Hulu, the free hi-def streaming website for many television shows is now going to let countries other than the US view their videos, starting with Australia, The United Kingdom and Canada.
Check out our list for the top 25 video games forLinux. Even if you don’t use Linux you can still play most of these games on Windows or Mac.
AlertThingy is a new Adobe Air application that hooks into FriendFeed. It can run on any operating system and pulls in a constant stream of your FriendFeed data.
There is a new free application called CommentKahuna that lets you find any WordPress blog that is relevant to your website that doesn’t use the NoFollow attribute.
To save time, a short disclaimer. None of the following Free Tips, Tools and Resources are April Fool’s jokes. They’re just what we do every day here – telling you about people and companies who are Moving the Free Line.
YouTube has recently dropped a new tool into user’s laps called YouTube Insight, which allows you to see who viewed their videos and when and what links they followed to find the video in the first place. So far the response to the new tool has been underwhelming. The actual results are really just too broad for most users to find useful, and even though the geographic information is interesting, it doesn’t shed much light on how a video becomes popular or why. But the idea is pretty cool and the current iteration is a good start.
Next, both CBS and Huluare trying the waters with Hi-Def streaming, offering on demand free videos of television shows in high quality. So far, both offer good quality definition at a very fast speed, even though very few shows are available just yet. CBS’s offering is in beta and requires a special plug in for your web browser. You can get the link to the specifics in this Techcrunch article.
And a new video streaming site called Omnisio gives you the ability to take clips of your favorite videos and then easily stitch and edit them together online to create fun mashups to share with their friends. The interface is pretty simple, and even though this will never replace a high-profile, high-cost video editor like Adobe Premier, it will allow any non-tech user mix and match their favorite clips into funny and interesting ways. Look for more of this online editing functionality as we go along.
If you like to listen to streaming music online and have always wanted the ability to add these songs into your own playlist on your computer or iPod, look no further than the free music player Songbird. They just released a new stable download that allows you to browse a music collection on music blogs or streaming radio stations and then save them to your playlist, download them to your hard drive, or buy them from an online store.
And today’s Moving the Free Line Award goes to South Park creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker. They decided to start offering every episode of their show online — for free. They said, and I quote, “We got really sick of having to download our own show illegally all the time. So we gave ourselves a legal alternative.” Hey guys, that makes three of us – so thanks for Moving the Free Line!
Paramount and FanRocketare 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 Wordpressare 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.
Six Apart跟Wordpress之间又生是非,为博客跟twitter争论不休,都劝说另一方的用户转到自己这边来。这回怎么引起的?看起来是Six Apart的创立人在自己的博客里说也许用户们可以试试他的平台而不是升级新版本的Wordpress。这个导火线马上引起双方不满。我说,人们当然会为自己喜欢的平台说好话。
The video streaming website Hulu, a joint project created by Fox and NBC, plans to lift its veil of secrecy this month and let the world see the future of television, online. The videos will be television shows aired previously, supported completely by ads. A sneak preview last October left a big impression on users, wowing even the most skeptical pundits.
Well it looks like Yahoo isn’t the only website that Microsoft wants to buy. Apparently, both Microsoft and Google are making bids for the user generated news site, Digg.com. The founder of Digg says these claims are not true, but Michael Arrington of TechCrunch says his inside source still stands behind his earlier statement.
Thunderbird, a free email client, is getting its third release next month. This email application will get a major overhaul, including the addition of calendar support, instant messaging, and better searching.
Google Operating System is a great blog that gives you lots of tips and tricks for using all of Google’s web applications. Do you need to add page numbers to Google Docs? Want to create filters for Google Reader? Well, Google Operating System shows you how, and does so in a way that’s easy to follow and fun to read.
Do you have a great idea and want to raise some money to fund it? Fundable might be right up your alley. In about a minute or so you can create a Fundable collection that allows you to gather money simply and easily to finance any project — from a short film to a snowboarding trip. Check it out at fundable.com.