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Sir T
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-youtube-20101030,0,2832869.storyChad Hurley, one of the three original founders of YouTube, the groundbreaking website that radically altered the media landscape, is stepping down as its chief executive, the San Bruno, Calif., company said Friday.
Hurley, 33, let the news slip Thursday night during a technology conference at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. When asked what he was up to, he said he would be giving up his CEO title and taking on an advisory role.
The company said Salar Kamangar, vice president of product management, would take over the position.
News of Hurley's resignation did not surprise many YouTube employees, who had been seeing less of Hurley over the last two years as Kamangar took on greater responsibilities of running the online video company.
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Kamangar came to YouTube from Google Inc., which bought the website for $1.65 billion in 2006. He and a small team of engineers had come up with AdWords, the revenue engine that drives much of Google's profit.
Kamangar is said to be charged with finding ways for YouTube to make money from the billions of user-generated online videos it serves up each day. Google has said the site is on the verge of profitability, thanks to Kamangar's efforts to cultivate the type of premium content that can command higher advertising rates.
Once the bane of mainstream media because of the use of pirated content, YouTube now has become a promotional platform for content.
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Sheepherder
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Get a daily snapshot of market numbers and trends, delivered right to your mobile phone. Text BUSINESS to 52669.  |
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Get a daily snapshot of market numbers and trends, delivered right to your mobile phone. Text BUSINESS to 52669. Just an add-bar in the article that his cut and paste picked up. |
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Ratman_tf
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Youtube's day is over. Everything on there now is ads with popup text boxes saying "Buy this crap!"
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Ironwood
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NowhereMan
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Why just this morning I went on Youtube and watched a video of a kitten jumping into a box and a morbidly obese woman on a treadmill. It seems to me Youtube is as vibrant an example of Internet 2.0 social revolution as ever.
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"Look at my car. Do you think that was bought with the earnest love of geeks?" - HaemishM
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Fraeg
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Youtube's day is over. Everything on there now is ads with popup text boxes saying "Buy this crap!"
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Youtube's day is over. Everything on there now is ads with popup text boxes saying "Buy this crap!"
I was horrified when someone sent me a link the other day that was preceded by a Carly Fiorina ad.  |
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slog
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I just found out the other day that Youtube has ads. I guess Firefox + adblock screens them all out.
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FatuousTwat
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Yeah, I've never seen an add on Youtube, shrug.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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