After making four documentary features about border conflicts, ethnicity, prostitution and human rights, Thai director Nontawat Numbenchapol picks up many of the same themes in his first fiction feature “Doi Boy.”
The film, which premieres this week in the Jiseok competition section of the Busan International Film Festival, is the story of three young men living on the margins of society in Thailand and their common quest for justice. The characters are an illegal immigrant from Myanmar working, despite his own heterosexuality, as a gay prostitute in Chiang Main, a customer and an on-the-run political activist he is trying to help.
The narrative takes in a large number of the social and political problems that have beset seemingly idyllic Thailand in recent years – undocumented workers, illegal immigrants fleeing the civil war in Myanmar, an oppressive political power structure, enforced ‘disappearance’ of those who the government’s political opponents and critics,...
The film, which premieres this week in the Jiseok competition section of the Busan International Film Festival, is the story of three young men living on the margins of society in Thailand and their common quest for justice. The characters are an illegal immigrant from Myanmar working, despite his own heterosexuality, as a gay prostitute in Chiang Main, a customer and an on-the-run political activist he is trying to help.
The narrative takes in a large number of the social and political problems that have beset seemingly idyllic Thailand in recent years – undocumented workers, illegal immigrants fleeing the civil war in Myanmar, an oppressive political power structure, enforced ‘disappearance’ of those who the government’s political opponents and critics,...
- 10/8/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
In November 2005, shortly after its founding that February, then-nascent YouTube landed its first ever funding round: $3.5 million from the Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. And in order to raise this capital, Attach -- a startup that enables users to share documents online -- has uncovered the original pitch deck that YouTube’s founders utilized to woo potential investors.
The 10-slide deck (below) lays out the reasons that former PayPal execs Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim founded YouTube. It describes how they sought to fill a white space by converting and serving videos that had been heretofore too large to host and share. “We are already moving eight terabytes of data per day through the YouTube community -- the equivalent of moving one Blockbuster store a day over the Internet,” Hurley stated rather presciently in a press release at the time.
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The 10-slide deck (below) lays out the reasons that former PayPal execs Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim founded YouTube. It describes how they sought to fill a white space by converting and serving videos that had been heretofore too large to host and share. “We are already moving eight terabytes of data per day through the YouTube community -- the equivalent of moving one Blockbuster store a day over the Internet,” Hurley stated rather presciently in a press release at the time.
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- 9/12/2016
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
Since he and his fellow YouTube co-founders sold their video site to Google in 2006, Steve Chen has thrown his weight behind a number of different ventures. His latest project is Nom, a video site that offers live streams centered around culinary topics.
The simplest way to describe Nom is as the “Twitch of food.” Broadcasters set up streams from their kitchens, and viewers will be able to interact with those broadcasters and send in their own responses. The most logical use of Nom is for live cooking shows, but the platform has other potential fringe uses. It could, for example, serve as a home for streams that emulate the Korean muk-bang format.
“Nom is a place for food lovers,” said Chen in a press release. “If you’ve ever snapped a picture of your dinner, Nom is for you. If you have a food blog and want to connect with a bigger audience,...
The simplest way to describe Nom is as the “Twitch of food.” Broadcasters set up streams from their kitchens, and viewers will be able to interact with those broadcasters and send in their own responses. The most logical use of Nom is for live cooking shows, but the platform has other potential fringe uses. It could, for example, serve as a home for streams that emulate the Korean muk-bang format.
“Nom is a place for food lovers,” said Chen in a press release. “If you’ve ever snapped a picture of your dinner, Nom is for you. If you have a food blog and want to connect with a bigger audience,...
- 3/9/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
A legal feud Kim Kardashian and Kanye West launched against one of the co-founders of YouTube has been settled. Chad Hurley, who in 2013 was accused of unlawfully filming KimYe’s engagement and uploading it to video site MixBit, has agreed to pay the power couple $440,000, according to TMZ.
Hurley, who co-founded YouTube in 2005 with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, managed to snag an invite to KimYe’s 2013 engagement ceremony, which took place at At&T Park in San Francisco. At the time, he was looking to drum up support for MixBit, a Vine-like online video service he and Chen had launched earlier that year. From his seat, Hurley shot footage of the ceremony and uploaded it to MixBit, where it quickly amassed several hundred thousand views.
The video’s existence did not sit well with the happy couple, who alleged Hurley had broken a confidentiality agreement he had previously signed.
Hurley, who co-founded YouTube in 2005 with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, managed to snag an invite to KimYe’s 2013 engagement ceremony, which took place at At&T Park in San Francisco. At the time, he was looking to drum up support for MixBit, a Vine-like online video service he and Chen had launched earlier that year. From his seat, Hurley shot footage of the ceremony and uploaded it to MixBit, where it quickly amassed several hundred thousand views.
The video’s existence did not sit well with the happy couple, who alleged Hurley had broken a confidentiality agreement he had previously signed.
- 8/27/2015
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
National Geographic's newest program is sure to interest online video fans. The cable television network will air a documentary called Generation YouTube on July 11, 2015.
Generation YouTube will cover the founding story of Google’s massive online video site before it became the massive cultural phenomenon it is today. A trailer for the National Geographic documentary shows interviews with YouTube’s founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who unknowingly created one of the most popular websites of all time from a garage in Silicon Valley, California.
YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005. Google’s online video site recently celebrated its 10th birthday this year by releasing a series of blog posts covering its impactful history. The posts covered topics such as kid-based memes which started on YouTube, animal videos, and “Gangnam Style,” the most-watched video of all time on the video site.
National Geographic will air Generation YouTube on its...
Generation YouTube will cover the founding story of Google’s massive online video site before it became the massive cultural phenomenon it is today. A trailer for the National Geographic documentary shows interviews with YouTube’s founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who unknowingly created one of the most popular websites of all time from a garage in Silicon Valley, California.
YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005. Google’s online video site recently celebrated its 10th birthday this year by releasing a series of blog posts covering its impactful history. The posts covered topics such as kid-based memes which started on YouTube, animal videos, and “Gangnam Style,” the most-watched video of all time on the video site.
National Geographic will air Generation YouTube on its...
- 7/10/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
When Jawed Karim, a Bangladeshi-German Internet entrepreneur, uploaded an 18-second video called “Me at the Zoo” to his new site called YouTube in April of 2005, he had no idea he was about to make history. A fresh-faced 25-year-old Karim can be seen talking to the camera about how elephants “have really, really, really long, um, trunks.” As the company celebrates its 10-year anniversary, that elephant video has been viewed more than 22 million times. Karim — and fellow YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen — quickly proved just how remarkable their little idea was: the video streaming site, acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion,...
- 5/7/2015
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
When former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim first came up with the idea to create a video-sharing site in 2005, they had no clue just what would unfold years later. On Feb. 14 that year, YouTube was launched, and on April 23, an 18 second clip uploaded by Karim titled "Me at the zoo" became the site's very first shared video. Read More Sundance: YouTube Network Fullscreen Launches Film Division (Exclusive) Ten years down the road, YouTube has become a global phenomenon with over 1 billion users and 300 hours of video uploaded onto the
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- 2/14/2015
- by Meena Jang
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It’s hard to imagine a world without YouTube and its plethora of cat videos, comical failure clips, daily vlogs from world-renowned digital celebrities, and purposefully-entertaining videos from burgeoning and established content creators around the globe. Yet, just 10 short years ago, the world didn't have this massive online video sharing site where everyone with an internet connection could watch all of the above kinds of programming and more.
Tomorrow, February 14, 2015, marks the ten-year anniversary of the day three ex-PayPal employees (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim) founded the online video site now owned by Google. To celebrate YouTube’s birthday, here are five facts about the video platform and how internet users have interacted with it up to this point:
The first video uploaded to YouTube wasn’t until April 23, 2005.
February 14 merely marks the day Hurley, Chen, and Karim registered the domain name youtube.com. It wasn’t until...
Tomorrow, February 14, 2015, marks the ten-year anniversary of the day three ex-PayPal employees (Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim) founded the online video site now owned by Google. To celebrate YouTube’s birthday, here are five facts about the video platform and how internet users have interacted with it up to this point:
The first video uploaded to YouTube wasn’t until April 23, 2005.
February 14 merely marks the day Hurley, Chen, and Karim registered the domain name youtube.com. It wasn’t until...
- 2/13/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Let’s look at the bright side!
Some rituals help keep us focused throughout the year. This marks the 4th time I have looked back at all the good things that occurred in the film biz and listed them out for all of us. Tracking them through year, keeps me from abandoning hope. Sometimes they may just be the silver lining in the storm cloud, but nonetheless they keep me going, keep me convinced that in fact we truly are: building it better together. I hope they do something close to that for you. It’s been a good year, and I have thirty two morsels to tempt you with. And of course the year’s not through yet, so perhaps you have some to add to this too.
If you’ve encountered elements of this list earlier on my postings in Film Comment and on Keyframe, pay careful attention...
Some rituals help keep us focused throughout the year. This marks the 4th time I have looked back at all the good things that occurred in the film biz and listed them out for all of us. Tracking them through year, keeps me from abandoning hope. Sometimes they may just be the silver lining in the storm cloud, but nonetheless they keep me going, keep me convinced that in fact we truly are: building it better together. I hope they do something close to that for you. It’s been a good year, and I have thirty two morsels to tempt you with. And of course the year’s not through yet, so perhaps you have some to add to this too.
If you’ve encountered elements of this list earlier on my postings in Film Comment and on Keyframe, pay careful attention...
- 12/5/2014
- by Ted Hope
- Hope for Film
One of Japan’s biggest telecommunications companies, SoftBank Internet and Media, Inc. (Simi), has just announced its acquisition of DramaFever, a streaming video-on-demand website which specializes in international television shows and movies. Founded in 2009 by Seung Bak and Suk Park, New York-based DramaFever quickly moved from startup to successful online video business. The site raised over $12 million in funding from such giants as AMC Networks, Mk Capital, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, and the SoftBank Group itself. "In five short years since going live, DramaFever has built an impressive internet-based streaming video business operating at scale,” said Nikesh Arora, Vice Chairman of SoftBank Corp. and CEO of Simi, in the release. “Seung Bak and Suk Park have a proven business model in a dynamic industry, and we look forward to helping them bring their highly popular video content to an even larger global audience.” DramaFever Co-Founder and Co-ceo, Suk Park, added,...
- 10/14/2014
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Two of the UK's most prominent multi-channel networks (MCNs) have come together in a multi-million dollar deal. Rightster, which operates a YouTube network consisting of more than 800 channels, has acquired Base79, whose partners include more than 300 brands. As reported by The Guardian, the deal is worth a base price of £25 million, which equals close to $42.7 million. If Base79 hits certain performance incentives within one year, the price tag will double to £50 million (~$85.4 million). In order to raise money for this acquisition, Rightster--which is a publicly traded company--has brought some new shareholders on board. That group of new investors includes Chad Hurley, the YouTube co-founder, who recently parted ways with longtime business partner Steve Chen. Both Rightster and Base79 specialize in rights management, and they both manage the YouTube channels of top international brands. Rightster recently bolstered its network through a partnership with Scripps, while Base79 is allied with The Jim...
- 7/8/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Jan Riemens built one of the largest online video networks in the world without YouTube. That sounds apocryphal now that YouTube reaches more than one billion people a month, but Riemens founded his company, Zoomin.TV, before Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim's invention took off. “We wanted to create content for online even before YouTube, and we started producing news, entertainment, sports games, how-to videos,” Riemens told TheWrap. “We went to publishers, who integrated our videos into their articles.” Also read: Can the Hits of DreamWorks Animation's Past Power Its Future on YouTube? As the Dutch company conquered Europe,...
- 6/17/2014
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
The duo that formed two-thirds of YouTube's founding team have decided to split up. Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, who co-founded Avos Systems four years after selling YouTube to Google, are going their separate ways, with Chen leaving the company to join the Google Ventures team. Hurley and Chen have worked together for the past 15 years. They met while both working at PayPal before creating YouTube in 2005 (alongside third co-founder Jawed Karim). At Avos, Hurley and Chen worked on a number of different projects until February 2014, when Avos laid off most of its employees in order to focus entirely on MixBit, the video capture app founded by Hurley and Chen in August 2013. According to TechCrunch, Chen is leaving Avos in order to avoid "getting in the way of MixBit and the team." MixBit was Hurley's baby all along, so Chen has decided to go pursue other opportunities with the Google Ventures team.
- 6/6/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen's new company just laid off a significant portion of its workforce, but the YouTube co-founders insist that their relatively new online video platform is in good shape. Despite reports that Hurley and Chen's Avos Systems has laid off 80% of its employees, the company is apparently "all in" on MixBit, the app that allows users to shoot, edit, and "remix" video clips. Avos' holdings include a few notable web properties, including bookmarking site Delicious, but the company seems as if it will now devote the bulk of its resources to MixBit. “MixBit is most definitely not shutting down, quite the opposite," Avos said in a statement. "We’re really excited about MixBit and have been focusing our efforts around it. You can expect many new features very soon." Hurley said the same thing, albeit in a much more flippant tone, in a pair of tweets...
- 2/5/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today that acclaimed filmmaker Peter Jackson, visual effects artist Joe Letteri and Weta Digital will receive the Producers Guild’s 2014 Vanguard Award. The award will be presented to Jackson, Letteri and Weta Digital at the 25th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Sunday, January 19th at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.
Jackson and Letteri‘s Academy Award-winning visual effects powerhouse Weta Digital is a world leader in all areas of digital visual effects production, having created some of the most astounding effects ever seen onscreen. Their motion picture credits include such hits as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Avatar and King Kong, among many others.
The Producers Guild’s Vanguard Award recognizes achievements in new media and technology. Previous recipients include James Cameron, Stan Lee, George Lucas, John Lasseter, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen,...
Jackson and Letteri‘s Academy Award-winning visual effects powerhouse Weta Digital is a world leader in all areas of digital visual effects production, having created some of the most astounding effects ever seen onscreen. Their motion picture credits include such hits as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, Avatar and King Kong, among many others.
The Producers Guild’s Vanguard Award recognizes achievements in new media and technology. Previous recipients include James Cameron, Stan Lee, George Lucas, John Lasseter, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen,...
- 11/11/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Past recipients include James Cameron, Stan Lee, George Lucas and John Lasseter.
The Producers Guild of America has has tapped Peter Jackson, visual effects artist Joe Letteri and Weta Digital for its 2014 Vanguard Award.
The award will be presented to the three honorees at the 25th annual PGA ceremony Jan. 19 at the Beverly Hilton.
Video: 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Trailer 3
Jackson and Letteri's Academy Award-winning visual effects company Weta Digital is a trailblazer in all areas of digital visual effects production, having created some of the most celebrated effects ever seen onscreen. Their film credits include such hits as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Avatar and King Kong, among many others.
The Vanguard Award recognizes achievements in new media and technology. Previous recipients include James Cameron, Stan Lee, George Lucas, John Lasseter, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and...
The Producers Guild of America has has tapped Peter Jackson, visual effects artist Joe Letteri and Weta Digital for its 2014 Vanguard Award.
The award will be presented to the three honorees at the 25th annual PGA ceremony Jan. 19 at the Beverly Hilton.
Video: 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Trailer 3
Jackson and Letteri's Academy Award-winning visual effects company Weta Digital is a trailblazer in all areas of digital visual effects production, having created some of the most celebrated effects ever seen onscreen. Their film credits include such hits as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Avatar and King Kong, among many others.
The Vanguard Award recognizes achievements in new media and technology. Previous recipients include James Cameron, Stan Lee, George Lucas, John Lasseter, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen and...
- 11/11/2013
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Producers Guild of America (PGA) will honor Peter Jackson, visual effects artist Joe Letteri and Weta Digital with the Producers Guild’s 2014 Vanguard Award, which recognizes advancements in new media and technology. It will be presented at the 25th Annual Producers Guild Awards ceremony on January 19. Jackson and Letteri‘s Oscar-winning visual effects powerhouse Weta Digital includes in its resume the ongoing “Hobbit” trilogy, “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, “Avatar” and “King Kong,” among many others. Previous Vanguard recipients include James Cameron, Stan Lee, George Lucas, John Lasseter, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, and game designer Will Wright.
- 11/11/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
The star of Kanye West’s proposal to Kim Kardashian on Monday, October 21 at At&T Park in San Francisco was not the #1 rockstar on the planet or the reality-star-slash-burgeoning-retail-and-fashion mogul. It wasn’t the 50-piece orchestra that played Lana Del Rey's Young and Beautiful and Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo and Kanye's Knock You Down. Nor was it the 15-carat diamond ring designed by celebrity jeweler Lorraine Schwartz. And it most certainly was not the jumbotron that read “Pleeease Marry Mee!!!” and the accompanying fireworks. The real star of the Kimye engagement was MixBit. The online video platform and mobile application created by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen was home to one of the first publicized recordings of the proposal. The video - recorded, edited, and uploaded by Hurley himself (and yes, he was one of the hundred or so attendees) - was embedded into online news reports...
- 10/24/2013
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com
In true Kardashian style, Kanye West's proposal to Kim has been captured on film. Photos: Kanye West's 20 Most Jaw-Dropping Quotes But the first look at West's over-the-top gesture, in which he rented out San Francisco's At&T Park and presented the mother of his child with a whopping 15-carat sparkler, has hit the web courtesy of MixBit -- a new video service introduced by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. The two-and-a-half-minute video, courtesy of Hurley, actually consists of 15 shorter clips, documenting the evening's lights and orchestra show, West dropping
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- 10/23/2013
- by Sophie Schillaci
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hello and welcome to the state of the online video world. If you would like to skip this post and jump right to the point, this is your lucky day because the conclusion is right here: YouTube has literally Destroyed - with a capital Destroyed - the video ad market. What started out as a standard and relatively reasonable benchmark of $25 Cpm (Fyi, Cpm is the cost to an advertiser for 1,000 views of an advertisement) for both broadcast sales and online video sales just a few years ago, is now down now to around a $2 take home this year. But we’re not done yet! If you’re part of a new Multi Channel Network (aka McN), take off another % for the network. If you signed up through a third-party to be part of that network, go ahead and (in most cases) cut out another % to hand over to them.
- 10/21/2013
- by Andrew Baron
- Tubefilter.com
Disney Animated, Tube Map Live, Glow, Radio Alan: The Alan Partridge Player, Fetch – A Boy and his Dog, Mister Maker, Worms 3, Google AdSense and more
It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.
It covers apps and games, with the prices referring to the initial download: so (Free) may mean (Freemium) in some cases. There's a separate roundup for Android apps, which was published earlier in the day.
For now, read on for this week's iOS selection (and when you've finished, check out previous Best iPhone and iPad apps posts).
Disney Animated (£9.99)
An enormous treat for Disney fans, this. It's an app covering the animation in all 53 of the studio's movies, starting in 1937 with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The app digs deep into concept art, painted backgrounds, storyboards and the transition from hand-drawn to computer-animated scenes, including...
It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.
It covers apps and games, with the prices referring to the initial download: so (Free) may mean (Freemium) in some cases. There's a separate roundup for Android apps, which was published earlier in the day.
For now, read on for this week's iOS selection (and when you've finished, check out previous Best iPhone and iPad apps posts).
Disney Animated (£9.99)
An enormous treat for Disney fans, this. It's an app covering the animation in all 53 of the studio's movies, starting in 1937 with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The app digs deep into concept art, painted backgrounds, storyboards and the transition from hand-drawn to computer-animated scenes, including...
- 8/9/2013
- by Stuart Dredge
- The Guardian - Film News
YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have spent the last few months teasing MixBit, their newest foray into online video sharing. As more details emerged about the emergent platform, we understood it to be an 'Instagram for video' meant to function alongside YouTube rather than against it. The completed is now publicly available, and we were close: MixBit is a Vine competitor with a heavy focus on editing video on the fly. As with Vine, MixBit's main attraction is a mobile app that lets users capture video at the touch of a button. At the same time, MixBit also takes a page from Instagram's book by letting users easily edit footage into longer videos, a feature unavailable on Vine. Though MixBit has a nominal max length of eight seconds, it encourages amateur filmmakers to stitch together captured footage with other videos from around the web. Some Vine users already...
- 8/8/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have launched MixBit, a new video-sharing application that enters a marketplace already occupied by a pair of other moneyed competitors -- Twitter's Vine and Facebook's Instagram. The app launches in Apple's iOS store on Thursday. An Android version is in the offing. Hurley and Chen hope MixBit will stand apart from the field by encouraging users to toy with videos uploaded by others. Users can not only play with editing software to alter with their own videos, they can remix videos already on the service. Vine...
- 8/8/2013
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen are taking on Vine and Instagram with a new video service. Hurley and Chen's MixBit lets you record, edit and share videos, and you can mix clips from other users to create movies that are much longer than Vine and Instagram's short clips. You can record clips as long as 16 seconds and put as many as 256 clips in a single video, so finished movies can be more than an hour long. Story: YouTube to Open Creator Space in New York City in 2014 And you can mix together other clips
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- 8/8/2013
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
YouTube was designed to make it easy for people to share videos, but its co-founder Chad Hurley tells me that “we were never able to provide tools for people to create better content.” He and fellow co-founder Steve Chen, who now run a company called Avos Systems, hope to fix that beginning today with the launch of MixBit. They’re offering a free mobile phone app (initially for iPhones, one for Android coming soon). It enables users to shoot 16-second clips and then drag and drop as many as 256 of them into a sequence to create a video lasting up to an hour, which can then be published. The goal is to make it simple. Unlike Vine and Instagram, MixBit won’t offer filters or effects, and it only uses audio recorded by the phone. Users also can edit videos at a web site, MixBit.com, and share clips with...
- 8/8/2013
- by DAVID LIEBERMAN, Financial Editor
- Deadline TV
Wimbledon 2013, Toca Builders, Soundwave, Where's My Mickey, ITN, Xcom: Enemy Unknown, CloudSpotter, Bee-friend Your Garden and more
It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.
It covers apps and games, with the prices referring to the initial download: so (Free) may mean (Freemium) in some cases. There's a separate roundup for Android apps, which was published earlier in the day.
For now, read on for this week's iOS selection (and when you've finished, check out previous Best iPhone and iPad apps posts).
The Championships, Wimbledon 2013 for iPad (Free)
Wimbledon is kicking off again today! Well, the tennis equivalent of kicking off, anyway. This year, there's an official iPad app from the All England Lawn Tennis Club, providing live scores, results and stats, draws and play schedules, and profiles of players. It'll also stream live radio, and a live video show with interviews,...
It's time for our weekly roundup of brand new and notable apps for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices.
It covers apps and games, with the prices referring to the initial download: so (Free) may mean (Freemium) in some cases. There's a separate roundup for Android apps, which was published earlier in the day.
For now, read on for this week's iOS selection (and when you've finished, check out previous Best iPhone and iPad apps posts).
The Championships, Wimbledon 2013 for iPad (Free)
Wimbledon is kicking off again today! Well, the tennis equivalent of kicking off, anyway. This year, there's an official iPad app from the All England Lawn Tennis Club, providing live scores, results and stats, draws and play schedules, and profiles of players. It'll also stream live radio, and a live video show with interviews,...
- 6/24/2013
- by Stuart Dredge
- The Guardian - Film News
The rise of Vine has been arguably the most important online video storyline in 2013 (and, unless the Koreans have any more ideas, expect it to stay that way). The easy-to-use video app has seen a dramatic rise in popularity; earlier this month, it surpassed Instagram in terms of shares. However, Facebook's image sharing service is fighting back. At a press event, it announced an update that will allow users to capture videos in addition to taking photos. The move continues a growing trend, with anyone who's anyone in social media seeking to capture a bit of that Vine magic. YouTube has been constantly updating its Capture app. On the other side of the globe, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen launched Wanpai, a blatantly ripped-off Chinese version of Twitter's superstar app. Many similar products, such as Cinemagram and Viddy, have attempted to put unique spins on the simple science of instant video.
- 6/17/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Australian entrepreneur Kate Kendall is moving to Silicon Valley to team up with the founders of YouTube to help launch publishing website called Zeen.com.
Kendall, founder of The Fetch, an online guide for digital and creative communities, will be heading up marketing and communications for Zeen.com’s parent company Avos.
A launch date for Zeen.com, an online magazine site, has yet to be confirmed.
Kendall met YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley through Melbourne entrepreneur Tim Bull, whose company Trunk.ly was acquired by Avos late last year.
Before The Fetch, Kendall was the digital director of Niche Media. She has worked across titles such as Dumbo Feather, The Conversation, Marketing, Desktop and Macworld. She started out as an editor and journalist.
Kendall said in a press release: “I was in town and got chatting to the team over Mexican food, which is always the way.
Kendall, founder of The Fetch, an online guide for digital and creative communities, will be heading up marketing and communications for Zeen.com’s parent company Avos.
A launch date for Zeen.com, an online magazine site, has yet to be confirmed.
Kendall met YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley through Melbourne entrepreneur Tim Bull, whose company Trunk.ly was acquired by Avos late last year.
Before The Fetch, Kendall was the digital director of Niche Media. She has worked across titles such as Dumbo Feather, The Conversation, Marketing, Desktop and Macworld. She started out as an editor and journalist.
Kendall said in a press release: “I was in town and got chatting to the team over Mexican food, which is always the way.
- 4/20/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
It's a good year for Stan Lee. "Thor" and "Captain America: The First Avenger" have laid the groundwork for "The Avengers" next year. He got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January. The Visual Effects Society has tapped him for a lifetime achievement honor, and the awards just keep coming. Today the Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced that the comic book legend will receive its Vanguard Award this year. The prize recognizes achievements in new media and technology. Previous recipients include George Lucas, John Lasster and YouTube founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Will Wright. “I am...
- 11/9/2011
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
In light of Mark S. Zuckerberg losing his Facebook page, we examine some of the regular (or not-quite-regular) folk who share names with the titans of tech innovation. Which Bill Gates--the famous billionaire, or the other one--do you think has a tougher time of it?
This week, Mark Zuckerberg got kicked off of Facebook. Mark S. Zuckerberg--not Mark E. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Mark S. Zuckerberg is a bankruptcy attorney in Indianapolis, selected as a "Super Lawyer" for 2011 by Indianapolis Monthly Magazine. Facebook employees mistook his account for a hoax, briefly giving him the boot.
Mark Zuckerberg, the lawyer, finds all this annoying, though he concedes on his setting-the-record-straight site, IamMarkZuckerberg.com, that there are "worse things."
Mark S. Zuckerberg is not the only American who has had to contend with sharing the name of a famous technology entrepreneur. Here are a few others who are contantly having to repeat their names,...
This week, Mark Zuckerberg got kicked off of Facebook. Mark S. Zuckerberg--not Mark E. Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. Mark S. Zuckerberg is a bankruptcy attorney in Indianapolis, selected as a "Super Lawyer" for 2011 by Indianapolis Monthly Magazine. Facebook employees mistook his account for a hoax, briefly giving him the boot.
Mark Zuckerberg, the lawyer, finds all this annoying, though he concedes on his setting-the-record-straight site, IamMarkZuckerberg.com, that there are "worse things."
Mark S. Zuckerberg is not the only American who has had to contend with sharing the name of a famous technology entrepreneur. Here are a few others who are contantly having to repeat their names,...
- 5/13/2011
- by David Zax
- Fast Company
1. Hot rumors are circulating this morning that Apple has bought the domain name iCloud.com from network cloud storage firm Xcerion in Sweden. Inside sources say Xcerion sold the name to Apple for about $4.5 million--and it's rebranded its system to CloudMe. This news, of course, has everyone excited that Apple's embrace of cloud services with a MobileMe revamp is imminent (bringing with it cloud streaming in iTunes).
2. Yahoo has revealed that Delicious has been acquired by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, ready to become part of their new Net venture Avos. Users have to agree to transfer their bookmarks from Yahoo's servers to Avos' if they want to keep using the bookmark sharing/site discovery service. Excitement is now building about Avos, thanks to Hurley and Chen's experience in building YouTube and PayPal before that.
3. Panasonic's announced it's cutting another 17,000 jobs from its workforce (around 5% of the total) over the next three years.
2. Yahoo has revealed that Delicious has been acquired by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, ready to become part of their new Net venture Avos. Users have to agree to transfer their bookmarks from Yahoo's servers to Avos' if they want to keep using the bookmark sharing/site discovery service. Excitement is now building about Avos, thanks to Hurley and Chen's experience in building YouTube and PayPal before that.
3. Panasonic's announced it's cutting another 17,000 jobs from its workforce (around 5% of the total) over the next three years.
- 4/28/2011
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day.
Pepsi's Social Vending Machine
A prototype vending machine that allows Pepsi fans to purchase drinks for one another across similar machines will be unveiled this week at a trade show in Chicago. The advance is part of Pepsi's hyper-social push, which began with "Refresh" and more recently included the debut of a 100% plant-based bottle. -- Updated, 6:43 p.m.
Ebay Boasts Higher-Than-Expected Earnings
Meg Whitman's fate hasn't befallen auction giant, Ebay, which just posted a 16% revenue increase to $2.5 billion. Ebay's been on an acquisition spending spree, looking to expand its empire into everything from bar-code scanner tech to fashion. -- Updated, 6:43 p.m.
Twitter Prepares for Royal Wedding Traffic Onslaught
Twitter CEO Biz Stone is shown prepping for the "Wills & Kate" traffic with its very own server. Even with all eyes on the royals,...
Pepsi's Social Vending Machine
A prototype vending machine that allows Pepsi fans to purchase drinks for one another across similar machines will be unveiled this week at a trade show in Chicago. The advance is part of Pepsi's hyper-social push, which began with "Refresh" and more recently included the debut of a 100% plant-based bottle. -- Updated, 6:43 p.m.
Ebay Boasts Higher-Than-Expected Earnings
Meg Whitman's fate hasn't befallen auction giant, Ebay, which just posted a 16% revenue increase to $2.5 billion. Ebay's been on an acquisition spending spree, looking to expand its empire into everything from bar-code scanner tech to fashion. -- Updated, 6:43 p.m.
Twitter Prepares for Royal Wedding Traffic Onslaught
Twitter CEO Biz Stone is shown prepping for the "Wills & Kate" traffic with its very own server. Even with all eyes on the royals,...
- 4/27/2011
- by Gregory Ferenstein
- Fast Company
Maximum cool: YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar (front) and his team: Margaret Stewart (user experience), Shishir Mehrotra (monetization), Hunter Walk (product), and Robert Kyncl (TV and film) | Photographs by Robyn Twomey
Star Maker: Kamangar loves that YouTube is creating the stars of tomorrow-and that advertisers want in. | Photograph by Robyn Twomey
YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar and his team have transformed Google's Folly into a mind-blowing -- and lucrative -- global platform that is redefining the entertainment business.
Discovery Network: Stewart's goal is to make sure there's a flood of personalized content waiting for users every time they visit YouTube. | Photograph by Robyn Twomey
Salar Kamangar floats unnoticed through YouTube's sprawling San Bruno, California, offices dressed in a navy blue hooded sweater and jeans, laptop cocked on his hip. he might as well be just another anonymous, nomadic programmer rather than YouTube's newly named CEO.
The exceedingly shy 34-year-old...
Star Maker: Kamangar loves that YouTube is creating the stars of tomorrow-and that advertisers want in. | Photograph by Robyn Twomey
YouTube CEO Salar Kamangar and his team have transformed Google's Folly into a mind-blowing -- and lucrative -- global platform that is redefining the entertainment business.
Discovery Network: Stewart's goal is to make sure there's a flood of personalized content waiting for users every time they visit YouTube. | Photograph by Robyn Twomey
Salar Kamangar floats unnoticed through YouTube's sprawling San Bruno, California, offices dressed in a navy blue hooded sweater and jeans, laptop cocked on his hip. he might as well be just another anonymous, nomadic programmer rather than YouTube's newly named CEO.
The exceedingly shy 34-year-old...
- 1/31/2011
- by Danielle Sacks
- Fast Company
Chad Hurley is relinquishing his post as CEO of YouTube, the company he co-founded five years ago that revolutionized video on the Internet.
Hurley said he’ll remain an adviser but that Salar Kamangar, vp of product management, will become CEO.
Hurley, along with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, launched YouTube in December, 2005, and sold it a year later to Google for $1.65 billion. Chen left the company two years ago and Karim left earlier.
Hurley and Chen each earned $350 million from their sale of YouTube to Google, while Karim’s share was $64 million.
Kamangar, an early Google employee, has been running the day-to-day operation of YouTube for a couple of years and he is credited with concocting inventive ways to monetize the massive traffic it attracts.
YouTube’s launch ushered in the era of “user-generated-content,” or Ugc, and it was that sort of amateur video that remained its most popular.
Hurley said he’ll remain an adviser but that Salar Kamangar, vp of product management, will become CEO.
Hurley, along with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, launched YouTube in December, 2005, and sold it a year later to Google for $1.65 billion. Chen left the company two years ago and Karim left earlier.
Hurley and Chen each earned $350 million from their sale of YouTube to Google, while Karim’s share was $64 million.
Kamangar, an early Google employee, has been running the day-to-day operation of YouTube for a couple of years and he is credited with concocting inventive ways to monetize the massive traffic it attracts.
YouTube’s launch ushered in the era of “user-generated-content,” or Ugc, and it was that sort of amateur video that remained its most popular.
- 10/29/2010
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The trailer for The Video Website, a fictitious new movie that purports to document the creation of YouTube, is essentially a scene-by-scene response to the trailer for The Social Network, the Aaron Sorkin–David Fincher project about the rise of Facebook. A haunting instrumental cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” plays as the camera pans over YouTube’s sometimes unsavory comments section (think lingering shots of the world “Fail” and spam messages), and YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen argue about the increasing financial demands of the Keyboard Cat. “I’m talking about taking the entire humiliating experience of home videos and putting it online,” the Hurley character says, nearly out of breath and furiously typing. “This is happening faster than any of us imagined! We don’t have enough videos of adorable laughing babies!” Chen yells. At this point, it becomes clear that the footage is mere fiction: everyone...
- 8/4/2010
- Vanity Fair
This interview is part of our ongoing series related to The Influence Project.
Not long ago I had lunch with the vlogger and lifecaster Sarah Austin. We ate on the patio at Aureole and not ten minutes in she asked if I we could shoot our interview for a reality show she is doing. She said she'd send me what she wanted to use before it went live and wouldn't ask for a release until I gave her approval.
I agreed and she rolled tape.
Looking back, I realize this is what Austin does. She turns her life into content. And at the same time she is reinventing not only what it means to be a media personality, but is also defining the concept of the individual being the new network.
Austin hosts a weekly Webcast on Justin.tv/pop17 that attracts 50,000 viewers and has been endorsed by, among others,...
Not long ago I had lunch with the vlogger and lifecaster Sarah Austin. We ate on the patio at Aureole and not ten minutes in she asked if I we could shoot our interview for a reality show she is doing. She said she'd send me what she wanted to use before it went live and wouldn't ask for a release until I gave her approval.
I agreed and she rolled tape.
Looking back, I realize this is what Austin does. She turns her life into content. And at the same time she is reinventing not only what it means to be a media personality, but is also defining the concept of the individual being the new network.
Austin hosts a weekly Webcast on Justin.tv/pop17 that attracts 50,000 viewers and has been endorsed by, among others,...
- 7/19/2010
- by Mark Borden
- Fast Company
The U.S. District Court has just made public the documentation in the controversial Viacom vs. YouTube case. It's a goldmine of data, most of which is really dirty mud-slinging by Viacom, based on internal emails from YouTube's past.
Google's been quick off the mark to react to the unsealing of the court documents, and has a blog post defending its position and decrying Viacom's tactics already. Viacom's argument, it says, is based on misconstruing "isolated lines from a handful of emails" from way back in YouTube's history, and spinning this information into the suggestion that YouTube was "founded with bad intentions." The post also alleges that Viacom "secretly uploaded its content to YouTube," and then roughed up the footage to make it appear to have been leaked.
Viacom is trying to portray that YouTube was built on the principles of making money from out-and-out piracy, and that...
Google's been quick off the mark to react to the unsealing of the court documents, and has a blog post defending its position and decrying Viacom's tactics already. Viacom's argument, it says, is based on misconstruing "isolated lines from a handful of emails" from way back in YouTube's history, and spinning this information into the suggestion that YouTube was "founded with bad intentions." The post also alleges that Viacom "secretly uploaded its content to YouTube," and then roughed up the footage to make it appear to have been leaked.
Viacom is trying to portray that YouTube was built on the principles of making money from out-and-out piracy, and that...
- 3/18/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Faced with claims that it encourages piracy, YouTube accuses its rival of sour grapes - as well as claiming it ran covert operations to upload thousands of videos to the site
American media conglomerate Viacom considered buying YouTube just months before it launched a $1bn (£655m) piracy lawsuit against the video sharing site, according to court documents.
Files released today by a Us court suggest that the television giant - which owns channels including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central - had considered purchasing YouTube in 2006 in what executives said could prove a "transformative acquisition".
That deal was scotched when YouTube was bought later that year by internet leviathan Google for $1.65bn - shortly before Viacom launched its billion-dollar lawsuit accusing YouTube of "massive intentional copyright infringement".
The claims have come to light after the Us court hearing the case unsealed hundreds of documents as it prepares to make a ruling on Viacom's claims.
American media conglomerate Viacom considered buying YouTube just months before it launched a $1bn (£655m) piracy lawsuit against the video sharing site, according to court documents.
Files released today by a Us court suggest that the television giant - which owns channels including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central - had considered purchasing YouTube in 2006 in what executives said could prove a "transformative acquisition".
That deal was scotched when YouTube was bought later that year by internet leviathan Google for $1.65bn - shortly before Viacom launched its billion-dollar lawsuit accusing YouTube of "massive intentional copyright infringement".
The claims have come to light after the Us court hearing the case unsealed hundreds of documents as it prepares to make a ruling on Viacom's claims.
- 3/18/2010
- by Bobbie Johnson
- The Guardian - Film News
When it came out, YouTube was seen as the best thing that had ever happened to the Web. Suddenly, it was easy to watch videos online, and uploading and embedding became, for the first time ever, a doddle. No wonder Google pounced on it like a starving coyote.
Fast forward a couple of years, and YouTube had begun to look like the MySpace of the video sites. It's got its carbon copies, such as DailyMotion, but companies like Vimeo have taken Chad Hurley and Steve Chen's ball and run with it--for miles.
Until today. A cheeky little announcement on the YouTube blog states that the site will soon be supporting 1080p HD videos. Yes. Big. Videos. And Great quality. "As resolution of consumer cameras increases, we want to make sure YouTube is the best home on the web to showcase your content." (Translation: we've been a bit deer-in-the-headlights about our competition,...
Fast forward a couple of years, and YouTube had begun to look like the MySpace of the video sites. It's got its carbon copies, such as DailyMotion, but companies like Vimeo have taken Chad Hurley and Steve Chen's ball and run with it--for miles.
Until today. A cheeky little announcement on the YouTube blog states that the site will soon be supporting 1080p HD videos. Yes. Big. Videos. And Great quality. "As resolution of consumer cameras increases, we want to make sure YouTube is the best home on the web to showcase your content." (Translation: we've been a bit deer-in-the-headlights about our competition,...
- 11/13/2009
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
Why do Americans need to attach creation myths to everything, including the origins of our most visible business ventures? We idealize the lone inventor over the company man, the garage over the office space. We tell the story of Apple Computer not as that of two former Atari and Hewlett-Packard employees launching their own product, but two starry-eyed inventors in a garage, building a dream from scratch.
This American Life host Ira Glass put the question to Fast Company columnist Dan Heath earlier this morning, and his answer reveals a lot about our business culture. When we don't have a garage, we make up something else, like the widely believed (and now discredited) story about YouTube's founding: According to myth, founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley planted the seed for YouTube while trying unsuccessfully to upload video they'd taken at a dinner party to the Web. The story, the founders have since said,...
This American Life host Ira Glass put the question to Fast Company columnist Dan Heath earlier this morning, and his answer reveals a lot about our business culture. When we don't have a garage, we make up something else, like the widely believed (and now discredited) story about YouTube's founding: According to myth, founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley planted the seed for YouTube while trying unsuccessfully to upload video they'd taken at a dinner party to the Web. The story, the founders have since said,...
- 6/22/2009
- by Clay Dillow
- Fast Company
She's dominated TV talk for decades. Her recommendations send shockwaves through the publishing industry, She's even conquered Broadway. And now, Oprah is set to go viral.
Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Prods. has announced a partnership with YouTube to launch a new Oprah channel on the video site. The new channel, which went live Friday, features a collection of supplemental video from "The Oprah Winfrey Show", including backstage footage, highlights from guests' appearances, and even videos that Oprah has shot herself.
To help kick off interest in the new partnership, Oprah has booked YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen to appear on her show Tuesday. Oprah will also feature several YouTube-discovered stars on the program, including Tyson the skateboarding dog and Judson Laipply, the creator the much-streamed Evolution of Dance clip.
Also, Oprah will guest edit YouTube on Monday and Tuesday, when she will present some of her favorite videos.
Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Prods. has announced a partnership with YouTube to launch a new Oprah channel on the video site. The new channel, which went live Friday, features a collection of supplemental video from "The Oprah Winfrey Show", including backstage footage, highlights from guests' appearances, and even videos that Oprah has shot herself.
To help kick off interest in the new partnership, Oprah has booked YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen to appear on her show Tuesday. Oprah will also feature several YouTube-discovered stars on the program, including Tyson the skateboarding dog and Judson Laipply, the creator the much-streamed Evolution of Dance clip.
Also, Oprah will guest edit YouTube on Monday and Tuesday, when she will present some of her favorite videos.
- 11/3/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
She's dominated TV talk for decades. Her recommendations send shockwaves through the publishing industry, She's even conquered Broadway. And now, Oprah Winfrey is set to go viral.
Winfrey's Harpo Productions has announced a partnership with YouTube to launch a new Oprah channel on the ever popular video site. The new channel, which went live Friday, features a collection of supplemental video from The Oprah Winfrey Show, including backstage footage, highlights from guests' appearances, and even videos that Winfrey has shot herself.
To help kick off interest in the new partnership, Winfrey has booked YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen to appear on her show Tuesday. Winfrey will also feature several YouTube-discovered stars on the program, including Tyson the skateboarding dog and Judson Laipply, the creator the much-streamed Evolution of Dance clip. Also, Winfrey will guest edit YouTube on Monday and Tuesday, when she will present some of her favorite videos.
Winfrey's Harpo Productions has announced a partnership with YouTube to launch a new Oprah channel on the ever popular video site. The new channel, which went live Friday, features a collection of supplemental video from The Oprah Winfrey Show, including backstage footage, highlights from guests' appearances, and even videos that Winfrey has shot herself.
To help kick off interest in the new partnership, Winfrey has booked YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen to appear on her show Tuesday. Winfrey will also feature several YouTube-discovered stars on the program, including Tyson the skateboarding dog and Judson Laipply, the creator the much-streamed Evolution of Dance clip. Also, Winfrey will guest edit YouTube on Monday and Tuesday, when she will present some of her favorite videos.
- 11/3/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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