I’ve realized that yesterday I wrote about how to watch Hulu and listen to Pandora if you are outside the US and I haven’t explained what they are and how they became around.
The Hulu venture was announced in March 2007, with AOL, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo! planned as “initial distribution partners”. The name Hulu was chosen in late August 2007, when the website went live, with an announcement only and no content. It invited users to leave their email addresses for the upcoming beta test. In October, Hulu began the private beta testing by invitation, and allowed users to invite friends. Hulu launched for public access in the United States on March 12, 2008.
Hulu is a joint venture of NBC Universal and News Corp, with funding by Providence Equity Partners, which made a USD$100 million equity investment and holds a 10% stake.
The name Hulu comes from a Mandarin Chinese proverb (宝葫芦), in which it means holder of precious things.[8] Literally, it refers (in Chinese) to the calabash gourd.[9
Hulu offers commerical-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, FOX and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States. In addition to NBC and FOX programs, Hulu carries shows from other networks such as Comedy Central, PBS, USA Network, Bravo, Fuel TV, FX, SPEED Channel, Sci Fi, Style, Sundance, E!, G4, Versus, Noggin TV, Nick Jr., PBS KIDS Sprout, Disney Channel and Oxygen.
Pandora is an automated music recommendation and Internet radio service created by the Music Genome Project. Users enter a song or artist that they enjoy, and the service responds by playing selections that are musically similar. Users provide feedback on approval or disapproval — which Pandora takes into account for future selections.
So download HotSpot Shield and got to Hulu.com and pandora.com!
best,
pol
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