By Miiko Mentz and Alison McNeill
Most people are familiar with Lolcats and ICanHasCheezBurger, but what some may not know is that Ben Huh, CEO of the Cheezburger Network, has grown a successful business and in just two years he and his team have gone from one site — icanhascheezburger.com — to an entire network of more than 25 fun and entertaining sites. In addition, they have published three more books since their first one I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun, and one of them, How To Take Over Teh Wurld, debuted on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
We love the icanhasacheezburger site and the FAIL Blog, which is another popular site in the Cheezburger Network. It’s quite entertaining. And on Wednesday night, they announced the FAIL Blog’s Top Ten FAIL Lists for 2009 with Kanye West taking the grand prize of “King of Fail” for 2009. Check out the entire FAIL list here.
Ben was a busy man at BlogWorld Expo 2009, speaking and signing books, but after his book signing he took a second to chat with us and share what’s next for the self-proclaimed “internet content connoisseur.” He shared with us a little bit about the latest books that they’ve published, which are Graph Out Loud, Fail Nation and the New York Times Bestseller How to Take Over Teh Wurld (yes, you read that correctly…those are not typos). He also talked about two new sites within the Cheezburger Network that have been well received by the community.
The first one is Daily Squee, which is a site with all things cute, tiny and squee. And the other newly launched site is It Made My Day (IMMD), which is a site that’s similar to the popular FMyLife (FML) site but in reverse. The tagline is “Little Moments of WIN.” However, that doesn’t mean it’s all things good and positive. Let’s just say some IMMDs are a little twisted, yet entertaining. In our interview, Ben shares one example that gives you a flavor for the site. The site also has an IMMD Facebook fan page with more than 10,000 fans.
And if that wasn’t enough, he concludes with a brief comment about an online t-shirt store that they’re launching. Ben and his team are truly unstoppable, and we love it. Keep up the great work guys!
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