Now you can send us any link from hulu.com and we'll embed that video into your post for free! Check out Hulu for many great shows from NBC and other networks.
[sample hulu video removed but you get the idea, right?]
go go sachin. when are you guys brining this sweet site to mobile? 3g iphone's coming up ;)
I think this one was a bad choice, or at least premature, look:
"Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States"
That's very bad internet citizenship.
Unfortunately that's a constraint by Hulu, not posterous.
Hulu's CEO is on record saying they're working hard to provide international access once they secure the distribution rights: http://blog.hulu.com/2007/11/9/welcoming-more-beta-testers
@Garry: I understand that that's a constraint by Hulu, but I think that you should work things out so that we poor non US-based people would see nothing at all, and not the nasty notice Andy referred to.
dito
I'd respectfully suggest that Posterous team continue working on new features rather than getting involved in issues far beyond the scope of the business. Hulu is restricting this because of their agreements with content partners and the contractual agreements they have. If you don't want to see the nasty notice - don't use Hulu. Even better - maybe use Posterous to create an online petition or put some pressure on Hulu and it's partners. This issue is a really thorny because of the contractual and copyright issues. Pandora and other sites (unfortunately) have the same issues.
I am thankful to Garry and the Posterus team and am making this comment just to reiterate my support for their hard work and dedication.
"If you don't want to see the nasty notice - don't use Hulu."
I don't use Hulu, it's embedded on the posterous blog.
Andy Roberts
http://distributedresearch.net/blog/
Ahh! Got it. Good point.
Hulu is great, but can you duplicate their "lower lights" feature?
This blinding white light that's on about 90% of all sites on the net is very hard to look at and a lot of monitors are in low light environments, and not in very bright office environments, so they tire the eyes withing a couple of minutes.
So, until posterous has options for custom background colors, lowering the lights (showing the whole screen a transluscent gray when playing a video) is a very useful feature and I'm surprised only Hulu has implemented it.
Thanks and keep up the good work. :)
Doesn't work for my post readers in Germany too, but you can't blame the Posterous team for that restriction made by Hulu.
The Hulu viewer or post ready can bypass that restrictions easily using proxy servers ;)
I've tried a lot, but none of them seem to work, it alwas says "the video is not available" or "check your internet connection"
Thanks
the hint I can give you is a tutorial describing the workaround for Pandora, but it also works for Hulu.
http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~msteven/pandora/
It's in German language only.
I hope my hint was helpful,
Regards,
Airway
