Over-the-Top-TV Specialist, Vudu, Integrates Wikipedia into its Interface

In a posting on its corporate blog last week, over-the-top-TV specialist, Vudu, announced that it has integrated Wikipedia into its interface: "Select the Wikipedia menu item on the page for any movie and find out what the world has to say about it," the company wrote. "And you don't have to stop there--you can navigate through all of the links on the Wikipedia page just like you would on Wikipedia.com, going as far as your interest and curiosity takes you. What's more, Vudu automagically creates links back into the Vudu service for any movie, actor, or director it knows about. So you can navigate from a movie >> to its Wikipedia article >> to the Wikipedia article of an actor in that movie >> to that actor's filmography on Vudu."

According to Vudu, it is easy for it to launch new services such as Wikipedia "because our whole service, including its user interface, is hosted in the 'Cloud.'" Additional benefits claimed by the company for its cloud-based architecture include the ability to update its service without firmware updates ("You don't have to wait for manufacturer firmware updates to get the newest and best stuff from Vudu. It just appears," the company writes), and the ability to deliver the same service to all its customers, regardless of which device they are using.