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    Once Just a Site With Funny Cat Pictures, and Now a Web Empire

    Somewhat interesting article...

    Mr. Huh solicited financing from investors and forked over $10,000 of his own savings to buy the Web site from the two Hawaiian bloggers who started it.
    “It was a white-knuckle decision,” he said. “I knew that the first site was funny, but could we duplicate that success?”

    Mr. Huh has since found that the appetite for oddball Internet humor is insatiable.
    Traffic to the Cheezburger blog has ballooned over the last three years, encouraging Mr. Huh to expand his unlikely Web empire to include 53 sites, all fueled by submissions from readers. In May, what is now known as the Cheezburger Network attracted a record 16 million unique visitors, according to the Web analytics firm Quantcast.
    I've always stuck up my nose at sites like this, maybe I'm a moron (rhetorical question, no need for a response).

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    Yea, saw that last night on Techmeme, thought I'd add the link to the article for you....

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/te...er=rss&emc=rss

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    Fascinating. I love the idea of memes or viral phenomenom, wish I could do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by petertdavis View Post
    Yea, saw that last night on Techmeme, thought I'd add the link to the article for you....
    LOL thanks, can't believe I forgot to include the actual link...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tke71709 View Post
    LOL thanks, can't believe I forgot to include the actual link...
    Crap, you're just a very subtle spammer, getting other people to actually drop the link for you.... UGS

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    That's why I have privacy set to yes for my domain nytimes.com.

    The more layers of obsfucation the harder anything is to prove

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