• The Roundabout Tapes – Frameblast aims to be the Google for TV and video archives

    Mike Butcher

    Mike Butcher is the European At Large with TechCrunch. As such he has a roving brief to write about Startups, Venture Capital, technology trends and emerging markets. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long-time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and... → Learn More

    Monday, May 30th, 2011

    Continuing our series of interviews with companies in the Silicon Roundabout area of London (we’re calling this The Roundabout Tapes), we interviewed Clearer Partners.

    Clearer is a specialised tech/media consulting company but is also doing a startup. The soon to launch Frameblast is aimed at SOHO companies who want to handle video in a smarter way along the lines of Media Silo. Companies can upload their archives into the cloud and use it like a Google search engine for their archive, with tags galore.

    The ex-Joost team is also working with the The British Parliament on transforming its handling of its huge video archive from a modern approach – as opposed to an older, more broadcast way of doing things.