Hulu

Hulu is a video-on-demand website, owned by NBC and FOX, that allows you to see entire episodes of your favorite shows like Heroes and Nip/Tuck, as well as entire movies.

Hulu was designed to compete with YouTube by offering free online video, and along with the iTunes Store, by offering premium video content. The only drawback is you have to watch a few short 15-second commercials that are shown in place of those longer commercials as shown on regularly broadcast TV.

Hulu seems to work best with short clips (like Saturday Night Live) rather than with longer videos. It faces other competing video-on-demand websites like CBS-owned TV.com and Joost (which recently eliminated its software-based viewing model).

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  Hulu Likely to Charge for Content in 2010
  Popular online broadcast video venture to begin charging users for content
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Hulu”

• Weekend Roundup #60

  
  JaypeeOnline — Authority: 571
  Wassup guys? How’s everyone doing? Hope you’re all doing fine. My apologies for the very late roundup. I was kinda busy last weekend and was too tired to finish the draft and publish this edition of the Weekend Roundup. Played a couple of basketball games last Saturday night and went home past 11 PM. I was dead ...
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• SNL Tops Hulu’s Weekly “Movers & Shakers” List

  
  Mashable! — Authority: 884
  Unlike YouTube, Hulu doesn’t show you the number of times a given video has been viewed. Although the site does have a “ Most Popular ” section, Hulu recently started offering a bit more insight into viewing trends by distributing “Movers & Shakers” charts (via email) that lists the most popular videos, ...
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• Hulu: Graveyard of Astoundingly Bad Feature Films

  
  Media and Mayhem — Authority: 122
  Have you ever perused the feature films available for viewing on Hulu? I understand the economics that precludes quality product from showing up as freebies. But the available films look like someone was given the specific assignment of finding the worst films possible. In fact, it is such a perfectly putrid list of ...
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• SomaCow 401: Neuterality

  
  SomaCow — Authority: 118
  Originally chirped at Somacow.com In this episode the following was discussed, or at least mentioned: Christian Chirp Ross tests the hopper Man Things Soft hits radio, safe for the little ears? Stryper 1 Ball vs 1 Arm South Park and acting out after what you saw Motorbikers LifeCoaching Fox News And ...
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• Conan, Television, and the Hulu Effect

  
  Rodger Visitacion's Blog: Life in the Startup Lane — Authority: 91
  Watching Conan O’Brien’s ratings plummet, I’ve been bothered that something was off.  Something in this story isn’t completely being told. Jay Leno moves to 10 pm, Conan O’Brien moves into the coveted Tonight Show seat, and the net effect is that David Letterman moves into first place in the infamous late ...
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• I wonder if Jamie from last week’s episode is a member of TRAAAPD?

  
  Medium Dreams — Authority: 133
  For those of you who haven’t seen it, Taylor Swift did a great job hosting SNL this past weekend. One of my favorite sketches was a PSA she did for TRAAAPD (Teens Raising Awareness About Awful Parent Drivers). In it, Swift decries all of the flack teens have been getting for texting while driving and similar ...
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• There are Only Eight More Episodes of NBC’s Trauma Left – Let’s Savor Each One.

  
  San Francisco Citizen — Authority: 527
  Now, I’m not up to speed here – is Glenn the gay guy that just came out? Anyway, find out tonight on Channel 3. “ Glenn’s attempt to follow his heart puts his career — and safety — on the line. Meanwhile, Marisa gets a surprise visit from an old friend. Elsewhere, Rabbit helps a patient deal with his ...
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• Garry Fung about Isohunt and Hexagon.cc

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  Networkworld has an interesting , albeit a little ill-formatted interview with Isohunt.com founder Garry Fung, who offers a few interesting details about his site. Isohunt is currently getting around 30 million visitors per month, according to Fung, and its MySQL index is a whopping 30 GB. That’s a lot of torrent ...
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• More Brit GenX TV

  
  junkdrawer67 — Authority: 114
  I hadn’t realized before but hulu does that amazon thing where they suggest other shows you might like based on whatever show you happen to be watching. Same way amazon does with books, although I have to say I often find amazon’s suggestions suspect, at least for my taste. Anyhoo… one of the suggestions ...
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• CNN Blogger Bunch: Windows 7 and Hulu Subscriptions

  
  Chris Pirillo — Authority: 576
  I was recently featured on CNN live website, along with my buddies Pete Cashmore (from Mashable) and Brian Chen (from Wired). We had a great time discussing things like Windows 7 and the announcement of Hulu subscriptions. It’s an interesting roundtable from the three of us self-avowed “Mac” guys, who all have ...
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• Oprah Doesn’t Need CBS – Do You?

  
  Paul Colligan's Profitable Podcasting — Authority: 400
  CBS is scared . They heard the rumor (I’m sure you did too) that Oprah might be moving from them to her “OWN” network (perfect name) and, well, the offers should get really interesting. Sit back for a second and move past the inevitable bidding war that is about to happen. Ponder this simple fact: Oprah ...
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• Stargate Universe - GateWorld: Full Coverage: Earth

  
  Subduction Leads to Orogeny — Authority: 436
  At GateWorld : FULL COVERAGE: Earth Discussion Episode Guide Photos Screen Captures Transcript Watch on Hulu Download (iTunes)
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• Flash Forward Episode Seven: The Gift...

  
  Blue Sky Disney — Authority: 474
  Here Im back with another post to one of the very few shows that I watch... If you didnt get to see it, ABC s latest episode of " Flash Forward " on last Thursday night was entitled: " The Gift " and it was really, very good. Seven episodes and it keeps getting creepier and yet, more intriguing dealing with ...
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• Online Video Services Becoming More Like Traditional TV

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  The online video service Hulu added a long-overdue feature last week: A “coming soon” page designed to give the site’s millions of users a heads-up about when they’ll be able to watch the next new episode of “Fringe” or “Parks and Recreation” in their Web browsers. Ever since it launched in 2007, as a ...
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• The Future of TV

  
  A Philosopher's Blog — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia While I’m rather fond of technology and gadgets, it is only recently that I tried Netflix streaming video on my Xbox 360 . It was fairly easy to do: sign in via your Xbox Gold membership, download the Netflix app to the Xbox 360, get the code it provides, sign in to Netflix, input the ...
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• Grey’s Anatomy Season 6 Episode 8 PART (2/5) Invest In Love

  
  TV Web Set — Authority: 152
  bit.ly Watch Grey’s Anatomy Season 6 Episode 8 Invest In Love s06e08 synopsis premiere preview promo 2009 new abc six eight nine GA Ellen Pompeo Meredith Grey Sandra Oh Cristina Yang Katherine Heigl Izzie Stevens Justin Chambers Alex Karev TR Knight George O’Malley Chandra Wilson Chandra Wilson Patrick Dempsey ...
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• Myka ION HD Media Player/Nettop with Boxee, Hulu support

  
  iTech News Net — Authority: 617
  Myka introduces the new Myka ION, a HD media player that brings video content to your HDTV from Boxee, Hulu and other leading Internet video services. Basically, the Myka ION is a mini PC running Ubuntu Linux 9.10 OS and includes Boxee, Hulu desktop and XMBC software. The device is powered by an dual core Intel ...
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• Myka ION HD Player Provides Hulu And Boxee Access In A Nice Package

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 760
  The Myka ION HD player as the name would suggest provides NVIDIA ION graphics with Hulu and Boxee support all from one centralized location. The device also provides PC application support for XBMC and other options and provides the ability to “browse to any web site and play video content directly onto your TV.” ...
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• Will Consumers Pay for Hulu.com Videos?

  
  Inside Digital Media — Authority: 106
  Phil Leigh Will consumers pay to watch TV shows and movies at the hulu.com website? Hulu.com’s website hosts popular TV shows and movies after they have been released normally. Owners include Disney, NBC-Universal, and News Corporation (Fox). Viewers can watch shows for free but in exchange must also watch ...
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• Sanctuary - Video: Hero

  
  Subduction Leads to Orogeny — Authority: 436
  Courtesy of SyFy and HULU : Sanctuary - Hero Season 2 : Ep. 4|43:49| Its a bird! Its a plane! Its...an Abnormal? Dr. Magnus investigates a crime-fighting superhero.
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