YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley announces New video site MixBit

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Chad Hurley, one of YouTube’s two co-founders, unveiled a new website on Monday called MixBit that promises to give users a new way to share and create videos. The website isn’t live yet, but users can sign up to be invited when it officially launches.

 

MixBit’s current landing page lets users enter their email address to be notified of the actual launch, while poking fun at a Google April Fools’ joke with a message that reads: “YouTube is shutting down. Instead of sitting around, we thought you’d want a new site to not only watch cat videos, but create them… together!”

Hurley first teased MixBit at the South by Southwest festival last month. In a talk with Digg founder Kevin Rose, he said MixBit is not out to kill YouTube, but that it will serve a different purpose, allowing users “to work together and create content.”

Hurley was part of the team that sold YouTube to Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion. Since leaving YouTube in 2010, he has focused his energies on AVOS, the Google Ventures-backed company he started with fellow YouTube co-founder Steve Chen. AVOS’s startup properties include social bookmarking site Delicious and digital magazine creation app Zeen.