Filed under: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: Boxee, Hulu, Joost, Podcast, Social network service, TechCrunch, TV.com, YouTube
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Techcrunch recently wrote that Joost still had a heartbeat despite the fact they made the wrong bet years ago by underestimating the power of the web for watching videos. They finally switched to Flash late last year, giving up on P2P, and introduced some social networking features around the video viewing experience to battle established players like Hulu, TV.com and YouTube. Now it’s taking a step beyond that by forming an alliance with Europe’s leading social networking service, Belgium-based Netlog
, theoretically expanding its reach to 40 million people. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/05/joost-continues-fight-for-relevancy-teams-up-with-social-network-netlog 3/5)
It’s still hard for me to take Joost seriously. A clusterf@#$ck of content that no one is really interested in now that we have Hulu…
Hulu really seems to be drawing a line in the sand for third-party developers. After pulling its content from the popular Boxee content portal, Hulu as now disabled video playback on the open source client-based desktop app MyMediaPlayer2, according to an open letter from developer Paul Yanez, who claims Hulu was disabled just 4 hours after the app was profiled in TechCrunch. The Adobe Air-based application, which utilized Hulu’s RSS feeds to pull a selection of movies and TV shows from Hulu with the ads attached, set out to expand Hulu’s availability to multiple OS’s, media players and devices while added increased functionality such as an integration with Twitter enabling micro-blogging during full-episode streaming. (Cynopsis 3/5)
The podcasting audience continues to grow at a healthy clip according to the latest eMarketer figures. As a percentage of internet users, podcast downloaders will grow from 9% in 2008 to 17% in 2013 to 37.6 million users. The number goes up significantly when cross-referenced with users who make purchases on the internet according to a PriceGrabber survey, which found that 50% of online buyers also listened to podcasts. (Cynopsis 3/5)
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