Matchmine Teams with Pixsy, Vastly Expanding Recommendation Engine
By Kristen Nicole — 7/18/2008
Since revamping a portion of its product offering late last year, Matchmine has since gone on to provide recommendation tools that are integrated with a network’s existing user preferences, as well as a centralized location for individual users to access and maintain their preferences from across their various networks. It’s a bit of a mouthful, but it’s a two-way street that covers a wide array of personal recommendations, and carries a good deal of flexibility in terms of future implementation of media consumption, recommendations, and cross-network communications.
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Video Search Engine Pixsy Corp. Partners With InfoSpace
By Gavin O'Malley — 7/14/2008
Online video search engine Pixsy Corp. today is expected to announce a distribution partnership with InfoSpace, a developer of tools and technologies to help people discover content and information.
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Startup tidbits: Smartsheet adds tracking, Estately adds SF, Pixsy adds INSP
By Brier Dudley — 7/14/2008
There's a flurry of startup momentum and deal announcements today, including:
- Pixsy, a private-label video and image search platform based in Seattle and San Francisco, is announcing a major partnership with InfoSpace. Pixsy will power InfoSpace video and image search in Europe, but the deal could lead to Pixsy providing the same services to InfoSpace in the U.S. as well, according to Pixsy Chief Executive Chase Norlin.
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Seattle's Pixsy is in the thick of the 'gold rush' effort by video search sites
By Tom — 7/14/2008
Where do you go to find the latest Web video of your favorite actress, especially the recent one with her flipping out when surrounded by paparazzi?
Three years ago you didn’t have that many choices. Today, as the Web has shifted dramatically toward image and video content, you can choose from about a dozen specialized video-search sites.
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InfoSpace selects Pixsy for video and image search
By eff Hyatt — 7/9/2008
Pixsy Corporation, a leading B2B provider of private label video and image search to websites and applications, today announced a distribution partnership with InfoSpace, a leading developer of tools and technologies, to help people discover and enjoy content and information.
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Pixsy Zeroes in on White-Label Video and Image Search
By Will Richmond — 5/29/2008
As the proliferation of broadband video continues apace, the task of finding what you're looking for is only intensifying. That's set off a scramble by many to solve this problem, trying to become in effect, the "Google of video search."
The latest video search company to hit my radar is Pixsy, which has its own distinctive approach for capturing its share of the growing video search market. I recently spoke with Chase Norlin, Pixsy's CEO to learn more.
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Pixsy Partners With MMORPG.com on Online Gaming Video Search Engine
By Allen Stern — 5/28/2008
White label multimedia search provider Pixsy will announce a partnership with MMORPG.com on Thursday. Under the terms of the agreement, MMORPG.com will utilize Pixsy's advanced media searchplatform to power an online gaming video search engine targeted to MMORPG enthusiasts who are interesting in online role-playing.
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Pixsy, Ditto in consumer image search deal
By Jeff Hyatt — 5/15/2008
Pixsy Corporation, a B2B provider of private label video and image search engines to websites and applications, today announced a distribution partnership with Ditto, Inc., a leading visual search engine.
With the new agreement, Ditto will utilize Pixsy’s advanced media search platform to power consumer image search on destination search property Ditto.com and across its network of partners and affiliates.
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Pixsy To Announce Partnership With Ditto
By Allen Stern — 5/15/2008
White label multimedia search provider Pixsy will announce a partnership with visual search engine Ditto on Thursday. Ditto enables people to navigate the Web through pictures. Under the terms of the agreement, Ditto will utilize Pixsy’s advanced media search platform to power consumer image search on destination search property Ditto.com and across its network of partners and affiliates.
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Pixsy Powering Ditto
By The Inquisitr — 5/15/2008
Media search platform provider Pixsy has sealed a distribution partnership with visual search engine Ditto.
Under the deal Ditto will utilize Pixsy’s media search platform to power consumer image search on destination search property Ditto.com and across its network of partners and affiliates.
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Pixsy Lands National Lampoon Deal
By The Inquisitr — 5/8/2008
Media search platform provider Pixsy has announced a distribution partnership with National Lampoon that will see Pixsy provide its media search platform to National Lampoons five million users.
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Pixsy Powers Video Search for National Lampoon
By Allen Stern — 5/6/2008
Multimedia search provider Pixsy will announce tomorrow a new distribution partnership with National Lampoon. Under the terms of the partnership, Pixsy will power a custom branded search within the National Lampoon network of entertainment sites which they self-report at over five million unique users per month.
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Pixsy Offers Recommended Video and More Money with Collarity
By Adam Ostrow — 4/7/2008
Pixsy, who provides private label multimedia search to numerous publishers, has announced a partnership with Collarity to both compliment its existing technology and better monetize its advertising inventory. Collarity provides web sites with related content widgets and behavioral ad solutions.
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A Chat with Pixsy’s CEO Chase Norlin
By altSearch Engines — 3/10/2008
This week, AltSearchEngines (ASE) welcomes the CEO of Pixsy, Chase Norlin. Norlin has spent the past fourteen years in the emerging technologies and online media space. Prior to Pixsy, Norlin served as Senior Business Development Executive at ValueClick, where he managed publisher distribution and emerging technologies for the ValueClick display ad network, paid search, and comparison shopping divisions.
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Pixsy creates a celebrity search widget for Pageflakes
By Rachel Hawkes — 3/6/2008
Media search platform Pixsy has announced a partnership with Pageflakes to provide users of the ‘personalised homepage’ with a celebrity search widget (or “flake”).
The partnership will connect Pageflakes to Pixsy’s video and image index. Chief executive officer of Pageflakes comments, “The unique ability of the Pixsy index enables our users to get the latest celebrity content, whenever they want it.”
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Pixsy Signs Another. Perfspot Using Image Search API.
By Kristen Nicole — 2/21/2008
Perfspot was named a mover and shaker last year by Amazon, as it was a quickly growing website last Spring, but we haven’t heard much from the youth-oriented site lately, though Perfspot is claiming 8 million members across 190 countries. In an effort to enhance its existing tools on the site, Perfspot has signed on the Pixsy Image search API to power image search across the network. It will be interesting to see how this search will be integrated for use on Perfspot.
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Pixsy: the Media Search Engine
By Arun Radhakrishnan — 2/12/2008
Pixsy, a media search platform that was once named in the Top 50 coolest websites of 2006 by Time magazine, uses innovative visually focussed search processes to extract images from RSS feeds and blogs so that contextually relevant up to date pictures obtained. The engine has been focussed on a licensing model where web sites can also tailor the engine for site specific or web wide image search.
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HBO: Internet killed the cable star
By Tom Taulli — 1/28/2008
It's hard to believe that – not long ago – cable television was a cutting-edge thing. Hey, didn't kids once say: "I want my MTV"?
Now, of course, the new-new thing is online video, especially with the extreme popularity of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)'s YouTube.
I had a chance to interview Chase Norlin, the CEO of Pixsy, an online video search company. According to him:
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Pixsy Steals Lycos from Blinkx for Video Search?
By Kristen Nicole — 1/25/2008
We typically hear of Pixsy partnering with other media (usually video- or photo-sharing) sites to power their video and image search, and today the company is taking its offerings to a larger level. Pixsy has signed a distribution deal with Lycos, which will be using the image and video search tool to power search on its network and owned and operated properties and affiliates.
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Pixsy And Lycos Create Partnership
By Lycos — 1/25/2008
Pixsy Corporation, a media search platform that powers private label video and image search engines, announced this week that it has made a distribution deal with Lycos Inc., a provider of social publishing, media and search services. Under the agreement, Lycos will utilize Pixsy’s media search platform to offer video and image search to their network of owned and operated properties and affiliates.
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Lycos Taps Pixsy to Power Video Search
By Daisy Whitney — 1/24/2008
Video search service Pixsy struck a deal with Lycos to power video and image search across Lycos.
Lycos will use Pixsy to let users search for the latest Web videos and photos.
As a video search engine, Pixsy competes with Truveo and Blinkx. However, Pixsy has focused on striking deals for private-label search with other Web sites, such as Lycos.
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Pixsy Powers Video & Image Search; an Interview with CEO Chase Norlin
By Grant Crowell — 1/11/2008
This week the digital multimedia search provider Pixsy, announced its media search partnership with Maxim Digital, which sites include Maxim.com, Blender.com, and Stuffmagazine.com. Over the past few months, Pixsy has become the distributor of chose for many content publishers to expand their video and image search capabilities, especially amongst publishers in the entertainment, travel industries, music sites, Internet television platforms, and popular video and image search desination sites as well.
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Pixsy Builds Out Search Portals
By Frank Smith — 1/10/2008
San Francisco's Pixsy, a video and search aggregator, will now bring its technology to the Maxim family of Websites. The purpose of the deal is to create mini-portals to search content based on Pixsy's index. "Everyone talks about search, but no one talks about how you can create portals," says CEO Chase Norlin.
Pixsy monitors RSS feeds to create an index of the most popular content searches. Minutes after a video or an image appears online it can be pulled into Pixsy's index and appear in search results.
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Video Search Service Pixsy Makes Deal With Maxim Digital
By Daisy Whitney — 1/8/2008
Video search service Pixsy struck a deal with Maxim Digital, the family of Web sites targeting young men. Under the deal,
Pixsy will power video and photo search for Maxim.com, Blender.com and Stuffmagazine.com.
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Pixsy hooks up with Maxim
By John Cook — 1/8/2008
Pixsy, the video and image search engine, has inked a deal to provide its service to the Maxim Digital properties of Maxim.com, Blender.com and Stuffmagazine.com. Those sites attract more than 5 million visitors per month, mostly young males.
With offices in Seattle and San Francisco, Pixsy is led by Chase Norlin, who formerly worked at InfoSpace, Corbis and Mercent.
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Pixsy and Hot Girls: Powering Maxim Search
By Kristen Nicole — 1/8/2008
Pixsy has partnered up with another company today. The video and image search engine has penned a deal with Maxim Digital, to provide its services to Maxim’s online properties, including Blender, Stuffmagazine and Maxim.com. With a slew of partnerships over the course of the past year, Pixsy has been competing against the likes of Blinkx, which has also spent quite some time forging deals with other websites and search engines.
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Pixsy To Power Video And Image Search For Maxim Digital
By Gavin O'Malley — 1/8/2008
DIGITAL MEDIA SEARCH PROVIDER PIXSY has reached a deal to power video and image search for Maxim Digital's network of sites, including Maxim.com, Blender.com and Stuffmagazine.com.
Maxim Digital will apply Pixsy's proprietary technology, which trawls the Web on an hourly basis, aggregating and categorizing video and image results into various content verticals.
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Online video: What's tuning up for 2008?
By Tom Taulli — 1/7/2008
So far this year, online video is making a big mark. Just look at the Iowa caucuses, where voters posted their efforts on YouTube and then spread them across social networks like MySpace and Facebook. So what else might we see in 2008 for online video?
Well, I had a chance to interview Chase Norlin, who is the CEO of Pixsy (an online video company). According to him:
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