I was wondering when the big TV/Movie media companies were going to get smart about internet delivery of material.  They have been getting better over the years, but you would have to go to their individual pages like ABC.com or NBC.com and have limited choices for viewing.  Enter hulu.com, evidently NBC-Universal and News Corp put this thing together (or at least funded it initially and provided content) and off it went.  It started in private beta last October and went public in March.  I first heard of it a couple of days ago.  The site offers a good alternative to grainy pirated clips of shows that you find on youtube and allows a central site for full length movies, tv shows, and clips of both.  You can embed the shit too (see below).  I never thought I would pimp for the MSM, but fuckit, the site makes sense, you just have to sit through some short comercials every once and a while, but they are bearable for an otherwise free service.

Here’s the best part about embedding, and I’ve been looking for this simple functionality forever. You can very easily and intuitively control the start and stop time of the embedded content. Very cool feature.

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