Comments on: New Widgets At Hulu; We Talk To CTO Eric Feng

By: Hulu Launches All Kinds Of Stuff To Keep You Defocused On Joost

Hulu Launches All Kinds Of Stuff To Keep You Defocused On Joost — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:10:41 +0000

[...] Click here to watch a recent video interview with Hulu CTO Eric Feng. CrunchBase Information hulu Joost Information provided by CrunchBase techcrunch508:http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/23/hulu-launches-all-kinds-of-stuff-to-keep-you-defocused-on-joost/ Previous Post Leave a ReplyClick here to cancel your reply. [...]

By: Dr. Horrible Not So Horrible, And It’s Now On Hulu (Update: And International) | NewsMeToday

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:52:50 +0000

[...] the whole thing below, assuming you are in the U.S. And if you missed it, watch our interview with Hulu CTO Eric Feng from last [...]

By: Dr. Horrible Not So Horrible, And It’s Now On Hulu (Update: And International) | NewsMeToday

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:52:50 +0000

[...] the whole thing below, assuming you are in the U.S. And if you missed it, watch our interview with Hulu CTO Eric Feng from last [...]

By: Andrew Fielding

Andrew Fielding — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:55:33 +0000

Great interview and very informative stuff. I really liked this, I hope you do more interviews like this with other startups. Eric really seems like a standup guy too, too bad he used to work for Microsoft.

By: Dr. Horrible Not So Horrible, And It’s Now On Hulu

Dr. Horrible Not So Horrible, And It’s Now On Hulu — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:18:20 +0000

[...] the whole thing below, assuming you are in the U.S. And if you missed it, watch our interview with Hulu CTO Eric Feng from last [...]

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:02:39 +0000

Heh.. Apple's guidelines state:

A widget is not simply a miniaturized version of a standard application window. Avoid making your widget look crowded by displaying only the controls that are essential to the task

Guess they missed that. I agree with what you are saying. Perhaps a player where options can be configured either on the back or with extra panels that come and go would have been more appropriate. Something like Epicurious's Dashboard Widget which has a lot of options, but a relatively simple footprint. It looks like they just ported the same widget over to as many different environments as they could. They didn't even take the time to make the Dashboard icon look nice!

By: Tuscani

Tuscani — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:51:54 +0000

Kudos for Hulu for making an OS X widget. But, it's too bad that they didn't follow the Apple Human Interface Guidelines when they made it. Widgets just look ugly when they don't have the Aqua effect and OS X users are less likely to put a widget on their Dashboard when it clashes with the interface like Hulu's does.

By: Widgets added to Buzzword Bingo | Sazbean

Widgets added to Buzzword Bingo | Sazbean — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:25:06 +0000

[...] boss just asked me to look into this Techcrunch interview with Eric Feng, CTO of Hulu announcing embeddable widgets for their online media site. Must be a [...]

By: ScribeMedia.Org | Of Hulu, Ads and User Experience

ScribeMedia.Org | Of Hulu, Ads and User Experience — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:21:08 +0000

[...] relentless and hard to resist. As Feng acknowledges in the video — there’s another of him on TechCrunch today, and both videos are due to Hulu’s newly launched widgets — the ads at this point are [...]

By: Lucius Kern

Lucius Kern — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:39:43 +0000

hulu is the best thing that to happen in the video online streaming world.

no need to search on those hack-torrant sites.

I watch hulu movies and shows anytime i can.

By: Hulu raises the bar again, releases 4 awesome Video Badge Widgets | Widgets Lab

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:07:10 +0000

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By: Nowe widgety w HULU

Nowe widgety w HULU — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:49:19 +0000

[...] na której można oglądać seriale, filmy i inne programy TV od ponad 50 dostawców. Jak podaje TechCrunch od wczoraj dostępne są widgety umożliwiające publikowanie treści z Hulu na swojej stronie. [...]

By: Jackson

Jackson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:58:13 +0000

Well, it definitely is better than YouTube - the only complaint I have is with the distribution and not with Hulu itself but with NBC, the content owner. While they want to drive traffic to their own website (Hulu), there is no need to remove the content from other distribution systems, such as iTunes. As this articles says, "by eliminating legitimate ways of getting their content, distributors are simply losing sales and forcing consumers who may otherwise pay for their content to go to illegal methods of downloading it. "

By: HmmConvenient

HmmConvenient — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:16:52 +0000

Hoba,

It’s not just big media execs that make this call… show producers/ creators control the rights for their assets. Just give Dick Wolfe a google… he has been aggressively holding back Law and Order from the web for years now; NBC can do nothing about it.

By: Terence Huynh

Terence Huynh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:59:47 +0000

You can watch The Daily Show outside from the US perfectly fine. My internet, however, sucks.

Terence
http://techgeek.com.au

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:51:02 +0000

I am love HULU!

By: Hoba

Hoba — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:11:44 +0000

Yes, I hate that, too.

The execs cry “bittorrent” and on the other hand they are doing Geodiscrimination.

(a term that I like to use whenever an Internet service is only available for a specific region or country)

By: Vezquex

Vezquex — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:06:36 +0000

This is worthless. Instead of playing the video, it links to a page where you can watch it.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:05:17 +0000

trilogy alumni are everywhere…

By: Driftwood

Driftwood — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:01:41 +0000

Usually things like this are US only because of copyright issues.

By: Tech Blogger

Tech Blogger — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:30:49 +0000

Why its not available outside US??

By: Tony E

Tony E — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:03:15 +0000

Nice interview, those Hulu widgets look great. Now, if I could just be able to use them in other countries. It does seem like Eric is determined to make it happen.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:59:51 +0000

It may just be my browser, but that widget definitely seems to cause the loading of the site to stutter.

By: TL

TL — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:52:21 +0000

The embeddable Hulu widget doesn’t appear to play video unless you redirect to their website. In other words they don’t play inside the widget.

TL – http://tinyurl.com/wownews

By: Brady Brim-DeForest

Brady Brim-DeForest — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:23:34 +0000

The embeddable widgets are great news…