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media wars
YouTube's Changing of the Guard
YouTube co-founder Steve Chen has quietly left his baby behind, moving to a different Google division. Fellow co-founder Chad Hurley might leave too, PaidContent writes. Now comes a more Hollywood future for the video-sharing site. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by pepelicious: So why the picture of his mom? 1 Responses | Other threads
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YouTube goes live after all
On November 22nd, YouTube will host a two-hour event in San Francisco, "a celebration of the site's vast user communities." Looks like we can expect performances from Akon, Soulja Boy, will.i.am and a bunch of online video-powered Weblebrities. And it will be broadcast live over the Internet. So, it turns out that Steve Chen was right after all — YouTube will have introduced live streaming video by the end of the year. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by buzzzkilll: Isn't that Flavor Flav in the screen grab? 1 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
YouTube's Steve Chen decorating a penthouse downtown
Is Google's Marissa Mayer getting a coworker for a neighbor? Word on the tipline is that YouTube cofounder Steve Chen is putting together a high-tech bachelor pad: More »
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By Jackson WestComment by hatebook: Met him once, seemed chill, good for him. more » | Other threads
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bad ideas
Google nixes Steve Chen's YouTube live video plan
In a moment of what now seems like irrational exuberance, YouTube cofounder Steve Chen declared that the popular online video site would add live video streaming this year. Not so fast, says Google. YouTube is already struggling with the concept of profitability, and according to an anonymous source cited by Silicon Alley Insider's Michael Learmonth, Chen's idea is a financial black hole: More »
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By Jackson WestComment by dng81: @WagCurious: I can make a few guesses: 1. YouTube videos are delivered off a standard CDN. We've mastered this technology.... more » | 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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once you're lucky, twice you're good
B is for Botha, who sold YouTube big
Few people outside Silicon Valley have heard of Roelof Botha. But the former CFO of PayPal is famous here. His two claims to fame: negotiating that company's $1.5 billion sale to eBay, and later, as a partner at Sequoia Capital, investing in YouTube and quickly flipping the startup to Google for $1.65 billion. Is it a coincidence that that figure is 10 percent higher than his PayPal score? Few insiders think so. Botha gets four pages in Sarah Lacy's Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good — more than Google cofounder Sergey Brin. Other figures who appear on the second page of her Web 2.0 book's index: John Battelle, Ning CEO Gina Bianchini, Facebook board member Jim Breyer, blog blowhard Jason Calacanis, and YouTube cofounder Steve Chen, whom Botha made quite wealthy. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by weezle3: "California Pubic Retirement System"? That better not be in the final edition, or the whole source of funds for the... 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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health and beauty
Yahoo is less prudish than Google
The customer service team in Sunnyvale knows all about the porn on Yahoo Video, but vice president Laura Narducci, who is responsible for managing the video site, could care less. "She hemmed and hawed over how awful it was, but no measures to prevent it were put in place," Valleywag's tipster tells us. Yahoo's been around a lot longer than Google, and knows what kind of traffic and revenue prurient interest can generate online. Given Steve Chen's latest comments, YouTube may finally be wising up to the money Google is leaving on the table by not offering a blue room.
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By Jackson WestComment by ripopgome: Ah, the good ol' days when Yahoo was actively working on adult-content portals... sniff, sniff. Some of the useful people... more » | Other threads
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loser-generated content
Steve Chen says reviewing graphic clips is "impossible task"
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen worries about graphic rape clips on YouTube. But not enough to do something about it, because he thinks it is important for uploaded videos to be available for immediate viewing. Also, given that 10 hours of content is uploaded every minute, it would be impossible to screen each video before displaying it on the site. Chen told the Sydney Morning Herald that YouTube has to "rely on the millions of eyeballs from the community rather than the hundreds that we have [internally] on the site." YouTube is also developing a technology to prevent a clip which was deleted from being uploaded again. The TV and movie studios whose clips helped give Chen's YouTube a $1.65 billion payday don't have a problem hiring people to review content on the site. Stopping depictions of violence against women, though? Leave it to the servers. Google has plenty of them. (Photo by ideali)
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Comment by matto: I must be clicking the wrong links, all I get are cute girls in elevators lip-syncing to songs. more » | Other threads
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exclusive
Screenshots of YouTube videos in HD
YouTube began testing HD last fall. Now it's here. Sort of. A tipster nabbed this screenshot of a YouTube video which gives the use the option to "watch this video in higher quality." We tried it out and took screenshots from the same frame in the video. Comparison shots, below. More »
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Comment by webcreation: Watch YouTube HD - higher definition, and download MP4 videos, check this site : [www.ouideo.com] Really good ! more » | Other threads
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online video
Ustream.tv and Justin.tv respond to YouTube's live streaming gauntlet
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen confirmed that YouTube is working on a live streaming product which would put it in competition with lifecasting startups like Ustream.tv and Justin.tv, as well as the "experimental" Yahoo Live service. We asked Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel and Ustream.tv CEO Brad Hunstable how their companies felt about the move. More »
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Comment by andyfox1979: I'm not sure how anyone can spin GOOGLE entering your space as something positive. It doesn't come off as confident but... more » | Other threads
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steve chen
YouTube cofounder casually promises to wipe out Ustream, Justin.tv
In the clip above, Steve Chen tells us YouTube plans to add live streaming by the end of 2008. And, from her voiceover, that Pop17's Sarah Meyers would love a Philippe Dauman Jr. party.
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Comment by sggrf: This dude is a super-rich tool! Nothing will ever change that. more » | Other threads
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polls
If these are the four most eligible men in tech, we have a problem
Mashable's Pete Cashmore may be a looker, but is he the best Silicon Valley can do? Seems so. Take a look at the Google toppers, for example: Larry? Taken. Sergey? Taken. Eric Schmidt? Taken. Taken. Taken. But don't worry, the Nob Hill Gazette has you covered with its latest "annual roundup of the Most Desirable, Most Adorable, Brainy and Brassy" bachelors. It's a long list, but of course there are only four tech representatives. Vote for your favorite in our Valleywag poll. More »
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Comment by iheartSV: Jared is sexy but why isn't Jack Dorsey on this list. He's quite sexy too. more » | Other threads
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party report
Party correspondent confronts ghosts of Yelp parties past
Yelp, the local-reviews site, is as infamous in San Francisco as it is nonfamous anywhere else in the country. Its parties, always hedonistic rampages of drunken conversations, burlesque troops, and makeout sessions in the photobooth, helped establish its local reputation and cement the loyalty of hardcore users. (Even the founders get in on the action!) Last night, Yelp held its holiday party at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Upon entering, I was greeted by a mass of San Francisco Yelptards, each louder than the next, all laughing, cajoling, flirting, and hugging each other. Self-congratulations were clearly in order. 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 » -
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YouTube founder thinks this is good enough
Steve Chen just told a conference that he thinks HD isn't a high priority because video on YouTube is "good enough." To which I say: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by dweezel: Can the current infrastructure handle millions of users streaming HD video with high quality sound? more » | Other threads
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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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youtube
YouTube previews redesign, gives Hulu hope
Somebody bring Steve "sexy-calves" Chen back from Hong Kong. Things are getting ugly. And by things, I mean YouTube, which is previewing a redesign of its site that features drop-down menus and a new "look" (ugly) and "feel" (greased enamel?). NBC and News Corp.'s online-video joint venture Hulu may be months late and its launch team probably just got off another all-night conference call, but the site isn't out of the game yet. Not if the YouTube redesign team keeps screwing up Hulu's competition. -
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Steve Chen has great calves, stalkers
So we know the guy is loaded, but who figured YouTube cofounder Steve Chen had groupies? Oh, he does. And they're in Hong Kong. A Valleywag tipster spotted Chen at the "posh" Four Seasons hotel. And by spotted, I mean she followed him to the hotel pool and then later took a picture of him while he ran on a treadmill. It gets creepier. "He has really great calves," our source reports. Details on Chen's entourage after the jump. More »
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Comment by Geekorama: I think Steve Chen is cute and I like his hair. No need to be rude! more » | Other threads
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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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Steve Chen, millionaire laptop "borrower"?
YouTube founder Steve Chen worked, briefly, at hot social network Facebook, after cofounding YouTube but before the video site took off. His short tenure there made, nevertheless, a lasting impression on the staff. "Steve Chen is notorious for never turning in his laptop," one Facebooker remarked when the YouTube founder's name came up in conversation. Chen, according to Facebook office gossip, never returned his Facebook-issued computer after leaving the company, despite requests for its return. A Google spokesman disputed this account, saying that Chen did return the laptop, and that Facebook CEO "Mark Zuckerberg is aware of it." Asked when the computer was returned, the Google spokesperson replied, "I assume when he left the company." And what do they say about assuming? More »
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Comment by bh: I am willing to bet that instead of *wiping* the drive, that steve would have formatted it, or just deleted... more » | Other threads
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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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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 » -
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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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