SnapStream is a

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software company based in

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, United States that focuses on building TV monitoring software for organizations in broadcast, government and education. Prior to developing TV Search, SnapStream was long recognized in the consumer world of

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for the creation of '' Beyond TV''. However, Beyond TV has not been updated since 2010, as a result of the company shifting focus towards the Enterprise Search product.

Products

SnapStream TV Search

In mid-2007, SnapStream developed an enterprise product using its own namesake, for the purposes of searching, recording and monitoring television. SnapStream, the TV search engine, enables users to interface with television as a clippable, editable and linkable medium from their Mac or PC. SnapStream was a broadcast industry pioneer in creating such a crossover device, converging

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capabilities and digital video recording. Today, the TV search appliance is deployed at all kinds of organizations in government, education and entertainment who closely monitor and archive traditional television media.

Beyond TV

Firefly PC Remote

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uses

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to operate a Windows-based computer via its ''Beyond Media Basic'' software (or a

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PC via Microsoft's ''Media Center Edition'' operating system) and can control other applications.

TV Trends

TV Trends, a free and open resource to the public, was SnapStream's online database of searchable TV. TV Trends extrapolates hot words (in ranking popularity) and cold words (by reduced frequency) from a spectrum of national news programs such as

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, and HLN. Accordingly, these patterns may align with trending topics on

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and

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, and provide a measurable indicator of the associative relationship between traditional media and social media at any given time. Type in up to 10 keywords for comparison and the site creates visual graphs, showing a historical representation of televised media coverage dating back to late 2008. TV Trends graphs can be embedded so that users can interact with and manipulate the timeline view. The service was taken down on June 21, 2011, according to the company's blog.SnapStream TV Searcher Blog - ''Farewell to TV Trends''
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References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.snapstream.com/
Official company blog

TV Trends
Media servers Digital video recorders Servers (computing) Television technology