“YouTube Founders’ New Project Will Help You Publish Your Own Digital Magazine”
Zeen, the newest project from YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, aims to help normal people make and discover digital magazines.
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For now, though, we have relatively few details about how Zeen will work and what Zeen-spawed ‘zines will look like. You can go to the app’s landing page now to reserve a username and connect the account to an email address, Facebook identity, or Twitter account.
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See Also: YouTube founders readying ‘Zeen’ magazine platform (via CNET)
The jobs page lives at AVOS.com — AVOS, of course, being Hurley and Chen’s company, and the company that bought Delicious off of Yahoo a little less than a year ago.
See Also: YouTube Founders Building Mysterious Magazine Publishing App
Zeen’s gone and taken up shop on Twitter (@zeen_com) and Facebook, but the scant updates posted to either site reveal absolutely nothing about what Zeen will ultimately allow users to do.
See Also: Visit the Zeen Site, Reserve a User Name
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.