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Chad Hurley, one of YouTube’s two co-founders, unveiled a new website on Monday called MixBit<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Since @youtube<\/a> is ending, we’re launching a new video site… Welcome to MixBit.com<\/a>! @mixbitapp<\/a> This time it’s not a contest!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Chad Hurley (@Chad_Hurley) April 1, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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MixBit\u2019s 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: \u201cYouTube is shutting down<\/a>. Instead of sitting around, we thought you\u2019d want a new site to not only watch cat videos, but create them\u2026 together!\u201d<\/p>\n

Hurley first teased<\/a> 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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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