Hulu claims its mission is “to help you find and enjoy the world’s premier content when, where and how you want it.” And now, three months after it first launched, it’s finally getting around to delivering on that promise. This morning the video site, which is jointly owned by NBC Universal and News Corp., said it will offer full episodes of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and the “Colbert Report” beginning today.
If YouTube aims to someday host every music video ever made, as co-founder Steve Chen once claimed, it better get crackin’. Because the market’s getting crowded.
This morning PluggedIn Media launched a new service for streaming HD-quality music videos. Backed by Overbrook Entertainment–Will “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It” Smith’s production and management company–PluggedIn will offer some 10,000 [...]
Apparently, NBC Universal doesn’t know that jumping into rebound relationships after a particularly painful breakup is rarely a good idea. After Apple tossed its fall TV lineup off iTunes in August, saying the two companies couldn’t agree on pricing, the broadcast network has been spitefully seeking out distribution deals wherever it can find them: Hulu. [...]
Hulu.com, the News Corp./NBC Universal video service that sounds like it was named by The Web 2.0 Bull—t Generator™, went into private beta today, and while critics continued to snicker at the name, most admitted the ad-supported service was, by and large, pretty decent. ”I am impressed thus far,” wrote BoomTown’s Kara Swisher. “I will, of course, reserve judgment until I get to test-drive it for a while, but in concept and tone and aims–that is, more open than I ever expected the service to be–it is off to a good start.”
Rupert Murdoch is in an unusually generous mood these days, isn’t he? This morning Fox Broadcasting said it would make season-premiere episodes of seven of its TV shows available for free through Apple’s iTunes store. Beginning this week and continuing through the two that follow, the network will offer free downloads of such series [...]
NBC Universal apparently has high expectations for Hulu, its forthcoming joint online video venture with News Corp. So high, in fact, that the company feels comfortable pulling its TV shows off iTunes. According to a report in today’s New York Times, NBC Universal has decided not to renew its contract to sell digital versions of [...]
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12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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