Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Turns out everybody likes to produce content and take part in the “conversation.&# Massive uptake of user-generated content including blogs (e.g. People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. Then came blogs.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The formation of Hulu was defensive – designed to stop another YouTube or Napster from emerging and causing disruption to the TV industry. To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. Here is my case: 1.

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Hulu Technical Review Content Advertising 292

Jason Nazar

JUNE 18, 2009

Get users immediately into valuable content that engages them in the site: featured video, music, news; video, popular trending items in my network. Work with the studios to have premium Hulu-ish content prominently branded and for sale. The user generated content on MySpace is user profiles, updates, blogs and pictures. .

Development Team Review 76

Development Team Review Content Sites eHow 76

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2010

They point to YouTube as the big gorilla, but also social networking with video (Bebo), and video job sites (VisualCV). One video blog (now called vlog) on YouTube has over two million subscribers. Video ad network BrightRoll claimed profitability last year, but took a $10M third round of financing just recently.

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Hulu Social Network Blogging Netflix 84