It’s been a little over a year since we released the SnapStream Server, our turn-key TV search appliance that allows organizations to record lots of TV and then search inside those recordings, and we've accomplished a lot in that year! Some of the highlights:

Jed Lewison, the video blogger behind The Jed Report, has been using SnapStream's TV search appliance to make his point:

Yesterday, I was wondering who got more national TV coverage during the Republican and the Democratic Conventions, so I decided to put the mostly-hidden graphing feature in SnapStream Enterprise through its paces.

Matthew Ericson at the New York Times did a really cool visualization last week, "The Words They Used", comparing the most frequently used words at the Democratic and Republican Conventions (from the article, "Republicans were more likely to talk about businesses and taxes, while Democrats were more likely to mention jobs or the economy.")

We've improved existing features and added a few new ones to our TV Search Appliance in turn making recording, searching, clipping, and archiving television more efficient for your organization. Let's take a closer look at what's new.

Last weekend the Houston Technology Center hosted BarCampHouston3. For those of you asking yourself what exactly a BarCamp event is, well it’s a way for techies to meet up, mingle, network, and exchange ideas. Our very own Rakesh Agrawal headed over to HTC and was interviewed by Mike McGuff, Multimedia Web Producer at KTRK-ABC. Rakesh answers the who, what, how and why on SnapStream’s Enterprise TV Search Appliance. Check out the interview below.

Coming to a city near you, SnapStream Media will be showcasing the latest in their TV search technology. Learn more about the Enterprise TV search appliance from any of the sales engineers by visiting them at any of the following conferences:

Jeff Jarvis wrote a blog post last week about how he thought the word "actually" was overused on television. Here's the post (he lost a bunch of posts and hasn't restored them all):

This coming week, some of us from SnapStream are headed to San Antonio, TX to attend and exhibit at one of the largest annual 'technology in education' events here in the U.S. -- the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC).