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NBC and News Corp name their YouTube competitor Hulu
NBC and News Corp are getting ready to answer an age old question: do people really go to YouTube to watch user-uploaded videos of cats doing stupid things or to watch illegally uploaded snippets of The Colbert Report?The two networks are teaming up to launch a YouTube competitor that will focus primarily on professional content including content from NBC and News Corp shows. Today, the new site got a name: Hulu. As an acronym, it doesn't seem to stand for anything, but it's "short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and rhymes with itself." Because that's what we've been looking for in an online video site.
Hulu is currently accepting e-mail addresses of anyone interested in signing up for a private beta, which is set to launch in October.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Gardiner Westbound said 10:06PM on 8-29-2007
Every time Microsoft bullies the software and user communities more of us start looking at alternatives to escape the MS crap and nonsense.
In the last little while I have switched my second computer to Linux and bought a Mac for home.
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waslittle4 said 1:06PM on 8-30-2007
It will never work, YouTube is very much mainstream, they will just look like a clone, there are other sites like Brightcove and MYSpace. Damn, Newscorp already owns myspace. That's just greed and envy. YouTube gives hope to the small businesses, mom and pop businesses and they were very successful @ covering the democratic and republican debates. Tough for Fox and NBC, it is not the publics fault that you all invest in untalented and worthless shows like 30 rock(flop) and garbage like Family Guy and boring ass movies and worthless celebrities.
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