Today, we're taking pre-orders for a new TV search product from SnapStream -- the SnapStream Mini.

One field where SnapStream's TV search technology is having an impact is broadcast television research in the field of journalism. Rather than manually transcribing TV broadcasts for the purposes of content analysis, researchers are using SnapStream to automatically retrieve full transcripts for TV shows.

The SnapStream's TV Alerts feature allows you to save keywords and have your SnapStream Server (or SnapStream Mini) automatically search all of your TV recordings for them; you'll get an email with results on a real-time, daily or weekly basis - you choose the frequency. If you've ever used Google Alerts, think of this like Google Alerts but for traditional television.

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.