The new Cheezburger redesign: Faster, funnier and fewer trolls

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Cheezburger’s rise to the top of the Internet charts has certainly been impressive to watch, leaving some investors kicking themselves that they didn’t have the foresight to invest early in the online comedy network. But what’s been most impressive about Cheezburger is how the company has strung together so many oddball Web sites, slapping things… Read More…

Microsoft Windows as a ‘beautiful metaphor’ and other comments of the week

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The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “Windows really is a beautiful metaphor for computing and with the new logo we wanted to celebrate the idea of a window, in perspective.” –Microsoft’s Sam Moreau in a blog post describing the concepts behind the company’s new Windows logo. “Whenever you answer something,… Read More…

Ben Huh’s love affair with the Internet (Or why we need to protect our greatest creation)

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Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh appeared today at the In NW social media conference in Seattle, offering an impassioned plea on the importance of protecting the Internet. Or, as the Internet entrepreneur dubs it: “The greatest thing that mankind has ever created.” Huh, who was instrumental in the recent fight against the Stop Online Piracy Act… Read More…

SOPA is a lobotomy, Google’s cutbacks are heartless … and other fun quotes of the week

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The best observations, quotes, comments and zingers we heard this week. “There’s a fundamental difference between people who want to see the Internet and say — ‘Let’s lobotomize and censor parts of it because we need to control it’ —  and those like us who see the Internet as a method of growing the economy… Read More…

Facing pressure from tech giants, politicians postpone PIPA and SOPA votes

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Just three days after the blackout of Wikipedia and other sites, U.S. legislators have postponed votes on the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act. “In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the PROTECT IP Act #PIPA,” wrote Reid on his Twitter account. In a follow-up Tweet, Reid added:… Read More…

Amazon: We dislike piracy, but ‘strongly oppose’ SOPA

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Amazon.com will not be blacking out its Web site tomorrow in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act as Cheezburger and Wikipedia plan to do. But the Seattle online retailer still thinks the legislation is flawed. SOPA and PIPA, also known as the Protect IP Act, would allow copyright holders to shut down Web sites accused of… Read More…

Cheezburger celebrates five years of LOLs, plans January 18th blackout to protest SOPA

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Who could have imagined that a Web site featuring oddly-worded captions accompanying cat photos could one day hold so much sway? But Cheezburger Network, which is celebrating its fifth year anniversary this week, is now using its power as one of the Web’s largest comedy networks for something that CEO Ben Huh doesn’t think is… Read More…

Weekend Radar: Go Daddy’s SOPA scramble, Google’s new Seattle boss, and holiday Kindle puzzles

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A roundup of news and headlines on our radar this holiday weekend …  After withdrawing its support for the controversial Stop Online Privacy Act, Internet registrar Go Daddy is now scrambling to keep its customer base intact, calling people who shifted large numbers of domains away from the company, reports the Next Web. “I think… Read More…

Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh calls SOPA ‘cancer to the free web,’ threatens to ditch GoDaddy

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Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh is threatening to remove the company’s 1,000 domain names off of GoDaddy after the huge Internet registrar came out in support of the Stop Online Privacy Act. The measure, house resolution 3261, would allow copyright holders to shut down Web sites that were accused of copyright infringement. But opponents say it… Read More…