Netflix, Hulu and the golden age of content
Hulu is launching its first original scripted show just days before Netflix will unveil its first stab at an original TV show. Both companies are part of a bigger movement toward original online programming that includes new ways of funding as well as distribution.
Crowdsourcing creative content: a case study
Over the past few years, a lot has been made of “crowdsourcing” trends. It seem like everything — from graphic design and logos to funding — can be made better, faster, or cheaper thanks to crowd. But can crowdsourcing work for creative content? 
Yes, You Can Trust Your Users to Tag Your Videos
Professional cataloguers can be great if you want to index content -- for professional cataloguers. But if you want to help average people find videos, then you should embrace user-contributed tags, even if they can contain spelling errors. Don't worry, it still all makes sense to someone. 
Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too
About $10 million in funding, it turns out. From some pretty high-profile folks, too: Union Square Ventures, Betaworks, and lots of angels you've heard of. For some reason, the company hasn't talked about them before. But that's over now, courtesy of a Wired profile.
Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too
About $10 million in funding, it turns out. From some pretty high-profile folks, too: Union Square Ventures, Betaworks, and lots of angels you've heard of. For some reason, the company hasn't talked about them before. But that's over now, courtesy of a Wired profile.
Kickstarter Fesses Up: The Crowd-Sourced Funding Startup Has Funding Too
About $10 million in funding, it turns out. From some pretty high-profile folks, too: Union Square Ventures, Betaworks, and lots of angels you've heard of. For some reason, the company hasn't talked about them before. But that's over now, courtesy of a Wired profile.
With its newest round of Knight funding, DocCloud will figure out how to scale reader annotations