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saved by2 people, first byMarcel Weiss on 2007-08-30, last bywsprivatebeta EDW on 2008-02-01

  • Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March.
  • Hulu means “butt” in both Indonesian and Malay. But that’s nothing compared to Swahili, which 80 million or so people speak in sub-Saharan Africa. In Swahili, Hulu means, among other things, both “cease” and “desist.” See here as well.


    Given the litigious nature of online video, that is some serious irony. And you can bet that Hulu, and its parent companies NBC and News Corp., are going to be sending out one heck of a lot of cease and desist letters as soon as this thing launches.