You Tube in Trouble: Hulu had just Arrived

YouTube is perhaps the most popular site when it comes to free videos. There are millions of clips/videos that YouTube can offer. It gives amateurs and professionals alike an equal opportunity to show off their creativity and share to everyone their creations. The downside of which is it makes it easier for users to upload videos that are copyrighted. This is the reason YouTube had been under fire for copyright issues for showing clips from MTV and other major channels.

This is where Hulu (http://www.hulu.com/) comes in. Hulu had just recently been open to the public but months before the website had been tested by select people. Looks like everything went well because the site is really good.

There are a wide variety of TV series and Movies available. The video quality is exceptional (you can put the video to full screen and the video would still look good) and the buffering is fast so no need to wait long to load the movie.

There are also options to embed the videos to your site or blog, email the video to someone or share the videos through MySpace, Digg, Facebook, etc.

The limitations for these?

1. You can not upload your own videos for this site. So the choices are a bit limited. But give it time since its just starting. More videos will be available in the future for sure.

2. Most TV shows have excerpts only except for full episodes. And some series contains 1 or 2 episodes only. But I like I said in item 1 hopefully more videos will be available in the future

2. Very dissapointing: Its only available in the US :(

Hulu is very good delivering their goal which is "...help you find and enjoy the world's premium content when, where and how you want it. " but I think more people would still turn into youtube if they want to search for videos.

Pacquio - Marquez II: And the winner is...

MANNY PACQUIAO -- Winner by Split Decision

The official scores were:
Jerry Roth: 115-112 (Marquez)
Duane Ford: 115-112 (Pacquiao)
Tom Miller: 114-113 (Pacquiao)

Pacquiao - Marquez II

Could not watch it in TV. So I looked for the next best thing: Internet. No free live streaming videos though but found a round by round analysis. Check it at: http://www.fighthype.com/pages/roundbyround2211.html

Found a video in youtube. But this is only for round 1.

Atlanta Storm Video

This is the best video I could find showing the damage in downtown Atlanta.

I would probably take pictures when I get back to office on Tuesday but I think everything would be cleaned up by that time.

And another news I got, there was a hailstorm somewhere in Atlanta just this midafternoon. Pretty scary.

Update: Atlanta Storm

So they stopped calling it a tornado and the cause is now determined as a storm.

The Equitable Building (our office) will be closed on Monday, so everyone (including me :) ) will be working remotely at home on Monday.

Looks like there were a lot of damage on the building with windows being shattered in the upper floors. The telephone and internet connections were undamaged however so it wouldn't be long before we can start working on the office again.

The good news here is that no one was hurt, even the people who were inside the building during the storm were unharmed so thanks God for that.