YouTube Co-founder Announces New Video Site
YouTube is one of Google's biggest products. Now, one of the men behind the successful video sharing site has a new project. YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley today announced the upcoming launch of his brand new site, MixBit.
Hurley, along with his YouTube co-founders Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, sold YouTube to Google in 2006 for the princely sum of $1.65 billion. He left Google almost three years ago, in 2010, and handed the reigns over to Salar Kamangar. However, it seems he's been busy working on something else. Hurley tweeted about his new project, using Google's 'YouTube is shutting down' April Fool's joke as a jumping off point.
Not surprisingly, Hurley's newest project also relates to videos and user-generated content. MixBit is a video collaboration tool that allows users to work together on videos. Though it's not live yet, users can sign up for more information about MixBit by entering their email address at MixBit.com. Visiting the site will result in a message stating that YouTube is shutting down and an invitation to sign up for a new site that allows people to not only "watch cat videos, but create them... together!"
No word on when MixBit will launch properly, but we'll keep you posted!
Unless I upload my own video of a cat doing something funny, in which case I wouldn't expect to get paid, but I suppose the ads will be there to pay the site owners for upkeep of servers, etc
pretty much any browser (safari, chrome, firefox) + adblock.
The server costs for a video hosting/playing site would be very expensive compared to most websites
Will some music company or greedy 3rd party entity claim that the music on the vids are copyrighted by them so they can monetize and place ads on your videos?
That cheeses me off especially since I paid for my licenses and use paid Royalty free tracks. Yet I have to fill out the dispute form every time since they claim they own copyrights to the tracks I paid for.
See, that's why they (and you) are wrong. If it had at least basic ad-free subscription, I'd be more than happy to pay for good service that wouldn't try to serve me ads on every step I make and wouldn't track everything I do.
and if you think you have any chance of starting a channel and getting noticed without any youtube partner help then think again.
its called "themtube" now.
Well just have to wait and see how mixbit turns out though.
Ha! "themtube"