blog.hulu.com - 3/12/2009
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At 1:46 a.m. on this day last year, the Hulu service exited beta and was made broadly available in the US. While the Hulu team is going to gather around the taco truck later today and offer a toast or two, we thought it might be fun to also share some stats and photos of our first year with ...
online.wsj.com - 3/12/2009
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online.wsj.com —
The Internet-video site Hulu is adding social-networking functions
in hopes of building user loyalty and mining data...
to attract more advertisers. Hulu Friends, to be launched Thursday, includes features much like Facebook's, such as the ability for ...
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Hulu Embraces Social Networking
adage.com - 3/12/2009
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adage.com —
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- One year after coming
out of private beta, Hulu crossed a significant milestone:...
By one measure it's now the No. 2 video site in the U.S. behind YouTube, and the biggest purveyor of professional video on the web.
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Hulu Now No. 2 Online-Video Site, Behind YouTube
hulu.com - 3/12/2009
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hulu.com —
Make your watching videos more social by sharing
your activities on Hulu with your friends. When you...
have a Hulu account, you can connect to your friends through Hulu Friends. It allows you to see what your friends are watching, share new videos among ...
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Hulu: About - Get Connected
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Hulu turns one, adds social features
Download Squad —
... Online video site Hulu opened its doors to the public (in the US, anyway) a year ago today. Since then, Hulu says its video library has grown 333 percent from 12,000 videos to 40,000 videos. It'd take you 7,1000 hours to watch it all. The site now has 130 content partners, which is more than twice as many as it had a year go. And the number of advertising partners has nearly quintupled. ...
Hulu unveils social tools, aims for Internet TV domination
Ars Technica —
... Hulu on Thursday celebrated its one-year launch anniversary on its blog. While the post was full of impressive statistics and checked-off milestones, there was no mention of a new social networking aspect that has quietly been added to the site. The NBC-FOX joint venture now offers a handful of social features that may explain in part why it ...
Hulu Adds Social Networking, Rockets to No. 2
Today @ PC World —
[image] Hulu is celebrating its first year on the Web , and everybody is invited. A new feature on Hulu's Web site was launched yesterday -- brilliantly named Hulu Friends -- that integrates social networking tools alongside the site's expansive video content. You can now invite friends through your Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo Mail accounts, or tap into the vast friend resources of MySpace and Facebook to lure buddies onto couches for quality TV viewing. You can share videos and leave notes on other user accounts. Using a newsfeed similar to Facebook's, ...
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