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Reading the comments that followed that article, I find it ridiculous when most comments made are uneducated. I think most Americans and Europeans have never even heard of the race ‘Malay’. If they have, they think Malays are Malaysians. They also think Singapore is a part of China. Yea I’ve met many of those.

I am Singaporean Malay.

Although I am of mix heritage, I was brought up with Malay as my mother tongue and as my culture. And because I am Singaporean, whose culture is very inter racial, I also speak quite a bit of Mandarin. I am fluent in English, Bahasa Melayu and Bahasa Indonesia. I’ve lived in Indonesia for 2 years and I trained Indonesians in strictly Bahasa Indonesia.

So this is my 2 cents worth to all the comments and also the hoo haa about the meaning of HULU.

Bahasa Indonesia is not a dialect of Bahasa Melayu. Both languages have words that are similar but they are not the same. The Malays and Indonesians might not necessarily understand one another unless otherwise been exposed to the other language quite frequently.

And there is no such thing as the Chinese language. There is Mandarin, there is Teochew or Hokkien or Cantonese etc… those are languages of the Chinese (all these languages spoken in Singapore btw). When people say ‘hulu means snoring in chinese’… it is utterly ridiculous because there is no such thing as Chinese language.

HULU does mean BUTT in either Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Indonesia. However, there are lots of dialects in Indonesia. I don’t know if it could mean ‘butt’ in any Indonesian dialect (there are tons: Javanese, Sundanese, Minang, Boyanese, Batak etc etc) but to reiterate…. it certainly does not mean ‘butt’ in Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Indonesia.

‘ke hulu’ means to go upstream. just that.

‘butt’ in malay: bontot, punggong, pantat.

However ‘pantat’ to the Malays in Malaysia means ‘vagina’.

So yea go figure.

We have an expression in Malay: “ada apa pada sebuah nama”. It means “what is there to a name”.

So yea.

Yeah, but put them all together and they still don’t add up to a fraction of the traffic of the pirated stuff on YouTube: the Daily Show, Colbert Report, music videos, movie outtakes. Not to mention mashups of copyrighted content.

I think that the larger, long-term issue at play is the type of content that advertisers will be willing to stand behind and advertise before, after, and in. There is already good evidence that advertisers will flock toward professionally-produced content over UG (see Crackle’s recent upswing after abandonging UG content). The definition of professionally-produced is certain to change with declining costs of producing video, but there will still be a wide chasm between someone with a high quality HD camera and editing software and UG-pet-trick-home-videos tossed up on YouTube.

This is not a religious debate about UG content vs. studio produced content. I think that those who drive the argument to that level are missing the nuances of how quality entertainment will be developed in the future. There is democratization happening in content production, but it must happen in a manner that is rational, reasonable, and ultimately attractive to advertisers.

“Film directors Steve Spielberg and Ron Howard are joining forces to create entertainment exclusively for the Web. The new company, POP.com, has $50 million seed money from high-tech entrepreneur Paul Allen, who will own 50% of the company.

“POP.com plans to trade with various movie stars, exchanging an ownership stake for their participation. Which could be very valuable down the road, as POP.com proceeds toward an initial public offering.”

NBCU Chief: Expect Failure From Hulu

And what are they watching on YouTube? Southpark snippets? Simpson’s snippets? The Daily show? Movie trailers?

Saying that YouTube and other sights are so large because of user generated content just doesn’t make sense as most people I know watch professionally produced content on Youtube — from the good parts of Saturday Night Live to the bad parts of Britney Spears’ recent VMA performance. Just sayin.

I think the guy has a point saying that people prefer professionally produced content in the end, they just don’t prefer it in front of the TV served with a side order of ads as much as they used to…

But what the gentleman said reveals the ignorance of the leadership of NBC (and old media in general) in that they still think this is a “professionally produced glitzy shows versus amateurish user-generated videos” situation. Sad that they still have this attitude as the broadband culture explodes, and people find out they don’t have to reach for their TV remotes to get entertainment any more.

I used to work with these TV/Movie studio heads, and let me be the first one to say these guys do work hard to do what they are hired to do — to sign up Hollywood’s hottest talents. Prior to 2005, there was no such thing as YouTube, and these guys could go home happy every night thinking they had just gotten Tom Cruise to inch closer to signing on the bottom line for their latest blockbuster franchise. Flash forward to 2007, they go home, and their children and grandmas are telling them that they are spending hours on YouTube, instead of watching TVs or going out to the movies. Some of these smart MBAs or law school graduates might even sign on to YouTube to find out what all the fuss is about. I bet most of them got frustrated real quick, and decided that the solution to this problem is to hire some “talents”.

Thus, “Hulu’ was born. And we thank them for providing comedic materials in blogosphere.

what does it really mean?(i’m not a english-speaking man,i want to know what he wanted to express)”

He means that youtube and others are successful, at least in part, due to their user generated content. In other words, he is implying the executive has empirically been proven wrong as many user generated video sites have been successful.

what does it really mean?(i’m not a english-speaking man,i want to know what he wanted to express)

No body is going to download rerun shows… Trust people on this… They are not going to waste their time download videos and buy more HD space. Remember the old VCR. There’s no place to put tapes on shelf. They threw junks away. People perfer to watch TV. Because FPS is much better and easy to change channels after commercial break.

I remember NBC launch NBCi commercial. That product was commercial failure. No one go there. you scaring people every time you launch newly beta or product. How many people go NBC.com?

people like NBC world news than websites.

NBC was also at MIXX a few blocks away.

Very frustrating having both expos on the same days. Hope they don’t make the mistake next year

Talk about competition