Friday, February 26, 2010

"Technology is the source of our competitive advantage," says Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.


Hulu is another phenomenon that is dominating in today’s industry. It is becoming the new way to watch television. Its free, it’s legal, and it’s online. Some people say Fox and NBC created Hulu to be a YouTube killer! It is design to be a safe place for television. It delivers shows and movies from Fox and NBC Universal; as well as, takes you to programs from every other major network and studio. So people can watch full-length episodes and entire seasons for free. What could possibly be better than that?

I picked this article because I believe that the creation of Hulu is brilliant! I only wished I would have heard of it sooner before I brought ever season of Gossip Girl. Hulu saves people a lot of money and a lot of time. I have the opportunity of choosing whatever I want to watch whenever I want to watch. What I hate about TV shows is that is I miss a particular show that was scheduled to be on at nine pm I may never catch that particular show again. Hulu solves this annoying problem and did I mention its absolutely free! Hulu has a bright future

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-10/mf_hulu?currentPage=2


There is a new huge force in local television around and its name is You Tube. You Tube has created a News Near You feature that senses a person's location and pulls up news video that is relevant to people in that particular area. It is said in time it could fundamentally engineer a local newscast on instant. You Tube says they are helping TV stations by adding a new venue, but TV station disagree; in actually they are only becoming more competition. Therefore most of the YouTube videos near you come from nontraditional sources: radio stations, newspapers, colleges and, in the case of a fledgling San Francisco outfit called VidSF, three friends who despise the local TV diet of fires and homicides. There are many debates about this new feature and whether or not it will knocks local television news out of the competition.

I chose this article because I found it interesting how the competition in media is rapidly growing. I personally think that finding news on YouTube is fantastic. I know someone like me uses You Tube a lot; in fact I visit the site a least once a day. This is very convenient for me and people like me who hardly watch TV.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/business/media/03youtube.html