Hulu Goes Live - Voozoo Does Movie Clips for Facebook - Six Apart and Wordpress At War - Free Line Report 3.12.08
Paramount and FanRocket are combining forces to create VooZoo, a web application that lets you grab movie clips and send them to your friends on Facebook. These will be short clips, usually lasting from several seconds to a full minute, And below each clip a small button appears that allows the viewer to purchase a DVD of the movie.
The star of last year’s South by Southwest Conference on technology was Twitter, the microblogging service. This year, a website called Sched.org stole the show. It’s a calendaring application and it showed its real power by creating a schedule for the conference for attendees to synch up and use. Let’s hope other conferences get the idea and create similar calendars — it makes the experience of going to conferences — and figuring out where to be and when — a lot easier — especially the after parties
MyVox is about to make a big splash when it opens its phone-to-web API to the public this week. This system lets you create a voice message using your cellphone, and then put it on Google Maps, Facebook or any web page you wish. It’s free to use — the only cost of the service is listening to a small advertisement while you’re on hold.
Six Apart and Wordpress are at it again — feuding across blogs and twitter, trying to get users to switch from one platform to another. What started it this time? Looks like the creator of Six Apart casually remarked in a blog that maybe users should try switching to his platform rather than upgrading to the new version Wordpress. This sparked angry remarks from both camps. Man, people sure take their blogging platform allegiances seriously.
And today is the day that Hulu, the video web site founded by Fox and NBC Universal, finally goes live. That’s right — no more private beta. And the news gets even better — not only can you watch your favorite NBC and Fox shows for free, anytime, but they have added support from Warner Brothers, Lionsgate, the NBA, NHL and twenty other content providers.











Thanks for the heads up on Myvox, Brad! I think that it has real potential to use in a variety of markets. I think Gen Y and younger folks will use the heck out of this thing.
I have Voozoo and it’s cool. There are no ads, just the “Buy DVD” button at the end. The clip plays almost right away and looks good. They just need more movies, but they *say* they’re getting more all the time.
Greetings!
Just to let everyone know that I invented VooZoo in 2001 and I am surprised to find out that another company as big and prestigious as Paramount is trying to use it without my consent. I am investigating copyright infringement issues, any help and advice is most welcome.