Moot VS Cheezburger: ON REDDIT
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We shot Chris Poole and Ben Huh at ROFLCon III!
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Chris Poole AKA Moot was voted Time Magazine's Most Influential Person of the Year in 2009 and founded websites 4Chan and Canvas. These sites fostered the creation of memes and viral videos such as LOLCATS and RickRolling.
4Chan has over 7 million monthly contributors, and is the largest active forum in the United States. In 2010 Poole was a featured speaker at the TED Conference and has been profiled by TIME, CNN, The Washington Post and Technology Review.
Poole got $625k in Seed funding to start Canv.as, a new image-sharing platform that is an updated 4Chan and is also anonymous.
Profile:
Christopher Poole aka 'moot'
Name: Christopher
Job Title: Video Creator
ROFLCON: Solo Panel
Notable For: Creating http://www.4chan.org http://www.canv.as
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mootmootmoot
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/moot
CEO of Cheezburger. Known for founding I Can Haz Cheezburger?, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, Memebase, Know Your Meme, etc.
Huh's site's engage 16.5 visitors per month. Each day Cheezburger has over 19,000 user submissions. The 'ICHC' book was on the New York Times Bestseller's list for 13 weeks
http://icanhascheezburger.com/
http://benhuh.com
http://twitter.com/#!/benhuh
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