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| Jan 11, 2012 | Startup Spotlight: BlooperBox is America’s Funniest Home Videos for the Web (minus Bob Saget) | BlooperBox co-founder Brad Hogan
Take America’s Funniest Home Videos, add a touch of Fail Blog and CollegeHumor.com and then mix in King of the Web and you’ll come up with BlooperBox. The Portland upstart was founded last June after — and w... |
| Oct 17, 2011 | Celebrate the joys of the holiday season with a Cheezburger greeting card? | Cheezburger, Seattle’s oddball network of comedy Web sites, already does a pretty healthy business selling T-shirts, plush toys and calendars.
Now, the company that revolutionized cat photography with silly captions is rolling out a new lin... |
| Sep 13, 2011 | Cheezburger opens a new chapter: Beautiful photos | Cheezburger, the oddball Seattle based network of humor sites, is best known for its captions on funny cat photos and videos of vomiting hang gliders. But it’s not all about the laughter over at the Cheeburger world headquarters in lower Qu... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | Time Waster: Cheezburger’s top 10 summer fails | It’s Friday, and the sun is finally shining in Seattle. But we’ve certainly missed out on a big chunk of the summer. Luckily, Emily Huh of Cheezburger Network stopped by KING 5’s New Day NW to share the top 10 “summer fails.”
New Day NW Hos... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Cheezburger Hits the Big Apple, Zaarly’s Big Debut, Sizing Up the Talent Crunch & More in the Seattle-area Tech Roundup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Cheezburger Network‘s bid to dominate meme-dom took another leap forward this week with the acquisition of Know Your Meme, a site that attempts to trace the histories of p... |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Cheezburger Snaps Up Know Your Meme, Planting a Foothold in New York City | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Hey Big Apple: Ready for some Cheezburger? Seattle-based Cheezburger Network, the holding pen for online humor sites like I Can Has Cheezburger and Fail Blog, has acquired the... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | Jeopardy Fail? Contestants unable to identify FailBlog on game show | Maybe Alex Trebek is a secret FailBlog fanatic. The wildly popular humor Web site — developed by the folks at Seattle’s Cheezburger Network — was the subject of a little Jeopardy trivia this week.
You know you’ve hit the mainstream when you... |
| Jan 18, 2011 |
Cheezburger Deal Spawned Out Of LA's TwiistUp
| The $30M funding deal for Seattle's Cheezburger, the web publisher best known for its LOLcats-themed I Can Has Cheezburger? and FAIL Blog web sites, apparently was spawned out of an introduction at last year's Twiistup technology conference... |
| Jan 18, 2011 | Cheezburger Raises $30M | Cheezburger, an online humor publisher, has raised $30m in venture capital funding.
The round was led by Foundry Group, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Avalon Ventures, and SoftBank Capital.
The company intends to use the cap... |
| Jan 17, 2011 | I Can Has Funding: Cheezburger Raises $30M For LOLcats, FAIL Blog And Other Memes | Cheezburger, the internet publisher responsible for LOLcats, FAIL Blog, and other memes, has raised a whopping $30 million in new funding led by the Foundry Group with Madrona Venture Group, Avalon Ventures, and SoftBank Capital participati... |
| Jan 17, 2011 | Cheezburger transforms Internet memes into $30M of funding | Sites like I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog, and The Daily What may seem frivolous (because, well, they are), but they’ve just attracted $30 million in venture funding for Cheezburger Network, the company that owns them.
Cheezburger’s flags... |
| Jan 17, 2011 |
Avalon Funds Internet Comedy Site Cheezburger
| San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has boosted an Internet web site publisher known for its humorous, captioned pictures of cats and use of Internet memes, Cheezburger. According to Cheezburger, Avalon was one of a number ... |
| Oct 26, 2010 | Google Feels Bad For Killing Newspapers, Gives Journalism $5 Million In Charity | Google announced today that it intends to give away $5 million dollars to organizations trying to find innovative ways to continue the practice of Journalism.
Great. Anything that even vaguely creates more jobs for writers is okay in my boo... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | Lolcat mastermind Ben Huh offers to buy social news site Reddit from Condé Nast (updated) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Update: Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has repl... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | Lolcat mastermind Ben Huh offers to buy social news site Reddit from Condé Nast (updated) | Update: Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has replied to Huh’s offer on his blog. He says that he would be “very surprised” if Reddit were sold, but considering all of Huh’s accomplishments, they should probably chat at some point.
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| Jun 30, 2010 | Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh on Surrounding Himself with More Talent, and the Future of the Global Humor Blog Network | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ben Huh is a very busy man. He’s only 32, yet he’s already spent much of the last few years soaking up the media spotlight due to the almost instant success of his network of ... |
| Apr 14, 2010 | What Websites Do You Like? New Twitter Tool Will Tell You | The Website Taste Predictor is a new Twitter tool that analyzes your Twitter account in order to recommend websites you would like. The project uses Twitter’s OAuth authentication protocol to access your Twitter account so you don’t have to... |
| Nov 12, 2009 | ‘When will Jesus bring the pork chops?’ and other burning questions | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Pet Holdings Inc., spreader of such popular memes... |
| Nov 12, 2009 | ‘When will Jesus bring the pork chops?’ and other burning questions | Pet Holdings Inc., spreader of such popular memes as LOLcats, is expanding its empire with its latest destination — Autocomplete Me, which makes fun of those sometimes off-color search suggestions from Google when you type in part of a quer... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | As Facebook Ages, Gen Y Turns to Twitter | Facebook is getting old. No, people aren’t getting tired of it, it’s actually getting old, as in its population is aging. In May of 2008, the median age for Facebook was 26. Today, it’s 33, a good seven years older. That’s an interesting tu... |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Five Things That May Shock You about the LOLCats Network | Ben Huh is usually holed up in his Seattle-based company Pet Holdings Inc—better known as the company that brings you I Can Has Cheezburger?, the FAIL Blog and nearly thirty other sites that aim to make you laugh for five minutes every day.... |
| Oct 21, 2009 | Gen Y Says: You Can Take Facebook, but Please Don’t Take our Email! | A recent study by industry group the Participatory Marketing Network has unearthed some surprising data on Gen Y behavior. Apparently, the members of this young demographic (ages 18-24) would rather give up their social networking accounts ... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | I Can Has 1 Billion Pageviews? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As traditional media properties struggle with mig... |
| Oct 5, 2009 | I Can Has 1 Billion Pageviews? | As traditional media properties struggle with migrating their businesses online, one company has it figured out.
All you need are cat photos. Like more than 10,000 of them every day. Preferably with misspellings in the fonts ‘Impact’ or ‘Co... |
| Sep 29, 2009 | Dogster and ICanHazCheezburger Join Ad Forces | Dogster has never been a Web 2.0 darling. At first glance a social network for pets isn’t the most innovative idea, and its audience is limited to the kinds of wackos who make name tags for their dogs at conferences or create elaborate fict... |
| Sep 23, 2009 | Celebrating OneWebDay (Internet meme edition) | reader comments 35 with 33 posters participating
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| Aug 15, 2009 | Coincidence? Three Interesting Things About 345 Spear Street, San Francisco | It’s the location of Google’s San Francisco office (floors 2-4)
It’s the location of the Secret Service’s San Francisco field office (floors 5-6)
And someone who works there has a license plate that says “Drunk”
Your assignment, should you ... |
| Aug 5, 2009 | European Commission: 1/3 of EU citizens have never used the web | Close to half of Europeans use the internet every day but one third have never used the web, according to a new report (PDF) published by the European Commission. The study, which took a deep dive into the digital landscape in Europe over t... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | What's The Guinness World Record For Morons In A Hurry Sending Bogus Takedowns? | I think we’ve set a new world record for any particular story being submitted to us here at Techdirt. I’d actually ask the folks at the Guinness Book of World Records to verify that… but I don’t think they really want to have much to do wit... |
| Jul 13, 2009 | Guinness World Records Reaches New Levels Of Fail | Browsing through the hilarious pages of FailBlog.org during rare moments of downtime has become something of a tradition here at TechCrunch. The site, which is part of the rapidly-expanding Cheezburger Network, painstakingly chronicles some... |
| Jul 4, 2009 | What's Right and Wrong with Media Now | Like most things on the Internet, there’s a good side and a dark side to where the media business is headed.
The good side is very good: thousands of layers of mostly needless middlemen and processes are being eliminated as journalists get ... |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Guffaw | The best thing is that this is only $19.95. And that one of the guys said his wife would like one.
via FAILBlog |
| Jan 13, 2009 | Why Do We Still Let Webmail Services Get Away With Deleting Our Data? | It’s 2009. Storage is so cheap that Email providers like Yahoo are literally giving you as much space as you want. Yet we still have to deal with archaic policies that allow these Email providers to delete everything in our inboxes if, for ... |
| Dec 3, 2008 | OnceUponAWin Adds Some Nostalgia To The Lolcats Network | Cheezburger Network, the company behind I Can Has Cheezburger and a number of other humorous blogs, has unveiled the newest addition to its popular blog network: OnceUponAWin, a site dedicated to finding and posting nostalgic photos and vid... |
| Nov 30, 2008 | The Times Gets Pwnd | We were doubtful last night when the story first broke. There were just too many oddities to The Times’ tale about a complicated Yahoo/Microsoft search arrangement that would guarantee billions to Yahoo in exchange for a ten year search dea... |
| Nov 14, 2008 | In These Dark Times, We Turn To Lolcats For Comfort | Times are tough, but Pet Holdings, the company behind ICanHasCheezburger, isn’t complaining – from September to October the company saw its traffic grow by 23%, reaching 128.3 million total page views and 6.3 million unique visitors across ... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | EngrishFunny Is Newest Site In Lolcats Empire | The company behind the popular ICanHasCheezburger site has launched a new website, EngrishFunny, which makes fun of grammatically incorrect variations of English (often found in Asia). Users send in photos of poorly translated or written pr... |