After the success of Louis CK’s direct-to-fan specials, video startup Chill is pivoting — again — and coming out with a new product that it hopes will provide a new channel for independent content creators to sell their videos in the same fashion. → Read More
Chill, a startup that started out Namesake and then morphed as a virtual environment for video watching, has performed the mother of all pivots (again) today, going from a Turntable for video to a Pinterest for video, allowing users to post as well as view, comment on and repost video from people that they follow on a pretty grid interface. The new Chill now supports any video, from YouTube, to… → Read More
Chill.com, the infamous Turntable for video, is announcing today that it has raised a $1.5 million angel round from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Atlas Venture and investor Paul Kedrosky. The site, entry to which was then shut down at some point due to popular demand, is also now open to all users.
Chill co-founder Brian Norgard tells me that a lot has happened to Chill since early this August… → Read More
Imagine innocently launching your Facebook app one night and waking up to a bevy of emails saying that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg thinks the thing that you built is spamming up his precious platform. And let’s say that your app is like a DJ interface for videos, like a Turntable.fm for YouTube. And did I mention that it’s also a pivot for your startup (Namesake), much like Turntable.fm was a… → Read More
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