MixBit

Get ready for MixBit: YouTube co-founder teases new video site

SUMMARY:

YouTube may not really be shutting down, but that didn’t stop its cofounder Chad Hurley from announcing a new site.

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YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley piggybacked on YouTube’s April Fool’s Day Monday by using it to tease a new site called MixBit as a possible replacement. Of course, one has to take this announcement with a grain of salt, given the date, but it looks as if this is going to be the collaborative video site Hurley briefly mentioned at SXSW.

MixBit currently only hosts a placeholder site, which 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!”

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The site further promises that the “future of video is launching soon.” The Verge, which spotted Hurley’s tweet about MixBit first, also found a (now-disabled) test pages including one featuring a “looping mp4 video featuring YouTube co-founders Hurley and Steve Chen.”