Tag archive: Hurley

Last month, YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen's Avos picked up venerable Internet bookmarking service Del.icio.us from Yahoo's cast-off pile—probably at a bargain rate. Now, they've made another deal, buying social media analytics outfit Tap11 for another undisclosed amount. Tap11 is an analytics company that (so far) is focused on tracking what people are talking about on Facebook and Twitter. Tap11′s… Read More

It’s that time of the year again, and last night saw the 11th annual Webby Awards in New York, as the Internetcelebrated itself   Each category had a Webby winner and a People’s Voice winner, and in several instances they were the same. BBC News snagged bothNews awards, while NPR won in the Podcasts. Last FM grabbed both Music Awards.   Pan’s Labyrinth was the unanimous choice for Movie of the Year, How Stuff Works… Read More

Naruto fans of the world look out: The Man wants to pull the plug on your YouTube fix. In a two-huor face-to-face meeting with a group of Japanese broadcasters and copyright holders, YouTube founders Cad Hurley and Steven Chen said that video sharing site YouTube will start posting a Japanese-language notice on its site warning users against uploading copyrighted material. However, so far the warning notice is the only concession Japanese… Read More

TiVo Inc. Monday announced a series of coordinated initiatives that will officially launch on August 11, 2004 to support the company's growth strategy. These initiatives include a new low priceof $99 after rebate, a newly designed TiVo box, and expansion of the TiVo retail footprint to some of the largest retailers in the country. These moves will be supported by a nationwide advertisingcampaign that kicked off this week, and an… Read More