Chad Hurley

geek love
Jim Clark's new wife puts "sex" back in "sexagenarian"
Gazillionaire Netscape founder Jim Clark is getting married for a fourth time — and the bride wore very little. Her name is Kristy Hinze, an Australian swimsuit model who has been dating Clark for some time. Hinze is 28, Clark is 64. More »

9:40 AM on Thu Oct 23 2008
By Owen Thomas
7,531 views, 13 comments
caption contest
"Has one made any money from this?"
Queen visits YouTube! No, we're not talking about Ben Ling's new assignment at Google. Her Royal Highness visited Google's London offices, where she was met by YouTube founder Chad Hurley for this staged photo opportunity. Does she broadcast herself on the video site? Well, no, the Queen has people to do that for her, on her own Royal Channel. Can you suggest a better caption for the photo? Suggest it in the headlines. The best one will become the post's new headline. Yesterday's winner: "Does this turtelneck make me look thin?" by ThatKid. (Photo by Adrian Dennis/AP)

4:00 PM on Fri Oct 17 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,610 views, 22 comments

Most discussed EnglishBloke: "Has one made any money from this?" more »
great moments in pr
YouTube founder Chad Hurley a parody of himself
The dirty secret of YouTube's Chad Hurley: Despite selling an online-video startup whose slogan is "Broadcast Yourself" to Google for $1.65 billion, he's still desperately uncomfortable in front of a camera. Google PR's media training has only turned the millionaire's awkward mannerisms into a hilariously stiff folksiness: "Having the opportunity to sit down with some press, communicate to them the deals we've been working on, meet with partners." Is he consciously imitating our tongue-tied president? Or rather, Will Ferrell's Saturday Night Live version of Dubya? No: I think he's just doing a bad impression of Chad Hurley.

1:00 PM on Thu Oct 16 2008
By Owen Thomas
398 views, 5 comments

Latest by Rick: at least he spent some money on getting rid of the crackhead looking bags under the eyes more »
online video
Why YouTube's desperate revenue hunt is on the money
CEO Eric Schmidt botched Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube. Under his misguided traffic-first strategy, the online-video site has seen off would-be rivals, but failed to grow a business. When he decided, rather late, to make revenue a priority, he wasted time looking for a magical new ad format. (The one result of this effort, YouTube's InVideo ads, which are overlaid over a video as it plays, seems to be a complete failure.) Now, YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley admits there is no "silver bullet." YouTube has abandoned one of its shibboleths — that viewers are turned off by "preroll" ads which play before a clip — and is experimenting with a number of moneymaking schemes. More »

3:00 PM on Wed Oct 15 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,761 views, 6 comments

Most discussed ShamitaNerq: Here's an idea, why doesn't YouTube have some sort of commerce marketplace and charge a fee for the conversions. Amazon more »
commenter of the day
FaceMelter
If capitalism is supposed to reward great ideas, then how come it's often hard to believe some of these entrepreneurs ever became as successful as they did? After YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley suggested text will be replaced by video in ten years, the only explanation there could possibly be is luck, according to a lovably grumpy rant by FaceMelter: More »

4:40 PM on Tue Sep 16 2008
By Jackson West
443 views, 3 comments

Most discussed FaceMelter: Honored and still grumpy. more »
Googletards
YouTube founder claims text is dead by 2018
"In ten years, we believe that online video broadcasting will be the most ubiquitous and accessible form of communication." It's on the Official Google Blog, so take YouTube founder Chad Hurley's claim as a company statement. I envy Google's ability to have it both ways on just about any topic. More »

11:20 AM on Tue Sep 16 2008
By Paul Boutin
1,263 views, 18 comments

Most discussed Patricia2: i have to say i agree. it won't eliminate other forms of communication entirely, but by design, the web's here more »

Chad and Steve
What Viacom really wants to know about YouTube videos
What is Viacom really after in its $1 billion lawsuit against Google over YouTube? Despite a lengthy invite list, Viacom PR was only to drum up "a small press gathering" to listen to CEO Philippe Dauman at a screening for Tropic Thunder last night, according to Greg Sandoval's report on News.com. Dauman called YouTube a "rogue company" — and expressed disappointment that Google did nothing to rein it in. Viacom's now being painted as a rogue itself, seeking to violate YouTube users' privacy in requesting viewing logs from the site. More »

11:40 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Owen Thomas
515 views, 4 comments

Latest by ThaiKitchen: That might have true to that, since that's the only thing holding YouTube to their millions. According to this analysis of more »
We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To
YouTube announces paid downloads, DVD sales for filmmakers
On the heels of extending the time and size limit for uploaded videos from partners, YouTube has announced that as part of the Los Angeles Film Festival tomorrow it will be launching the "Screening Room," a place for independent filmmakers to upload and sell shorts and feature-length material. The site will allow direct sales of both digital downloads and DVDs. I asked viral video producer Tim Street, best known for French Maid TV, if there were further details, but he says that while YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is also at the Henry Fonda Theater on Hollywood Boulevard, he's yet to take the stage. Update: Hurley's pressing the flesh, but otherwise providing no details, while the party has moved upstairs to look down on the rest of Hollywood from above. More »

9:15 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
By Jackson West
1,212 views, 1 comment

Latest by WagCurious: It goes without saying that Alan Rosenberg, president of SAG has an huge boner to unionize all of this. He more »
"Fight for Mike" moves to YouTube Mike Homer, the former Netscape executive suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, has inspired a YouTube channel for the "Defeat Dementia" campaign, an effort to educate the public about neurodegenerative diseases. Angel investor Ron Conway, Google advisor Bill Campbell, and YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley organized the collaboration between the online-video site and UCSF, where Homer is being treated. [AllThingsD]

Comment
once you're lucky, twice you're good
L is for Levchin, who never goes slow
Max Levchin, the cofounder of PayPal and the CEO of Slide, measures nearly everything, down to the optimum price to pay for an engagement ring. If he needs a metric for self-importance, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, Sarah Lacy's new book about Web 2.0, provides one. He occupies 78 out of 294 pages, more than anyone else. Here are the index pages for "F" through "M": More »

3:20 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,446 views, 5 comments

Latest by plushmessiah: It's amazing that this shit is actually called "book". more »

1
2
3
4
next »
1-10 of 34 for "Chad Hurley"

Valleywag team

SUBSCRIBE TO Valleywag