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Hulu's April Fool Joke: 1996 Web Design

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Visitors to Los Angeles-based video streaming service Hulu Friday were greeted with a surprise "redesign" of the web site, as part of a Hulu April Fool's gag. Hulu's gag website was one of a number of April Fool's efforts by technology firms Friday. READ MORE>>.

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How Laudville Is Bringing Your Entertainment Life Together

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We''re now in beta, and are incorporating services like iTunes, Amazon, and Hulu, and will be incorporating more (this) year. If you look at what Pinterest does for anything design related, it''s not just fashion, it''s not just design, it''s not just DIY, it''s everything. What''s the business model behind this?

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The Future of Television & The Digital Living Room

Both Sides of the Table

That said, Apple will remain a closed system designed to drive media consumption through a closed iTunes system and a take a toll for media distribution. Torso TV - Television was designed for a mass audience in a single country. Trying searching for something on Hulu. And Hulu’s search is actually reasonable.

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Interview with Ilya Pozin, Cofounder of Pluto TV

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I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. Every single TV service online, from Hulu, to Netflix, and on requires people to search and find content, and really makes people work. Other people have tried to put linear television on the Web.

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Beyond the Demo: 2018 Could Be Year for Longer, Profitable VR Content

Xconomy

That year the couple, both trained in design, founded a startup in San Francisco, then called KaleidoscopeVR. René Pinnell says he and his wife Selena Pinnell were “blown away” by the virtual reality projects their friends were creating in 2014, so they looked for an entrepreneurial niche that would allow them to support such artists.

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Why Facebook OpenGraph Will Work and Why To Hate It

Tech Zulu Event

This is a core fundamental function of all web design that deals with “conversions” Ads work this way, shopping carts work this way, and Facebook’s OpenGraph absolutely works this way. It’s far too easy to find Spotify , Hulu , Whatever News Site, and other “fun” applications that exist in the Facebook ecosystem.

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TVSync’s Open API Uses Video and Audio Recognition Across All Four Screens

Tech Zulu Event

There was an inkling of the changes to be when interactive TV services like NetFlix, Hulu and On Demand debuted as frenemies to traditional TV viewing. Hyper contextualized advertising and granular measurements (like AdSense is to the web) will be established for TV. The race to establish the standard is on.