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wedding announcements
Netscape Billionaire to Wed Supermodel This Weekend
Giving geeks everywhere hope, Jim Clark, cofounder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape, is marrying swimsuit model Kristy Hinze this weekend on Richard Branson's Necker Island — also the site of Google founder Larry Page's nuptials.
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By Owen ThomasComment by aurora*raby: Jim Clark isn't bad-looking. Also, he's rich, and I can't blame him for not marrying an older, set-in-her-ways, ugly person.... 16 Responses | Other threads
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Inaugural Cash
Google Execs Pay $150,000 for Obama Bash
It's Google's presidency. We're just watching it. Six Google executives, including CEO Eric Schmidt and cofounder Larry Page, have donated $25,000 apiece to fund President Barack Obama's swearing-in party.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Goose Spruce: First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the president. 1 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Jim Clark's new wife puts "sex" back in "sexagenarian"
Gazillionaire Netscape founder Jim Clark is getting married for a fourth time — and the bride wore very little. Her name is Kristy Hinze, an Australian swimsuit model who has been dating Clark for some time. Hinze is 28, Clark is 64. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by I like Bristol Cities: She's like a good-looking Richard "Aphex Twin" James! C'mon though, who wouldn't buy a spouse like that if money were no... 1 Responses | Other threads
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caption contest
"Has one made any money from this?"
Queen visits YouTube! No, we're not talking about Ben Ling's new assignment at Google. Her Royal Highness visited Google's London offices, where she was met by YouTube founder Chad Hurley for this staged photo opportunity. Does she broadcast herself on the video site? Well, no, the Queen has people to do that for her, on her own Royal Channel. Can you suggest a better caption for the photo? Suggest it in the headlines. The best one will become the post's new headline. Yesterday's winner: "Does this turtelneck make me look thin?" by ThatKid. (Photo by Adrian Dennis/AP)
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By Owen ThomasComment by EnglishBloke: "Has one made any money from this?" 1 Responses | Other threads
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great moments in pr
YouTube founder Chad Hurley a parody of himself
The dirty secret of YouTube's Chad Hurley: Despite selling an online-video startup whose slogan is "Broadcast Yourself" to Google for $1.65 billion, he's still desperately uncomfortable in front of a camera. Google PR's media training has only turned the millionaire's awkward mannerisms into a hilariously stiff folksiness: "Having the opportunity to sit down with some press, communicate to them the deals we've been working on, meet with partners." Is he consciously imitating our tongue-tied president? Or rather, Will Ferrell's Saturday Night Live version of Dubya? No: I think he's just doing a bad impression of Chad Hurley.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Carlos: at least he spent some money on getting rid of the crackhead looking bags under the eyes more » | Other threads
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online video
Why YouTube's desperate revenue hunt is on the money
CEO Eric Schmidt botched Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube. Under his misguided traffic-first strategy, the online-video site has seen off would-be rivals, but failed to grow a business. When he decided, rather late, to make revenue a priority, he wasted time looking for a magical new ad format. (The one result of this effort, YouTube's InVideo ads, which are overlaid over a video as it plays, seems to be a complete failure.) Now, YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley admits there is no "silver bullet." YouTube has abandoned one of its shibboleths — that viewers are turned off by "preroll" ads which play before a clip — and is experimenting with a number of moneymaking schemes. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ShamitaNerq: Here's an idea, why doesn't YouTube have some sort of commerce marketplace and charge a fee for the conversions. Amazon... 1 Responses | Other threads
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commenter of the day
FaceMelter
If capitalism is supposed to reward great ideas, then how come it's often hard to believe some of these entrepreneurs ever became as successful as they did? After YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley suggested text will be replaced by video in ten years, the only explanation there could possibly be is luck, according to a lovably grumpy rant by FaceMelter: More » -
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YouTube founder claims text is dead by 2018
"In ten years, we believe that online video broadcasting will be the most ubiquitous and accessible form of communication." It's on the Official Google Blog, so take YouTube founder Chad Hurley's claim as a company statement. I envy Google's ability to have it both ways on just about any topic. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Patricia2: i have to say i agree. it won't eliminate other forms of communication entirely, but by design, the web's here... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Chad and Steve
What Viacom really wants to know about YouTube videos
What is Viacom really after in its $1 billion lawsuit against Google over YouTube? Despite a lengthy invite list, Viacom PR was only to drum up "a small press gathering" to listen to CEO Philippe Dauman at a screening for Tropic Thunder last night, according to Greg Sandoval's report on News.com. Dauman called YouTube a "rogue company" — and expressed disappointment that Google did nothing to rein it in. Viacom's now being painted as a rogue itself, seeking to violate YouTube users' privacy in requesting viewing logs from the site. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ThaiKitchen: That might have true to that, since that's the only thing holding YouTube to their millions. According to this analysis of... more » | Other threads
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online video
YouTube announces paid downloads, DVD sales for filmmakers
On the heels of extending the time and size limit for uploaded videos from partners, YouTube has announced that as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival tomorrow it will be launching the "Screening Room," a place for independent filmmakers to upload and sell shorts and feature-length material. The site will allow direct sales of both digital downloads and DVDs. I asked viral video producer Tim Street, best known for French Maid TV, if there were further details, but he says that while YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is also at the Henry Fonda Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, he's yet to take the stage. Update: Hurley's pressing the flesh, but otherwise providing no details, while the party has moved upstairs to look down on the rest of Hollywood from above. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by WagCurious: It goes without saying that Alan Rosenberg, president of SAG has an huge boner to unionize all of this. He... more » | Other threads
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youtube
"Fight for Mike" moves to YouTube
Mike Homer, the former Netscape executive suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, has inspired a YouTube channel for the "Defeat Dementia" campaign, an effort to educate the public about neurodegenerative diseases. Angel investor Ron Conway, Google advisor Bill Campbell, and YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley organized the collaboration between the online-video site and UCSF, where Homer is being treated. [AllThingsD] -
once you're lucky, twice you're good
L is for Levchin, who never goes slow
Max Levchin, the cofounder of PayPal and the CEO of Slide, measures nearly everything, down to the optimum price to pay for an engagement ring. If he needs a metric for self-importance, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, Sarah Lacy's new book about Web 2.0, provides one. He occupies 78 out of 294 pages, more than anyone else. Here are the index pages for "F" through "M": More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by plushmessiah: It's amazing that this shit is actually called "book". more » | Other threads
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the official filthy rich handbook
"The Nerdling"
His patron saints are Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley. He wears Robert Marc spectacles his publicist picked out for him, and last summer, when he rented a Villa next to Jade Jagger's, Nicole Richie called him a "dork loser." He's the "Nerdling" from The Official Filthy Rich Handbook by Christopher Tennant, due out in June. An excerpt, below. More »
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Comment by SFJoe: Being called a 'dork loser' by the likes of Nicole Ritchie sounds like a compliment to me. It's sort of... more » | Other threads
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jackpot
Metacafe founders take their $5 million and go
Metacafe cofounders Arik Czerniak and Ofer Adler — neither involved with the company's day-to-day operations — will walk away from the company with $2.5 million each, according to TheMarker. If $5 million seems like a lot, remember that YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each cleared $326.2 million selling out to Google and that Czerniak and Adler might have turned down a $200 million to $700 million offer from Yahoo. All of which makes it even more fun to watch the video embedded below, recorded just weeks after Google purchased YouTube, where Czerniak tries to convince Bambi Francisco that Metacafe is "the largest, most popular video site." More »
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Comment by Widget Economist: Zuckerberg may be the king of awkward speaking. This guy is just -- boring. more » | Other threads
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nerdspotting
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and YouTubers party with Pussycat Dolls in Vegas
YouTube cofounders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen partied in Las Vegas over weekend, taking to the VIP sections at Caesar's Palace and the Luxor, a nerdspotter tells us. At Caesar's Hurley, Chen and a crew of about 25 YouTubers — early employees, we hear — lounged around Club Pure, taking in a Pussycat Dolls show (an example in the clip below). Our tipster tells us the group partied not like rock stars, but "cool nerds." Anyone have a visual explanation of what that looks like? Send in your cameraphone spy clips of Chen & Co., or better yet, post them to YouTube. More »
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Comment by Blackjack: Did Hurley smile at all or did he wear his usual pissed at the world semi-smirk all night? more » | Other threads
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geek love
Aussie swimsuit model is Netscape founder's new new fling
63-year-old Netscape cofounder Jim Clark began dating 27-year-old Australian swimsuit model Kristy Hinze almost three years ago, she told Australian Women's Weekly . They kept the relationship quiet until now, a few months before she begins hosting the Australian version of Project Runway. Along with Netscape, Clark founded Silicon Graphics and Healtheon. Clark's latest venture, a condo project in Miami, was an unqualified bust. But it hasn't damaged Clark's net worth, reported to be around $1.1 billion. More »
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Comment by thekevin: (63/2)+7 = 38.5 [en.wikipedia.org] Jim Clarke is a baby-stealing son of a gun. more » | Other threads
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david anderson
Does your VC have a Democrat in his pocket?
Senator Clinton polls higher than Senator Obama in Santa Clara County, 43 percent to 27 percent, a Clinton campaign staffer told the Wall Street Journal. But we know what really counts in Silicon Valley: money. And when it comes to raising cash, Barack Obama's winning over the tech crowd. He raised about $500,000 just last weekend at a breakfast in Atherton. Wondering who was there? Here's a list of known Silicon Valley supporters for each candidate. More » -
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Vimeo founder calls YouTube founders "evil"
For a minute or two, there was some glimmer of hope that YouTube would allow users to upload their videos in HD. Not so, Silicon Alley Insider clarifies. But while chaos reigned in high-definition for a few moments, oft-naked Vimeo founder and HD-video advocate Jakob Lodwick took the opportunity to take a few shots at YouTube. More » -
online video
Oprah starts a YouTube channel
Oprah Winfrey is launching her own YouTube channel. It will have clips and behind-the-scenes footage from her show. The unveiling will occur November 6 on the Oprah show along with YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Tyson the skateboarding dog and Judson Laipply, the "Evolution of Dance" guy. That'll be a fun show to watch. Hope someone posts it on YouTube. More »
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Comment by Trackback: On Friday, Oprah revealed her latest project—her own YouTube Channel. The new channel already includes teasers for upcoming shows, behind-the-scenes... more » | Other threads
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stats
Thanks to Internet, Miss Teen South Carolina is "famous"
I'm impressed that America's Funniest Home Videos is still on the air. Especially after Chad Hurley & Co. turned the idea behind the TV show into a $1.65 billion payday from Google. Any gaffe caught on video — by, say, a Miss Teen USA candidate — is instantly available to millions on YouTube, where it can, over time, draw a much bigger audience than the venerable broadcast video roundup. Web-traffic tracker Compete has a nifty map, reproduced after the jump, illustrating the spread of Miss Teen South Carolina's implosion on national television. It's natural for Compete to do a geographic analysis, considering that the pageant contestant's cartographic failings were so publicly on display in the clip, which has now been viewed over 17 million times. If you've been hiding under a rock and somehow missed it the first time, the video is after the jump as well. More »
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Comment by ChiefCynic: You can have yer YouTubes cause it doesn't have Tom Bergeron's face pasted on videos of guys getting accidentally punched... more » | Other threads
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superficial
Michael Moritz, what are you doing with your shoes?
Pictured this morning on the TechCrunch40 stage, four men worth a total of a kajillion dollars or something along those lines. From left, Yahoo founder David Filo, wearing the safe and unimaginative Silicon Valley uniform, YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley in his jeans-and-jacket casual yuppie attire, Ning and Netscape cofounder Marc Andreessen, who goes for the novel tracksuit and khakis combo, and Sequoia Capital uber-investor Michael Moritz. Oh, Michael. He's Welsh, so he's always dressed a bit more snappily than the normal tech layperson, which is a good thing. But what on earth is he doing with his shoes? Hoping to change into slippers and a cardigan like a powerful Mr. Rogers? Or just nervously squirming in his chair before the crowd? VCs already have a reputation as ADD-addled fidgeters, this isn't going to help. (Photo by jspepper) -
e-commerce
When YouTube met eBay
E-commerce sites are now adding video, as the infomercial enters the age of YouTube. What amuses us about this trend is that it was an early business model, since abandoned, that YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen entertained for their online-video startup. Having previously worked for eBay, Hurley and Chen briefly conceived of YouTube as a tool for embedding videos in online auctions. It's gone from far-out idea to standard practice in the cottage industry for selling-on-eBay tips. -
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By Owen ThomasComment by Nick Douglas: Wow, they're really choking, and I saw them answer these same questions smoothly at a public talk. I'm still impressed how... more » | Other threads
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politics
Eric Savitz goes through Federal Election Committee filings, picks out the top political contributors in Silicon Valley. Barack Obama gets some big names: Sequoia Capital VC Michael Moritz, Google backer Ram Shriram, and YouTube founder Chad Hurley all gave to his campaign. Sadly, no information on Ron Paul supporters. [Barrons] -
steve jobs
Blender gets it wrong
Glossy music magazine Blender has named Apple CEO Steve Jobs to the top of the Powergeek 25, its list of the top 25 people who influence online music. We don't object to the content of the list, but we do object to the title. His Steveness is no geek! And neither are flashy MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson nor suave Youtubers Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The only recognizable geek on there is Bram Cohen of BitTorrent, at number 19. The rest are either techies, hipsters, or businesspeople. Someone at Blender should read up on their definitions.
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Comment by Megan McCarthy: @yinst: It's actually "nit picking," not "neat picking." ... I've just earned another point, haven't I? more » | Other threads
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take money, run
The great Youtube cashout
As filed with the SEC, Youtube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen — along with a crowd of other investors — plan to sell off a huge chunk of the Google stock acquired when Youtube was purchased by the search corp. The numbers are indeed sweet: based on current stock prices, Hurley's shares are worth $345 million plus, and eligible bachelor Chen's $326 million plus. But who's the real big winner? More » -
separated at birth
Pirates of Silicon Valley II: Our Candidates for the Cast
NICK DOUGLAS — While dust gathers on our old VHS copies of Pirates of Silicon Valley (for us, Noah Wyle's career hit its high point with his role as Steve Jobs), it's time to cast the sequel. Starring the Daily Show's Demetri Martin as Digg founder Kevin Rose, Jason Bateman as Diggnation co-host Alex Albrecht and Rush Limbaugh as John C. Dvorak, the show also includes stars playing Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Merlin Mann, and Google's Marissa Mayer. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by rover5: Nice job, but I think you missed the mark on Dvorak. John C. Dvorak has always reminded me of... more » | Other threads
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youtube
Meet the duo: Why YouTube's Chad Hurley can't be the next Steve Jobs
A dynamic duo is more likely to found a hit company than a lone gunman. Hewlett and Packard, Yahoo's David Filo and Jerry Yang, Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page, — even Steve Jobs had his Steve Wozniak. The character of the company, then, lies not in one personality but the relationship between two. For YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, that relationship, according to Fortune, is the classic nerd-and-businessman pair. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by trixiebubbles: iCons? Is there a bias here? ;> more » | Other threads
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meevee
Bubblespotting, ultimate reader tip edition: MeeVee got its sign for free, Yahoos booed their CEO, and Chad Hurley can't park
Readers sent in some great tips over the past 24 hours. Tipster #1 allays our fears that TV-listing startup MeeVee is blowing its cash on signage: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by popanalysis: I wouldn't be surprised if Hurley did hit someone in the Google parking lot -- all of the lots are... more » | Other threads
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youtube
New York Post prints new YouTube self-valuation and old just-got-laid founder photo
The New York Post's tech writer (last seen stalking a Google founder's girlfriend) has Hard! Hitting! News! about YouTube: More » -
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The Chronicle gets lovesick over Chad Hurley
Everyone in the media acts giddy over YouTube — it's the center of our youth's social lives! They'll build New Media around it! — and the Chronicle has taken the love up an extra notch. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by ray johnson: New Media = Illegal Clips of Old Media + Chad Vader more » | Other threads
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chad hurley
Did YouTube sell? The tell-all in-depth photo analysis
The world waits to see if popular video site YouTube met a buyer at Media Mogul Summer Camp. Careful analysis of an AP news photo yielded some clues about CEO Chad Hurley, and about his camp buddy Blake Krikorian of Slingbox. More » -
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Awkward moments at Media Mogul Summer Camp
Oh Associated Press, you coy little news syndicate! How can you tease us with mentions of "friction bristling beneath the surface" of this week's Idaho media mogul retreat without sharing a story or two? Instead you leave us to imagine scenes like this: More » -
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Is YouTube about to sell at Media Mogul Camp?
The heads of Coke, Google, News Corp, Nike, Time Warner, and other moguls flew to Sun Valley, Idaho this week for an invitation-only retreat. Joining them were the founders of YouTube — hot properties to be sure, but terribly fresh-faced for this crowd. More »
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