YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have been working on a new magazine app through their parent company, AVOS. The duo quietly launched a landing page for “Zeen” just before the weekend.
According to Zeen’s new Facebook page: “Hello world! You’ll soon be able to discover and create beautiful magazines with us. Secure your username now at http://zeen.com/.”
“Zeen will be a service allowing users to upload third-party content onto personalized ‘magazines,'” reports Digital Trends. “We’d like to think of it as a cross between Paper.li and Pinterest.”
Digital Trends draws its speculation from information discovered on Zeen’s Privacy Policy page: “First, there is a policy that explicitly informs users of adding content onto the site including ‘links, images, videos, text, sound, comments, notes or tags,’ which will be publicly viewable by users. Second, the policy hints at its intent to use third-party content uploaded on the platform for monetization purposes, possibly like the advertising model current search engines use today.”
“Of course we’re just speculating what is to come, but The Next Web intends to question Chad Hurley when he speaks at The Next Web Conference later this month,” explains the post. “Knowing this, and that Zeen has talked to Martin Bryant on Twitter, we can bet that the official announcement of Zeen’s existence will come at the conference, so stay tuned.”
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