Hulu’s new feature: Hulu Friends

Hulu is celebrating its one-year anniversary. Has it been that long already? Hulu has put together something for its users with its “Fan Appreciation” days starting today. Every weekday up to March 20th, Hulu will be unveiling new features and/or content.

Today, Hulu has set up something called “Hulu Friends.” Hulu says you can “See what your friends are doing on Hulu.” To access this feature you have to go to your profile and click the “Friends” tab.

After you agree to allow Hulu to publish your name as your first name and last initial, you can import contact information from Gmail, Facebook, MSN Hotmail, MySpace, Yahoo Mail or you can use your friend’s e-mail or real name. It’s a pretty straight forward procedure. If you’ve ever added friends in Facebook, you’ll get how to do this.

Boxee has a similar feature that allows you to see your friends’ activity. Adding this feature to Hulu is a pretty good idea since you can get exposed to new shows and clips without doing much. If you’re ashamed that you watch “Diff’rent Strokes” minisodes, this might not be the best thing for you. As an aside, I like the Minisode shows since they pretty much cut out all the non-essential stuff in lots of 80s television.