Still looking for that Hulu invite? They decided to offer 2500 public invites through selected blogs. Get them while you can. They are going fast…
TechCrunch - Already ran out
GigaOm - 1766 left as of posting
ReadWriteWeb - 2207 left as of posting
Ars Technica - All 2500 still available as of posting
The above list ranks the mega bloggers in order of douchbaggy-ness.
Update: Mashable also was graced with their very own 2500 invites.
Anyone listened to the latest TWIT? I know, I know, who the hell listens to this circle jerk podcast anymore… I was desperate! OK?! It was at least comical when Web 2.0 douchbag Jason Calacanis called those trippy distorted letters on registration pages ‘CATCH-PA’s. Skip to 8:24 to hear the Sequoia Capital golden boy create podcasting history.
BTW, the guys at the online backup startup Mozy can’t be too thrill neither when the Bulldog referred to them as ‘Moxy’. (Skip to 45:30).
Every once in awhile I get one of those Emails proposing some kind of gasoline boycott day when we are suppose to stay away from the pump. I guess its well and good and god knows how well these propositions do against the rising oil prices. All it seems to do is for the gas stations to offset the sales of gasoline to the days prior and after. If not enough people participate in this campaign, the financial impact is likely undetectable by the oil companies.
I was just thinking the other day while driving on the freeway. If we could get a small percentage of the drivers to just follow the speed limit for a day, it would probably make a much bigger impact. Imagine 1 of every 20 cars on the freeway driving 55 mph. It would probably slow the entire flow of traffic down to a much more fuel efficient speed and create a noticeable drop in gas consumption. This effect wouldn’t just cause people to shift their gas purchases to another day but actually decrease the demand for the days surrounding it. As long as the assholes on the streets can manage their road rage for a day then we might have something worth thinking about…
A few days ago I posted a story about Hulu and how you can embed their videos in your own blog.
I also noticed one little thing that there were more videos available if you just change the numeric id in the embed code. That led me to create a page on Premity.com, a company I started with a couple of other dudes.
A couple of people noticed the page and we even got a call from Nat Worden of TheStreet.com inquiring about our (un)association with the video startup currently it private beta. Little did we know the phone call was an interview for a post on TheStreet.com and made us out to be hackers trying to use their service to garner free publicity.
In reality, this ‘hack’ is not much of a hack at all. Since Hulu allows embedding of their videos outside of their site, even beta testers need to be able to copy and paste the embed code to their destination of choice. That meant anyone who wanted to embed the code onto their blog was free to do so. It just so happens that the video IDs are in ascending numerical order so I just made a page that randomly picks a number out of all of their currently available videos and displays the next 4.
It really is a pretty simple implementation of what Hulu intended for their beta users to be able to do so I would not really consider this a compromise at all of their beta service.
But it is a free world, so say what you will…
A couple sites who noticed our page:
Hulu’s Code Quickly Cracked
Premity Hijacks Hulu
I want a beta invite to Hulu
Private Beta Not So Private: Ad-Free Hulu Clips Disseminated
You would think after 3 months of working on a debut episode of Mahalo Daily, they would have actually put something together that’s worth watching. Instead, all they were able to muster is a ‘trailer’ to the upcoming premiere. It is a really lame one at that. Completely lacks creativity and originality. After months of work, they resorted to making a parody video of some of the most popular video podcasts. It is a huge cop-out move to get cheap laughs. I’m not even gonna post any links to the video to spare you the torture. For the masochists out there, I’m sure you will have no problems Googling it yourself…