I was able to open source (with permission) a tiny part of the channl.tv code: an addition to Mislav Maronic’s contacts plugin. It allows you to import Yahoo contacts as well (where Mislav’s plugin only did Google contacts).

There you go. Channl.tv is evolving:

• we added Vimeo en Blip.tv to the video sites you can add from automatically.
• From monday onwards (releases just before the weekend = not a good idea) it will be possible to twitter a video or channel one likes from the application. Pondering addition of Del.icio.us.
• We added an API (read-only at the moment) for interaction with channl.tv’s content.

I also dumped Ferret as a search tool, because it started throwing up weird C errors, and regenerating indexes or any of the usual restarts could not cure it. I’d heard that Ferret could be a tad unstable. QED. Ferret out, Sphinx in (again, starting on monday).