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Hulu Gets Better & Better! Now They Have RSS Feeds
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),
Blockbuster Inc. Has Acquired Movielink LLC
Blockbuster Inc. announced today that they would be acquiring Movielink LLC. Movielink provides customers access thousands of movies that can be rented or purchased online. Movielink is a joint venture between Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer Studios, and Warner Bros.
“Blockbuster is committed to keeping pace with the changing needs of customers by offering them an expanding array of convenient ways to access entertainment content,” stated Jim Keyes, the Blockbuster Chairman and CEO. “Our acquisition of Movielink, with its associated digital content, is the next logical step in our planned transformation of Blockbuster. Now, in addition to the entertainment content we provide through our stores and by mail, we have taken an important step toward being able to make movie downloading conveniently available to computers, portable devices and ultimately to the television at home.”
Blockbuster won’t be changing the operations of Movielink but will be making elements of the service available on blockbuster.com. Movielink was started in 2002.