Posts Tagged ‘Chad Hurley’

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New Facebook Tool Helps Organ Donors ‘Share Life’ (ABC News/Good Morning America) In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today the addition of a new tool on Facebook that will allow users to share their organ donor status with their friends. Users can add that they are organ donors to their Facebook timeline, and share their story about when, where or why they decided to become donors. ABC News Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Zuckerberg formulate this big idea. And it was his friendship with Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose life was extended by years following a liver transplant, in part, that spurred the 27-year-old Facebook founder and CEO to help put that idea into practice. The New York Times It is a rare foray by Facebook into social engineering from social networking, and one with a potentially profound effect, according to experts in the field of organ donation. Read more

Yahoo! promised in December that it would try to find a buyer for online bookmarking service Delicious, rather than shutting the service down. The search-engine giant kept its word with the help of YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

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FierceMobileContent is reporting that a new Official Google Blog post, credited to YouTube CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley, implies that the site is gearing up for another attempt at mobile video.

“Our goal is to allow every person on the planet to participate by making the [video] upload process as simple as placing a phone call,” Hurley writes. “This new video content will be available on any screen–in your living room, or on your device in your pocket. YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.”

He also wrote that the tools necessary for video recording “will continue to become smaller and more affordable. Personal media devices will be universal and interconnected.” That’s what we’ve been saying for ages; here’s hoping that the big studios don’t kill it first.