Warren Buffet’s advice was the best.
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[1] Yahoo! Blog: Lemme give you a little advice by Nicki Dugan
Hulu is proving more and more everyday that they are not Clown Co. Hulu has just made a solid move for catering to those that prefer having RSS aggregation websites as their browser homepage.
Now Hulu has a way to add RSS feeds for several categories of videos on their site including: Recently Added Videos, Recently Added Shows, Highest Rated Videos, Most Popular Videos, Most Popular Videos This Week, Most Popular Videos This Month, Most Popular Videos All Time, Soon-To-Expire Videos. Personally I’m going to take every one of these RSS feeds and add them to a separate tab on my current homepage, Netvibes.
There is also an Add Video check box that allows Hulu to embed the video within the RSS feed aggregation box. This feature is not quite supported yet, but I’m sure it’s a work-in-progress.
What makes these RSS feeds interesting is that Feedburner powers them. Feedburner is owned by Google and Google owns YouTube, a Hulu competitor. Oh, the irony. No matter what you do on the web, it somehow connects to Google in some sort of degree. Just like all of us are six degrees from Kevin Bacon, every Google competitor is 2 degrees away from Google.
Another interesting feature of Hulu is the ability to embed videos into social networks. This will surely drive additional hits to Hulu. Hulu is currently ranked 3,000 or so on Alexa and growing. Below is a screen shot of Hulu in my Netvibes.
Great feature, keep it up Hulu team.
Hulu’s content is provided by Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX) through NBC and warner Bros., General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) through NBC, MGM Mirage (NYSE:MGM), Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE), and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (NYSE:LGF),
I believe what makes ClubPenguin (CP) a great company is that it lives up to its purpose: to be an online world for kids where they could safely play games, have fun and interact [Source: About CP]. Although I do not use the website myself, I do have cousins that are about 10 years younger than myself that are proactive on the site. And they seem to enjoy the safe environment and the games.
When I read the news that Club Penguin may be getting acquired for $450 million by Sony Corporation on PaidContent, I can’t help but feel that this is definetely a company that deserves it. The site is only funded by subscriptions and not advertising. And also Sony would be able to leverage the content on Club Penguin for its consoles.
Club Penguin is based in Canada. More specifically in Kelowna, British Columbia which is about four hours east of Vancouver by car. The company was launched in October 2005 and had 4.5 million visitors last March. Club Penguin was developed by New Horizon Interactive. This past April, Club Penguin earned the prestigous award for the BBB Kid’s Privacy Seal of Approval. Less than a dozen other companies have earned this right.
If and when the acquisition completes, I’ll ensure to write about it.
