Tag archive: community

Mentioned within an official Hulu blog post by CEO Jason Kilar, Hulu has gained over 1.5 million premium subscribers to the Hulu Plus service. This brings Hulu in line with the same amount of premium subscriber as DVR service TiVo according to SplatF's Dan Frommer, but still lags far behind the 25 million Netflix subscribers. Both Hulu Plus and Netflix's streaming-only package are priced at $7.99 per month for each service. During… Read More

Announced last week, NBC brought an update to its iPad application which allows users to watch ad-supported episodes of 28 popular NBC shows including The Office, Community, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, America's Got Talent, Chuck, 30 Rock and The Biggest Loser. Oddly, this eliminates a reason for iPad owners to subscribe to Hulu Plus, the streaming video company that's partly owned by NBCUniversal and currently up for sale to the… Read More

While Netflix subscribers have voiced displeasure with the company on the Web all day due to a 60 percent price increase announced yesterday, Netflix quietly announced a renewed, multi-year contract agreement with NBC Universal. The new deal keeps all the existing NBC content online and adds the latest seasons of shows like The Office, Psych and Law and Order: SVU. Netflix Instant subscribers will also see more classic NBC television like Leave… Read More

In recent months YouTube has come under increasing criticism from both the US and UK for the fact that it has violent videos that have been uploaded available. But that has now changed as the Google-owned site has updated its community guidelines to prohibit videos that “directly incite violence,” the Guardian reports. There are two big changes in the community guidelines. One states: "Graphic or gratuitous violence is… Read More

Leading online hangout—or, “lifestyle portal”—MySpace has announced MySpace KK, a 50-50 partership with Japan's Softbank to launch MySpace Japan, a new online community exclusively for the Japanese market. To celebrate, MySpace Japan will host a free Secret Show on November 15, 2006, with Oasis' Noel Gallagher and GEM for a semi-acoustic show just for local MySpace users. “The launch of a Japanese… Read More

Microsoft's Xbox group must be very happy campers right now as their latest numbers on membership of Xbox Live show strong growth over the last year. The size of the community, Microsoft says, has effectively doubled to 2 million users. This is the estimated equivalent of one new member every 30 seconds. The computer giant, according to a press release, equates this exponential growth largely to a growing library of videogame titles… Read More

“Now, these people were caught not because of the brilliance of law enforcement, or the stupidity of their actions, as is so common with some criminals, but because they picked on the wrong community. I use the word community very advisedly, mainly because it seems like it was the community that brought them down. If you pick on an unloved loner, or an antisocial entity, chances are that you will get away with it. Pick on something… Read More

Arrests have been made in several countries related to the break-in to Valve's network, theft of the Half-Life 2 source code, and release of the source code on the Internet, the company said. “Within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved,” said Gabe Newell, Valve's CEO. “It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were… Read More

 spokesman for the community said it was hoped the new audio and video device, EVD or enhanced versatile disk, would attack the market share of DVD, or digital video disk. Funded by the government, major Chinese manufacturers initiated research to develop EVD in 1999. Beijing E-world Technology Co., Ltd., a window company of the community, said that it has already overcome all difficulties from primary development, chip designing and… Read More

Here's the deal on the 142 MB (Umod) or 130 MB (zipped) pack: “This compilation began as a small project. A few of the Unreal community's best level designers got together to release a small pack of their best work to the community. As the time went on, the project grew into something far more significant, with more and more of the best Unreal talent out there joining the team. The map count went from a small handful to a… Read More