawl their video databases, he said. In addition, Blinkx may eventually charge people to view premium content, or it may try to make money from ads on the site, he said.
Blinkx competes with video search services from Google, Yahoo, America Online and Microsoft's MSN, but those services do not feature automatic, continuous streaming video like My Blinkx.tv, Chandratillake said.
Talkback
Note to blinkx, if you must generate money then do it the Google way and use ads, other wise you'll service will recede and die from the grass roots up.
Other note to blinkx: make sure your product actually does what it says it does before launching new add-ons, i cant get it to find what I want - it's supposed to be operating a speech to text search - meaning i can put anything in and it will find it in content - but doesn't seem to work like that at all
seems this guy agrees with me http://www.newmediamusings.com - type blinkx into the search (its still some way down the front page now though as well)