{"id":649838,"date":"2013-04-01T11:58:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=223228"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:58:16","slug":"youtube-co-founder-teases-mixbit-a-new-collaborative-video-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649838","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Co-Founder Teases MixBit, a New Collaborative Video Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, we told you that YouTube co-founder and former CEO Chad Hurley was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/youtube-co-founder-cooking-up-new-video-site-2013-03\">cooking up a new video site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Hurley dropped the first piece of the puzzle in a tweet first spotted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/1\/4169494\/mixbit-video-collaboration-site-chad-hurley-youtube-founder-announcement\">The Verge<\/a>. The site is called <a href=\"http:\/\/mixbit.com\/\">MixBit<\/a>, and it proclaims that &#8220;the future of video is launching soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;YouTube is shutting down. Instead of sitting around, we thought you&#8217;d want a new site to not only watch cat videos, but create them&#8230;together!&#8221; says the site&#8217;s landing page. Here, they are referencing<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/youtube-shutdown-prank-all-this-time-its-just-been-one-big-contest-2013-04\"> today&#8217;s YouTube April Fools joke<\/a>. The prank has Google announcing a shut down of YouTube, so that they can finally select a winner. Yep, that&#8217;s all YouTube ever was &#8211; one giant contest. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Since @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/youtube\">youtube<\/a> is ending, we&#8217;re launching a new video site&#8230; Welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/rb6s3gzl8x\" title=\"http:\/\/MixBit.com\">MixBit.com<\/a>! @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mixbitapp\">mixbitapp<\/a> This time it&#8217;s not a contest!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chad Hurley (@Chad_Hurley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chad_Hurley\/status\/318681911247646720\">April 1, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That little blip also teases the collaborative focus of MixBit. We don&#8217;t know a lot about how the new video site will work, but we do have a general outline thanks to Hurley&#8217;s remarks back in March. <\/p>\n<p>He said that MixBit would be &#8220;\u201cprimarily video-based,&#8221; with &#8220;flexibility for people to work together and create content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hurley also said that he wasn\u2019t looking to kill YouTube and that \u201cthere\u2019s always going to be a place for YouTube.\u201d MixBit will just focus on being a  \u201cplatform better suited for collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=aiKKd33aVns:1wWlhCmZZko:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/aiKKd33aVns\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, we told you that YouTube co-founder and former CEO Chad Hurley was cooking up a new video site. Today, Hurley dropped the first piece of the puzzle in a tweet first spotted by The Verge. The site is called MixBit, and it proclaims that &#8220;the future of video is launching soon.&#8221; &#8220;YouTube is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}