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 recently started a new job and relocated from the midwest to California. I’ve been extremely busy in the last few weeks but I’m finally starting to get settled.
Check out my photos of my first few days in CA, a weekend in SF ice skating and eating food, and a weekend at Camp Yahoo! 2008 playing Rock Band.
I didn’t realize until after the movers left that my Mac mini, which hosts my YUI addons, was packed up with everything else. Today I finally have a working internet connection in my apartment and my Mac mini is happily serving up my YUI addons Trac, SVN and downloads again!
Check out the screenshots of TripLog/1040, The Athlete’s Calculator, and Handy Randy, new iPhone applications from PalmOS developer Stevens Creek Software. Via Gruber, who points out that this really isn’t a joke.
I was flipping channels today when I came across this logo for newly rebranded WGN America (formerly “Superstation WGN”). What’s odd is that they started out with a good logo, rebranded with a worse logo, and have now come to his: a dominating artsy pair of eyes staring at you with the incorporated slogan: “TV You Can’t Ignore.” Brand New has the scoop:
Lee Abrams, chief innovation officer of WGN America’s parent company Tribune Broadcasting Company, stated the following craziness: “[the new brand would] look and sound… like nothing else out there.” [...]
The logo was designed in-house as we learn from this scary sentence in the MediaWeek link above: “In an earlier memo, Abrams said that he had sent WGN’s creative director ‘a few Pink Floyd albums’ after she had turned in some uninspired art/voiceovers.”
Yikes. The good news is that I couldn’t ignore it.
