YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley doesn't impress them once they know he doesn't actually make the videos; Tim Berners-Lee's credentials are underwhelming. They get excited about Bebo, but only because it sounds like Bieber. Don't worry, kids--you're not missing much on that last one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxhGIajRsq4

Perhaps we should put these children in charge of Silicon Alley recruiting. At least they're not trying to bribe anyone with a Segway.

(h/t The Next Web)

Zeen's splash page. (Photo: Zeen)

Having already succeeded in building two of the most spectacularly successful Internet companies of the modern age--PayPal and YouTube--what on earth do you do next? We'd be inclined to buy an island and never touch a computer again, but that's not the plan for Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who just announced that their digital magazine building platform, Zeen, will roll out next week.

Zeen is a part of AVOS, an Internet company helmed by the duo that acquired bookmarking tool De.licious last year. Precious little info is known about the mysterious Zeen. "Discover and create beautiful magazines," reads the sparse splash page.

Perhaps the biggest hints about Zeen's ethos come from its Facebook page, where avid fans have been posting about beta testing and wanting more information since April.

"Throw us a bone! :)," wrote one user a few weeks ago. Judging from other user comments, it seems as if Zeen has been beta testing with a few choice users, including one named Anna Looper who is planning on launching an heirloom flea market.

"I got my Zeen thank you note and tshirt today. The thank you note is signed by the cool Zeen team. They will be ultra famous soon so I'm keeping the letter in a protected spot," she wrote. "Happy to be in the beta testing for 10 garden bloggers chosen for the sample magazines. I have two sites with them. Flowergardengirl and the other Flea Market Gardens where I'll be showcasing heirloom and vintage style. Not going to be anything ya'll have ever seen or dreamed up."

Ms. Looper seems to see Zeen as an alternative to blogging, which hints at the platform's offerings--perhaps a lightweight, easily-editable text and design editor, like a user-controlled Flipboard?--but still doesn't tell us much.

What we do know is that Zeen's founders have been apparently seduced by the dream of old media. Who can blame them? Magazines are so much prettier and glossier than blogs.

The map of participating NASA Space App Challenge locations

3..2..1..BLASTOFF. It's official: NYC is now one of the spots for NASA's Space Apps Challenge, a two-day development event happening in cities on six continents and aboard the International Space Station. StartupBus NYC and the NY Tech Council are both helping with the coordination of the event, which focuses on how technology can address problems with minimal resources in creative and innovative ways. Register here.

SPLISH SPLASH. Don't you hate it when all your friends get into a band you've already been sick of for weeks? You tried to spread the good sonic vibrations early on but to no avail—the world simply wasn't quite ready for that new fangled rock 'n' roll music. But that's not a problem anymore. Splash.FM, a new social music platform, will make sure you get the credit for discovering a band before they were cool. Splash.FM has been in private beta since Jan. 16 and is preparing to go live publicaly on April 17th. Like on Spotify, users can follow friends, search for and stream songs and make recommendations for friends—called "splashing." Beyond that users will be be able to see what songs are trending among their friends and assign "splash scores" to rate other's music discovery skills. It's an official hipster socreboard! Splash.FM plans to eventually allow artists and labels into their analytics to see how when, how often and where their songs are being played. Take that, Spotify!

HACKER'S RETREAT. Hacker School, an intense three-month, full-time program for people serious about improving their coding skills is now accepting applications. The New York-based school provides space and touts a nice balance of structure, focus, time and community of like-minded techies eager to develop into coding wizards (and witches). Although admission is gratis, NYC living certainly is no—that's why Etsy is providing ten Hacker Grants to ten female students to the tune of $5,000 each. The first day of class is June 4th.

HIGH PROFILE. Microsoft BizSpark is sponsoring The Next Web Conference where 19 startups will go live in front of a global audience of investors and jorunalist with the goals of attracting capital and building buzz for their product in the press. The competition is divided into two tracks: alpha competitors will launch their business for the very first time while established, beta participants, will seek to make headlines with major announcements. The judging panel will be chaired by Amazon's Werner Vogels with Alex Ohanian of Reddit, Mark Randall from Adobe, Joe Gebbia of AirBnB and Chad Hurley from YouTube and Delicious. We're most excited to see the debuts of DeadSocial, a service for sending messages post-mortem and Snowciety, a mobile app that provides athletic data and friends' locations on the slopes.

PIMP MY DESK. Turnstone, the workspace solutions company that distributes everything from bike hooks to cable drops, is giving away five office makeovers to companies with 99 employees or less. For $25,000 worth of design services and furniture, companies must submit a video to convince voters that new space will make all the difference. Judges will pick the top 25 videos and then public voting will pick the top five winners. Finalists will be notified by May 1st.

TECHANTHROPY. The Future Energy Investor Feedback Forum is tonight at NYU's Stern Business School. The event begins at 6:30 at 44 W. 4 Street in the Kaufman Management Center where eight startups will pitch judges to solve the global problems of energy demand, supply and environmental stewardship. Future Energy will conclude with drinks nearby at 8:30 General admission tickets are sold out but last minute tix may still be available via the wait list.

TRAVEL AND TELL. Wanderfly, the travel recommendation site, just launched 600 ever-evolving travel guides. The Wanderfly 2.0 has only been live for about a month but has already scaled very quickly as travelers constantly update and improve the "lenses" by submitting their own content. Some cities have multiple lenses—partying versus sight seeing, for example. Check out one of NYC's right here.

SHOPCHELLA. Kaleidoscope, the app and widget that lets shoppers browse editorial and street-style photos, is partnering with the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to bring five to 10 men's fashion festival looks to Details magazine as soon as the first week of the festival is over. Details announced that this is the first time any magazine has worked with Kaleidoscope. Indian headdresses and short denim shorts-shorts coming to a Details readers everywhere.

HI-HO, HI-HO. TheLadders, a matchmaking service for professionals and employers, is hiring for a bunch of positions including software and lead software engineer, front end-architect and lead SQL database engineer. Benefits include comprehensive healthcare and unlimited vacation.  Early stage VC firm Greycroft Partners is hiring a pre-MBA Associate for a two-year commitment in their NYC office. Applicants should have strong analytical skills, be team oriented and have attention to detail. The selected candidate will evaluate potential investments in early stage companies and assist in the prep of fundraising documents. Send your resume to resumes@greycroftpartners.com. Two Silicon Alley jobs fairs are coming up: the third annual NYC Startup Job Fair and the Uncubed Tech Talent Fair, plus networking fest NY Tech Day is coming up on April 19.

Zeen is brand spanking new so very little info is available but the name and promise of being able to create magazines both indicate a service likely aimed squarely at the emerging market for tablet-friendly publications--a way for users to perhaps leapfrog over the middle step of creating a blog and create something more like a dynamically updated app. Whatever the details, The Next Web notes we may learn more from one of the founders soon:

Chad Hurley will be speaking at The Next Web Conference 2012 in late April, and we’ll be sure to ask him more about Zeen then.

No, not that kind of bear.

Now that Turntable.fm courts celebrities as investors, it's fair game for the likes of The Hollywood Reporter, which had an interesting interview with co-founder Seth Goldstein over the weekend. In it, Mr. Goldstein discusses monetization (with engaged users it'll come naturally) and how DCMA-compliant listening makes for a passive experience ("it's primarily read-only").

As an early investor in the taxonomic trailblazers behind Delicious, Mr. Goldstein also had some telling observations about how TTFM users have scrapped traditional genres for a different approach to categorization.

We also noticed that the conventional notion of [genres] is a relic of a bygone day. The most interesting rooms on Turntable.fm is the mashup room, where the only theme that ties people together is the fact that people have to mash up two songs. There's things like ocean rooms, where you can play anything you want so long that it has something to do with an ocean. There was a Hurricane Irene room where one guy played "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan, and another girl played "Here Comes The Rain Again." One of my favorites is there's an "orange bear indie room" where the only caveat is that you have to wear the avatar of the orange bear. It's interesting to see how people categorize things themselves and create communities around their own categorization schemes. I was one of the original investors in a company called Del.i.cious, and the whole point was that peole would tag things however they wanted to. Whereas Yahoo would call it "sports" website, the user would tag it a baseball website or a Red Sox website. So I think we're seeing how powerful it is when users are given the opportunity to organize their own music.

We hope new Delicious owners, YouTube's Steve Chen and Chad Hurley, are taking note. But as the failure for #occupywallst (or #occupywallstreet or #ows) to crack Twitter's trending topics has shown, too many tags isn't always a good thing.

"Gphone" hahaha.

Just in time for a post-mortem on Carol Bartz's tenure as CEO of Yahoo comes an interview with YouTube founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley in The New York Times about their plans to revamp Delicious. Even before her abrupt cellphone ouster by a bunch of "doofuses"--her words, not ours--Ms. Bartz was criticized for her "failure to innovate" or even capitalize on innovative acquisitions like Delicious and Flickr.

So what will Delicious look like under the leadership of Mr. Chen and Mr. Hurley, who purchased the bookmarking service after Yahoo threatened to shutter it or sell? According to AllThingsD's Liz Gannes, "The new Delicious sounds a lot like the old Delicious brought up-to-date," but that's sort of the point. The need for a service like Delicious, the forward-thinking bookmarking site that never quite caught on outside early adopter circles, is heightened by the torrent of information flowing from social sites like Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and more.

"There are a lot of services trying to solve the information discovery problem, and no one has got it right yet," Mr. Chen tells the Times. His plan is take Delicious mainstream with a recommendation feature based on what you share and a homepage that sounds a little like Techmeme to us, where users can browse "stacks" of images, videos, and links around a particular recent event

But it doesn't necessarily have to be news-related. Delicious's new owners also want to help you capitalize on the Googling of those who came before you, as Mr. Chen told the Times:

“You’re Googling around and have eight to 10 browser tabs of results, links to forums and message boards, all related to your search,” he said. The new Delicious, he said, provides “a very easy way to save those links in a collection that someone else can browse.”

Now if only someone would offer to buy Flickr. Betabeat shares the same position as Matthew Stinson, who recently tweeted, "Dear Yahoo!, before you implode, please sell Flickr to a responsible buyer. Kthxbye."