Hulu is a site designed to bring professional TV and movie content to the web in a legal, ad-supported format. It’s a joint venture of NBC and the News Corporation, with partnerships with many content providers and web services for syndication.
They’ve been in private Beta for months and just officially launched a few weeks ago, and they’ve been getting a lot of attention. The content is still limited (we’re not talking NetFlix here) but there’s an interesting assortment full-length content here, old and new — the entire run of “Arrested Development,” 48 episodes of the old Bob Newhart show, 78 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents,” and other old shows like “Barney Miller,” “Hill Street Blues” and “The Practice.” There are lots of
current shows here, too, with several full episodes and lots of clips.
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March 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Media, Web 2.0, Web Design, Websites
The Boston Phoenix has an interesting article comparing the websites of the Presidential candidates. It’s worth reading, and worth spending some time visiting all of the candidates sites not for the messages but to see how the candidates and their campaign organizations are embracing the web, multimedia and social networking to get those messages across.
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December 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Politics, Web Design, Websites
Has your library been Yelped? Yelp is a community-based directory service with listings for all sorts of businesses and institutions. By “community-based” I mean that this is yet another popular website in which users sign up for accounts and provide all the content — add and
edit listings, add photos, add reviews, etc.
A few of our libraries have listings including a few reviews. The review for Danvers says:
“the library is great and has a nice selection of books. I am addicted to Noblenet.org, where you can order any book from member libraries. It is the greatest innovation.” | Yelp Listing and Review
But my favorite library review is for the Somerville Public Library, which says:
“One thing I have noticed about the Somerville Library is the uniform friendliness and cheerfulness of their staff, a far cry from your stereotypically surly librarian.” | Yelp Listing and Review
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June 15th, 2007 | Posted in Local, Web 2.0, Websites
The Butler University Libraries page has an interesting feature I haven’t seen on other library websites — they have photographs of their librarians with the words ASK A LIBRARIAN on them. As you move around their site, you see these on nearly every page, different librarians each time. Click on the picture, and you go to the Ask a Librarian page with contact information for chat, e-mail and phone.
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March 10th, 2007 | Posted in Websites
