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Hulu adds profile page for notes, video sharing

updated 08:45 pm EDT, Sun March 15, 2009

Hulu Friends


To Promote Hulu.com’s one-year anniversary, the company has announced a new social-networking feature, Hulu Friends. The portal is designed to help users communicate with each other through a media browser client, with customized profile pages similar to that of Facebook. The new page provides an area for people to connect with each other, share videos, track viewed content and leave notes. In addition, Hulu Friends allows integration with Facebook, MySpace, Digg, and Del.icio.us, along with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail.

According to Hulu’s CEO, the new features are meant to encourage increased viewing, while allowing advertisers to improve ad targeting by tracking what the user is watching.


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  1. LenE

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    03/15, 11:28pm | report spam | Reply |

    s**** U Boxee!

    It now makes sense. Hulu decided to block Boxee clients, because they wanted to replicate and more importantly control the social features. Increased viewing, but only through Hulu, and its contracted partners.

  1. testudo

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    03/16, 08:10am | report spam | Reply |

    what????

    Wait. You mean the people spending the money to put up and manage the Hulu want to control how people use it?

    The next thing you know, Apple will insist that only iTunes connects to the iTMS. Or only authorized companies can put applications on its phones. Or make headphones for their new jack.

  1. LenE

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    03/16, 12:57pm | report spam | Reply |

    This is different

    I'm just noting the reason that Hulu is discriminating against Boxee, but not other browsers of their content. You need a web browser to get to their portal. You can embed their content on another page, and they see a web browser, just like if you visit their portal.

    Unliek the iTMS, Hulu is not providing their own browser. Instead, it is relying on whatever browser you have, except if that browser happens to be Boxee.

  1. testudo

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    03/16, 02:44pm | report spam | Reply |

    Not different

    It isn't that different. Hulu has a service, which, as you stated, they have contracted partners with. Why should they allow Boxee to just come in and take their efforts to use to push their own product?

    And you get into concerns over copyright. If they don't go after boxee, what's to stop Apple from putting in hooks directly into the AppleTV. Then they'd be using Hulu to sell the AppleTV, and Hulu gets nothing in return.

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