{"id":744401,"date":"2013-04-01T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=625952"},"modified":"2013-04-01T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T15:28:16","slug":"get-ready-for-mixbit-youtube-co-founder-teases-new-video-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/744401","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for MixBit: YouTube co-founder teases new video site"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley piggybacked on YouTube\u2019s April Fool\u2019s Day Monday by using it to tease a new site<\/a> called MixBit<\/a> as a possible replacement. Of course, one has to take this announcement with a grain of salt, given the date, but it looks as if this is going to be the collaborative video site Hurley briefly mentioned at SXSW.<\/p>

MixBit currently only hosts a placeholder site, which reads:<\/p>

\u201cYouTube is shutting down. Instead of sitting around, we thought you’d want a new site to not only watch cat videos, but create them… together!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>

The site further promises that the \u201cfuture of video is launching soon.\u201d The Verge, which spotted Hurley\u2019s tweet about MixBit first<\/a>, also found a (now-disabled) test pages including one featuring a \u201clooping mp4 video featuring YouTube co-founders Hurley and Steve Chen.\u201d<\/p>

MixBit is being developed by Avos, the startup co-founded by Hurley and Chen that also bought Delicious.com in 2011. Recently, GigaOM spotted a still-unannounced Delicious offspring called D.me built by Avos.<\/a><\/p>
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