It was a web platform that encouraged users to develop their own creative content that had been coined by NewHive as, expressions.
[3] Though simple but powerful on-line tools that could be learned quickly, NewHive allowed text, links, photos, videos, drawings, music, GIFs, and more to be composed into website collages.
When you saved a page on the site, you could add tags or allow others to remix them to help them reach a broader audience or you could leave it private.
NewHive also worked in partnership with organizations like Asylum Arts, the Goethe-Institut and the Museum of the Moving Image.
CEO Zach Verdin said, “In addition to a marketplace that will allow third-party developers to create applications, extensions and widgets; the New Hive will provide services...such as customized URLs and personally branded hives...[7] The concept behind NewHive was developed in 2008 by cofounders Zach Verdin, Cara Bucciferro, Abram Clark, and Andrew Sorkin and was on-line in private beta in November 2011.