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Viewdle Launches Name Widget, Election Tracker

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Facial recognition video search startup Viewdle today launched two products designed to help users find additional content on people they’re looking for.

The first, a name widget that allows online publishers to link to additional video content on a person from the Viewdle-indexed Reuters video library, say, for the sake of traffic
Britney Spears

The other, a flash based election coverage tracker that counts number of media appearances and minutes of airtime candidate has had over the past day, week, month and year. In the future this type of technology should make it a lot easier for FEC monitors to fine media organizations not providing equal time to candidates.