They Promised Us Convergence, an UPDATE

Back in June I published a list of companies that are blurring the line between TV and computer. (see original post) The march toward convergence continues as evidenced by the companies below.

iFilm was acquired by Viacom in 2005 and "is a leading online video network, serving user-uploaded and professional content to over ten million viewers monthly."

Blinkx apparently has over 14 million hours of searchable video and major partnerships with dozens of media companies. Read more about the partnership with RealNetworks (and the competition with Windows Media) in a post on Beet.tv.

The Interactive Television Alliance is "an independent trade association representing the broad interests of the entire ITV industry."

Seattle-based BuddyTV has all the info you'd ever want to know about your favorite TV shows.

For a great article on the marriage of search and TV content, check out John Battelle's post "TV and Search Merge".

Of course, BitTorrent is still going strong as some users continue to ignore the strictly legal channels and just trade huge files back and forth.

Hulu is NBC Universal and News Corporation’s joint video venture, still in private beta. They have some huge plans, which is probably why they just left iTunes to go it alone.