Hulu rolls out new social tools
Last March NBC Universal and News Corporation announced a joint venture resulted Online video site Hulu, a direct competitor to YouTube. Online video site. Hulu has online social networking features, allowing users to clip videos, or parts of videos, from the site for posting in outside online communities.
Hulu provides video in Flash Video format in a higher resolution than YouTube and other streaming video on the web, but lower than standard-definition television. For users, the service is free and ad-supported, with optional registration. Video downloading for offline viewing is not yet supported. Hulu also provides web syndication services for companies.
When you click on a Hulu video, you should notice a new “Share” button on the left side of the video player. Click it and you should see links to MySpace, Facebook, Digg, Windows live, del.icio.us, reddit, StumbleUpon, and Google Bookmarks. Some of these buttons will let you submit a site for review, while others will let you embed a video. For example, the Digg button lets you submit the video to Digg for voting purposes, while the Facebook button lets you add a video to your profile that visitors can view on your Facebook page.
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