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We now support Hulu.com embedding

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?]

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Comments (14)

Jul 10, 2008
loc ngo said...

go go sachin. when are you guys brining this sweet site to mobile? 3g iphone's coming up ;)

Jul 11, 2008
Andy Roberts said...

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.

Jul 11, 2008
Garry Tan said...

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

Jul 11, 2008

@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.

Jul 11, 2008
Jerry Nicolas said...

dito

Jul 11, 2008
Bill Wilhelm said...

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.

Jul 11, 2008
Andy Roberts said...

"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/

Jul 11, 2008
Bill Wilhelm said...

Ahh! Got it. Good point.

Jul 12, 2008
astros said...

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. :)

Jul 13, 2008
Airway said...

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 ;)

Sep 12, 2008
hypersk said...
Hey, Airway, which proxy do you use to watch Hulu?

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

Sep 12, 2008
Airway said...
Hi hypersk,

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

Oct 22, 2008
Andy Roberts said...
That's not a very polite way of asking Moira! April, how are you doing?
The much nicer Shields sister, Katie
Subject: Re: foot doctor
Give Katie the name of your foot dr.
Subject: foot doctor
do you know of a foot doctor in the city? i have a really painful
pinky toe and i think it's an ingrown nail or something. how was
cleveland?
May 23, 2009
sonia said...
my pichture will not show up on the screen and the commericials do not work at all. will you please help me thank you.

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