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  • April 11th, 2013

    Prototyping App POP Joins AVOS, The Company Led By YouTube Founders Chad Hurley And Steve Chen

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    POP, the app that lets developers turn paper sketches into app prototypes, has joined AVOS, the Internet company led by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. When it launched in November, POP’s (Prototyping On Paper) easy and intuitive set-up garnered it a lot of buzz on both tech and design blogs. All developers need to do with POP is draw a user interface on paper, take photos of their… → Read More

    March 14th, 2013

    Foundation: Chad Hurley Talks Collaborative Social Content and Hints at a New Video Platform

    In today’s episode of my Foundation series, I talk with Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube, and founder of AVOS. Chad talks about life after YouTube, hints at his latest ambition in the video collaboration space and recalls one very important breakfast meeting at Denny’s. → Read More

    December 20th, 2012

    Delicious Previews Its Next Update With Better Search, Enhanced Profiles And Keyboard Shortcuts

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    After YouTube’s founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen bought Delicious from Yahoo in early 2011, it looked like things would move quickly for the former Web 2.0 social bookmarking star. Overall, though, development of the service has moved rather slowly. Things started to pick up this fall, though, including a re-design and the launch of the new Delicious iPhone app earlier this month. Today, the… → Read More

    November 6th, 2012

    Delicious Announces A New Design With A Focus On Community, Speed And Mobile

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    Just when you thought that the site Delicious was dead and gone, it’s back…again. Since being acquired by AVOS, headed up by YouTube co-founders, the site has gone under a few revamps. It was purchased from Yahoo! last year, and at the time, Yahoo! said this about them: “As creators of the largest online video platform, they have firsthand experience enabling millions of users to share their… → Read More

    November 9th, 2011

    AVOS Acquires Link-Saving Service Trunk.ly

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    AVOS, the startup behind the newly re-launched Delicious.com, has acquired the link-saving service Trunk.ly, the company announced in a blog post this afternoon. AVOS, which is led by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, says that Trunk.ly’s “technology and insights will accelerate link-saving and searching capabilities in Delicious.” → Read More

    September 29th, 2011

    Delicious Fixes Firefox Extension, Starts “Bookmark Rescue Operation”

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    AVOS has been getting a whole lot of criticism by former Delicious users and fans – and even original founder Joshua Schachter – after the recent launch of the all-new Delicious. And granted, perhaps they would have been better off waiting a couple more months before launching.

    But AVOS quickly moved to fix some issues, and announced that it was working on fixing others. → Read More

    May 9th, 2011

    After Delicious, YouTube Founders Acquire Business Intelligence Platform Tap11

    AVOS, the new company formed by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has acquired Tap11, a real-time business intelligence platform. The company’s platform integrates social publishing and analytics into a single dashboard to allow marketers to monitor, engage, and measure the impact of their campaigns. According to the press release, Tap11 works with over 500 major brands, media… → Read More