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• Hulu debuts. There goes your work day.

  Posted Mar 12 2008, 12:17 PM by Kim Peterson
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  Filed under: Google, News Corp., online video, YouTube, GE
  Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money

  

  I've been spending way too much time on Hulu, the new video joint venture from News Corp. and General Electric's NBC Universal that opened to the public today. Now before you gag on word of yet another video site, I dare you to visit Hulu and not get sucked in. It's that easy, and it has set the standard for watching television shows and movies online.

  Hulu has full-length streaming episodes from around 250 television series, including "Arrested Development" and "Prison Break." So far, it has 100 films. That's not enough content to make it the be all and end all of video sites, but it's a good start. What makes Hulu stand out in a crowded field is its design and ease of use. No wonder the site has been getting so many raves.

  Shares of News Corp. and General Electric rose slightly more than a percentage point today.   Read More...

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• Social networks, video-sharing sites losing their promise

  Posted Feb 05 2008, 02:59 PM by Douglas McIntyre
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  Filed under: Google, AOL, Yahoo, YouTube, MySpace
  Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money

  A look at News Corp earnings shows that the "other" revenue and profit line, which is mostly its online service MySpace, only had an operating profit of $23 million. MySpace is one of the largest websites in the world. That can't be good for the value of social networks. So far, there is not a lot of evidence that the universe's largest video-sharing site, YouTube, is bringing in much money for Google.

  According to The Wall Street Journal, an "issue is advertiser comfort with having their ads displayed alongside less-predictable content."

  Predictability is not the entire problem. Social networks and video-sharing sites are a maze of unrelated content of questionable quality. Sites like MySpace have a large portion of their members who are weirdos and agoraphobics. Advertisers who spend any times on these sites know that.   Read More...

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