Tag archive: Chad Hurley

Social bookmark sharing site Delicious has been reborn, with a new look and functionality that its foster parents hope will make it popular with the cool kids of the Internet. But will the new iteration of the site catch on with more than just a select few, as happened in the past? That's the question plaguing owners Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who purchased the site from Yahoo! in April. Along with their team at Avos, the company they… Read More

YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen have a new goal: Remake social bookmarking site Delicious so that it appeals to the general public, reports The New York Times. Their company, Avos, acquired Delicious in April after its previous owner, Yahoo, put it up for adoption due to the platform's inability to catch on with a broader audience. When AVOS took over Delicious, it was unclear what the Internet savants had in mind. Their… Read More

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is stepping down from the video sharing site's CEO position, with Google's Salar Kamangar stepping into the CEO role. Google bought YouTube back in 2006 for a then-stunning $1.6 billion, and at the F.ounders conference in Dublin last week, Hurley indicated he has been serving mostly in an advisory capacity for the last two years, with Kamangar handling the site's day-to-day operations.… Read More

Video sharing site YouTube has announced fully localized versions of the site are now available in nine countries—Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom—and says more internationalized versions of the site are on the way. “We're extremely excited to be offering YouTube in the languages of so many of our users, since it allows people to express themselves and… Read More