I sent an email to Jason Kilar regarding the decision to remove Hulu content from Boxee. Even though their decision was forced by their content partners, their partners need to understand that you can’t keep Hulu’s content caged on “mobile computing devices” forever:
I don’t use Boxee. I have a TiVo.
I love Hulu when I am sitting in front of a computer; however, most of the time I’m not in front of the computer when I want to watch Hulu content. I’m in front of my TV.
Although I can watch, for example, SNL clips in much higher quality on Hulu, I will instead opt to use YouTube on TiVo to watch the same clips because it’s more convenient and the content is where I want it: on my 42″ plasma television.
This is a loss for your partners, who make no money from ads. This is a loss for me, who experiences poor quality content.
Removal from Boxee will only force these users to use a method that remains and that won’t make you any money. In the future, being more stringent over content will only cause users like me to continue to use that best available method where everyone loses.
I hope that your partners will come to understand that fact.
I have read a few articles about how PHP is a perfectly good first language and how it should never be a first. These articles are interesting because my first programming language was PHP† and I have been using it extensively since 2004.
One thing is true: it’s really easy to get started with PHP. Continue Reading “When PHP Actually Is Your First Programming Language” »
I’ve received a great response from the community about my ScrollTabView addon. I’d like to thank all of the visitors and people who have gave their feedback… and especially Eric Miraglia at YUI Blog for mentioning it! You guys rock!
I’ve setup a YUI Addons Trac to be the center for my future YUI development. If you’ve been interested in ScrollTabView, you can use Trac to keep tabs on my development and report problems. As I come up with new stuff, I’ll point my current YUI page over there.
I don’t anticipate developing at a rapid pace; however, subscribing to Trac’s feeds can let you know when I’m making progress!
I’ve recently been tinkering with the excellent Yahoo! UI Library. My first contribution to the community is ScrollTabView, an extension of TabView that uses a scrolling animation to switch between tabs. (Just check out the examples.)
My inspiration was Panic’s Coda site as well as a few others. Now it’s easy to create a similar effect on your site using YUI.
Check out my new YUI addons page to grab the code and view more examples!
Update: I’ve been featured on the official YUI Blog!
Update 2 (May 27): I’ve been featured on Ajaxian!
Continuing with recent Yahoo news, the just-launched Y! Live is a new webcasting community similar to justin.tv or Stickam.
Both Y! Live and Stickam allow you to take part in sharing video as a visitor in a broadcaster’s channel, while justin.tv does not. However, I believe Y! Live’s experience is better than any of those competitors. The Y! Live developer API allows you to go beyond search like justin.tv– you can actually mashup video streams. (Stickam doesn’t even have an API.) The site is billed as a “experimental release” so it’ll be interesting to see how Y! Live will evolve. More on the launch is available on their blog.
I’ll be experimenting with the site by going live when I can, stop by and say hi!
