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blinkx Partners With Top Culinary Experts to Bring Viewers a Smorgasbord of Tasty Video Offerings



    blinkx, the world´s largest video search engine, today announced
    partnerships with Cheflive, Kitchen Caravan and Savory Cities to offer
    viewers a wide range of food-related programming that is sure to
    please every palate. Through the partnerships, content will be fully
    searchable and playable at www.blinkx.com. Leveraging its unique AdHoc
    platform, blinkx will also place contextually relevant advertising
    against the video and share resulting advertising revenue with the
    partners.

    All three partnerships serve up satisfyingly useful and
    entertaining content. Las Vegas-based Cheflive provides viewers with
    exclusive cooking tips and tricks from Sin City´s talented chefs.
    Kitchen Caravan produces weekly episodes that focus on healthy meals
    made with fresh, quality ingredients, and online restaurant guide,
    Savory Cities, features an extensive collection of video profiles of
    top chefs and chef recommendations for numerous restaurants across
    America.

    "We´re delighted to make this wealth of professionally-produced
    content available to our viewers," said Suranga Chandratillake,
    founder and CEO, blinkx. "Everyone from gourmands to casual chefs can
    now easily find and watch these highly informative and appealing
    videos on blinkx.com."

    "Cheflive features world-class chefs teaching viewers how to
    prepare gourmet dishes and become pros in the kitchen," said John
    Guinivere, CEO, Cheflive. "blinkx is the perfect vehicle for our
    content because it allows users to easily access and engage with our
    instructional cooking videos."

    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 220 partners and 18 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 18 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 Cheflive

    Cheflive is a broadcast show and online social network about food.
    Cheflive will be on their second road trip this year, traveling around
    the country in an RV with a film crew, stopping in on chefs in B&B´s,
    the top restaurants and many unique food and cooking venues. They will
    also be shooting Pantry Raid, a show where their traveling chef knocks
    on the door of college fraternities and sororities and prepares a meal
    from whatever is found in their fridge and cupboard. Cheflive is also
    teaming up with HD production companies to create additional content
    for their multiple distribution channels. If interested you are
    encouraged to contact John Guinivere via e-mail john@cheflive.com.

    About Kitchen Caravan

    Kitchen Caravan is an online cooking show that travels the world
    through food. Through weekly episodes, we teach viewers how to prepare
    healthy food using fresh, seasonal ingredients. Our recipes blend
    journeys to far off lands with local ingredients and the pleasure of
    good company. With the kitchen as your caravan, let your imagination
    whisk you away!

    About Savory Cities

    Savory Cities is the leading video restaurant guide featuring over
    200 editorial video profiles of top restaurants in New York City, San
    Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle. Each video features the
    chef or restaurateur talking about the concept, atmosphere and food at
    their restaurant. Featured chefs include Thomas Keller of The French
    Laundry, Daniel Boulud of Restaurant Daniel and Joel Robuchon of
    L´Atelier de Joel Robuchon. Founded in 2005, Savory Cities is
    privately held and based in New York City. Visit
    http://newyork.savorycities.com for more information.