Blinkx makes very slick video search technology which has been available for fairly some duration to consumers through Blinkx.com. One of the site’s cool features is that whether you enter in a search term, it will play in succession all the videos it finds that term in.

Now Blinkx is popping that concept out of the browser and putting it in a downloadable screensaver app. Blinkx Beat lets you create your own channels that automatically play when your screensaver pops on (or whenever you want, providing Blinkx Beat is configured as your PC’s default screensaver). You can additionally set it to display pre-configured channels like News or Sports.

To choose videos from a playlist, you can use Blinkx’s appealing but uninformative video “wall,” which shows you moving thumbnails of videos in a channel, but not fairly adequate knowledge to tell whether they’re worth zooming in on.

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the news that fits in your screen saver.

It’s a nice-looking app but it’s already gotten me in to trouble. I set up the Blinkx Beat screensaver and next got called off to a assembly. The video popped on to my screen, with audio, distracting and disturbing co-workers. When I got back to my desk, I was greeted with glares. Honestly, I never did get content-based screensavers. Who wants to run an app that’s most useful when you’re absent from your PC? But whether you want to use your PC as a stand-in for a TV that you’d otherwise always leave on, give it a shot.

Blinkx will be presenting at a New Tech Meetup I’m moderating tomorrow, along with Seero, Seesmic, Mesmo, and Your Truman Show. The event is sold out but I’ll report on the highlights afterwards.

Original post by Rafe Needleman