Apr 04, 2013
YouTube founder opened a new website with video content
Chad Hurley, one of YouTube founders, launched a new website for editing and publishing videos — Mixbit.
«As YouTube stops working, we launch a new video website» - Hurley wrote in Twitter, having accompanied an April Fools' joke of Google about video hosting closing till 2023. Mixbit.com gets you forward on a site with a cap.
«YouTube is closed. We thought that you wanted to do nothing and you would need a new site for not only watching commercials with cats, but also to create them … together!»
Resource visitors have an opportunity to write their e-mail, then a notification will come when the resource will be started. What Mixbit will be devoted for, precisely isn't clear. Several weeks ago Hurley declared that the purpose of his new project is not in "killing" YouTube which will "always have its place", but to create completely different platform which is suitable for co-operation much better.
Hurley, who worked as the designer in PayPal, set up YouTube in 2005. Programmers Steve Chen and Javed Karim were his partners. In the fall of 2006 (partly because of charges in copyright violation) the project was sold to Google for 1,65 billion dollars. Hurley left company four years later at the end of 2010 to be engaged into creation of male clothes.