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Hulu Gets 400 Hours of NFL Video

Hulu struck a deal to host content from The NFL Network in January, including eight shows and highlights from every team in the National Football League. The network has been adding new content to the site ever since, and this week Hulu has posted an impressive 400 hours of NFL-related videos. Fierce Online Video reports that Hulu plans to add 600 more hours before the next football season starts. Sports enthusiasts are seeing a big boom in web video coverage; the NCAA college basketball league just launched a website that streams shareable clips from countless March Madness plays. Meanwhile, Hulu is likely hoping deals like this one will — in tandem with its own in-house reality show If I Can Dream — help make up for the loss of two of its most popular shows, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report .
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5 Websites & Tools Bloggers Should Know About

While the job is interesting and one gets to discover the latest about the Internet, blogging is no easy task. “Time is money” could not be any truer for bloggers; impossible deadlines put us under harsh time constraints. Due to this constraint, bloggers are always actively on the lookout for the next great tool that can help us cut back on the time it takes to write our articles/reviews. Bloggers who run their own website, on the other hand, are not under any critical deadlines – their worries are of a different nature
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Photo Friday’s Monitor Calibration Tool Tweaks Your Monitor to be Easier on Your Eyes [Monitors]

If you're looking for a quick and easy way to adjust your monitors without a lot of fussing with multi-step processes the calibration tool at Photo Friday can help you tweak your monitor. Nothing is a true substitute for hardware calibration but if you're not working in the print industry or as a professional photographer you don't need to calibrate your monitor to the physical world you need to calibrate it so that contrast is correct and you can use the monitor without straining your eyes. Over at the photography site Photo Friday they have a simple calibration image you can use to adjust the brightness and contrast on your monitor to an optimum level. Visit the link below and follow the simple instructions to tweak your screen. If you like your calibration tools to have a few more sliders, bells, and whistles, check out previously reviewed Online Monitor Test .
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OneGuyOneGirl Aims To Keep Online Dating Simple

Online dating sites can be daunting. Between setting up the perfect profile and then trying to meet your dream partner from profiles of hundreds of thousands of people on each site (or on some of the more popular sites like Match.com, millions of users ). One startup, OneGuyOneGirl, aims to simplify this process. The site displays One Guy and One Girl each day
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Major Facebook Investor Hopes to Score with Chatroulette

Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian venture capital firm that has invested $400 million in Facebook , has apparently made an offer to buy a piece of Chatroulette , the webcam network where you can chat with random strangers. According to Spiegel Online , DST made an offer to 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy to buy a piece of his booming website. He has yet to say yes though, as he is traveling to the U.S. to speak with American venture capitalists before taking any investment. Multiple venture capitalists have apparently expressed interest in Chatroulette, which has more than 1.5 million visitors per day and a reputation for, well, extraordinary amounts of male exhibitionism.
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How to Make a Killer Viral Photo Gallery

This post is by the online imagery experts at Shutterstock , a subscription stock photo agency. You see photo galleries all over the web: The top 10 such-and-such photos, or 25 amazing this-or-that pictures. If you’re like us, you click on almost every one of them. Themed photo galleries on blogs work for a simple reason: Almost everyone appreciates great pictures and enjoys sharing them with friends
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Sony plans new mobile initiative to take on Apple

Perhaps stirred by Apple's claim of being one of the biggest mobile device companies in the world, Sony is planning a number of new devices and services to compete with Apple's iTunes Store, iPhone, and iPad. That strategy will revolve around what's currently being called Sony Online Service, along with smartphone and tablet-like devices meant to connect to it, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report . Sony plans to launch its online media platform, aimed squarely at Apple's iTunes Store, later this month.
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How Google Keeps Your Data Safe in the Cloud

In a blog post today, Google essentially reminds its enterprise customers that Google Apps provides an alternative to expensive, complex solutions as far as data disaster recovery goes. Synchronous replication is a system that Google Apps uses to store customer’s info in two data centers at once, so that if one data center fails, Google says it nearly instantly transfers data over to the other one that’s also been reflecting the actions taken by the customer all along. On the practical side this means that thanks to the cloud-based storage solution, Google customers won’t lose any data in a data center failure. Just as crucially, they are theoretically back up and running straight away — although the online giant does acknowledge that no backup solution is perfect.
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3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age

Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications , the nation’s top crisis communications firm. He blogs on emerging digital media trends and best practices for social media engagement on Bulletproof Blog . Connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence . If there was any doubt before last year as to social media’s ability to exacerbate reputation crises, 2009 settled the debate. In just that one year, Domino’s , United Airlines , and Tiger Woods were but a few of the headlining examples that were variously infected by the viral bug.
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Now Embed Free Online Photo Editor In Your Website With Picmeleo

Picmeleo is a free online photo editor that any third-party developers can easily add Picmeleo to their web service and launch the light-weight yet powerful photo editor whenever their users need to to upload or to edit an image. By adding Picmeleo to your web service, you can now engage your users with even richer content. This is the smartest way to let your users upload and edit images for your service. Unlike other photo editors, Picmeleo opens within your site and your users never leave your service.
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