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The Daily Show is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program that takes a reality-based look at news, trends, pop culture, current events, politics, sports and entertainment with an alternative point of view. In each show, anchorman Jon Stewart and a team of correspondents, including Aasif Mandvi, Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, Jason Jones and Samantha Bee, comment on the day’s stories, employing actual news footage, taped field pieces, in-studio guests and on-the-spot coverage of important news events.
Hulu announced and opened up Hulu Labs yesterday. Hulu Labs is a place for the company to share experimental projects and obtain feedback from users. There are currently 4 projects listed on the page.
Hulu Desktop
Hulu Desktop is a lean-back viewing experience for your personal computer. It features a sleek new look that’s optimized for use with standard Windows Media Center remote controls or Apple remote controls, allowing you to navigate Hulu’s entire library with just six buttons.
The Video Panel Designer
Video Panels are easy-to-use embeddable widgets that allow simple content programming and easily integrate a Hulu video player. The Video Panel Designer tool helps site editors and Web masters customize and program Video Panels to fit their needs.
Recommendations
Recommendations are a list of TV shows and movies that we think you’ll love based on videos you’ve already watched and rated on Hulu. Anyone with a Hulu account can access these recommendations: log in or sign up for a free account and select the Recommendations tab found on your Profile page.
Time-Based-Browsing
Time-Based Browsing allows you to quickly scan our videos grouped by original air date. Whether you’re a TV junkie who remembers shows by the day of week they air, a budding media anthropologist curious to study TV’s evolution across the decades, or just a user in search of timely news clips, time-based browsing is another way to easily find more videos on Hulu.
Our March Madness Widget for the 2009 NCAA Tournament Bracket has been updated for the 2009 Tourney. Again, it was built for personal use so it’s pretty limited. The bracket currently updates every 60 seconds so it’s a good way to keep up to date with the scores.
The current default view is the EAST Region. However, you can select from the EAST, MIDWEST, SOUTH, WEST or ELITE EIGHT brackets as the default view when you grab the widget. If you decide to change he default view later, just grab the code again and select the new view as the default.
Update (2009-12-25): Widget removed due to changes in the Clearspring Platform and lack of interest in this widget.
Not a widget mashup but a remixing of YouTube videos.
An Israel-based musician and producer named Kutiman mixes up various YouTube videos to produce an unique sound. He’s distinctive sound has collectively accumulated over 3 million views already.
Saw a post over at Widgets Lab today on a movie trailer widget. While it was interesting, there where a few things that were lacking.
So, it got us thinking about a site we ran across awhile ago. The site Trailer Addict had a large library of good/high quality trailers and a free API to boot. With a little bit of work we threw together a quick movie trailers widget.
TrailerAddict was created for those who understand what it means to be a fan of movie trailers. Getting to the theater early on purpose, we are bound by the knowledge that trailers are (at times) better than the films they represent. TrailerAddict has been built not for those who like a good trailer now and then, but those who understand that the need to watch trailers is a state of mind.
