Blinx.com is a new web video search engine that has a captioned category: http://www.blinkx.com/videos/captionedAnother one, which doesn't seem to have a captioned category, lets you search on captioned:http://ovguide.com/

The Proud Geek blog has been reporting on additional methods for getting captions on your web videos. Thus far, he has posted about Jumpcut and Windows Movie Maker.

I hope Harkle.com can keep up. There are four options I have learned about this year for web video captioning:

2007 has barely started, and already deaf bloggers are expressing concerns about the failure of technology/media companies (e.g. Apple, Netflix) to consider the needs of the deaf when developing new products and services:

Some people may wonder why I list subtitling companies as well as captioning companies. The answer is simple: there is little difference. Subtitling software will frequently support closed captioning also. The skills involved are the same - putting words on the screen. For a prospective customer seeking open captioning services, a company that does subtitling probably could do the work.Including subtitling services providers greatly expands the pool of potential services to select from when doing competitive shopping for captioning services.

Captioning and subtitling services, especially offline, are becoming so widely available that anyone who wants to caption something, can find a captioning service provider. This weekend alone, I added over 30 companies internationally. The database now stands at over 240 records, with some companies having multiple locations (I actually need to go back and add in more addresses for some companies).

Added this week:

1. Caption Solutions
2. Visual Data Media Services
3. Intex Multilingual Communication
4. Merrill Corporation
5. Bridge Multimedia
6. NJ Captions

The services search page has been improved again, to add another option: select companies doing all service types. A user can select any number of services and find companies that perform all of the selected services. For example, a user wanting to find a company that does both live and multilingual captioning can select "Live" and "Multilingual" and get a list of companies that do both.

The following improvements have been made to captions.org:1. Searching on services - Now it is possible to select individually from Film subtitling, Internet, Offline, Subtitling, and Multilingual. Before, it was an awkward, confusing list.

Just added to the database:

1. Visual Vox
2. Line 21, Inc.