Amazon.com continues to grab market share from traditional book stores, and just last month Border’s bit the dust. But resident expert John Hodgman — appearing Tuesday night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart — offers some sage advice on how brick-and-mortar bookstores can actually compete. For one, he suggests getting rid of the “old-fashioned”… Read More…
The GQ fashion police on Wednesday called out Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh as one of the 15 worst dressed men in tech, pointing to his frequent choice of ironic cat T-shirts. Now, the man behind the Cheezburger empire is taking his campaign to the people — challenging GQ to what amounts to a fashion duel…. Read More…
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is one of the most accomplished Internet entrepreneurs on the planet, having sold his online clothing and shoe retailer to Amazon.com for $1.2 billion and a previous company to Microsoft. So, we were more than curious how the 37-year-old would hold up against the biting sarcasm of Stephen Colbert. Hsieh appeared on… Read More…
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 Host Margaret Larson tells Huh that she has the “best… Read More…
It was just a matter of time. Amazon.com’s recent Web services outage has been memorialized in a “Downfall” parody on YouTube. The parody is absolutely hilarious (see below), with the fictional Hitler (played by Bruno Ganz in the 2004 German film) railing on everything from Microsoft to cloud computing to Quora. “You said our cloud… Read More…
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