What the heck you say? If you have not heard about this blog then you must check it out. You can access it by clicking on the I Can Haz Cheezburger link. What started as a crazy idea become an empire.
On January 11, 2007 Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami, found a picture with a now-famous grey fluffy cat meowing over the words, "I Can Has Cheezburger?" For whatever reason that name stuck with them and they quickly registered the domain name. One thing they did not do that they should have done was register the mispellings as well because there are many mispelling of their domain and they don’t own them. What that means is they are losing some traffic to people who have purchased those domain names in hopes to capture some of their traffic.
They setup the blog to accept pictures with captions and it quickly became a phenomenon. Within 7 months and tens of millions of page views per month some investors offered to pay them around 2 million for the blog.
They were getting between 50 and 100 submissions a day and their traffic grew to over 100 million page views per month and over 5000 submissions a day by December 2008. They have close to 800,000 images in their database from users and have since started some new networks.
All this made possible by the powerful technology of a blog.
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