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Comment by iamjustlooking | Hacker News Reader

I'm sure from a reporter perspective it doesn't appear like there's much of a technical side to what appears to be a wordpress blog with cats on it.

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That's why I would expect a reporter to, when introduced to a bunch of technical people to ask, "what? there's a technical side?"

Then we could talk about how we make systems to help the editorial team sort through the 16,000 content submissions we get every day, or how we have a public API so people can submit funny content from their applications.

The "wordpress blog with cats on it" is a very shallow view of the company. There's a lot more going on than that.

Are you referring to the lolcat derivative websites you guys have or is there something big going on behind the scenes?

A little of both, there's the constantly evolving system that powers ICHC and the ~50 other sites (not exactly lolcat derivative...the content is pretty diverse) as well as the growing niche social network on cheezburger.com.

One big thing that we're trying to do is make the users' profile pages more of a destination in themselves, where your account on cheezburger is where you express your sense of humor to the world and consume aggregated funny stuff from the people you care about.

A lot of people (myself included) use multiple social networks/online communities for different things. Personal example: Flickr is for my "serious" photos, I use tweetphoto for cameraphone snapshots and bestc.am for more artistic cameraphone creations.

Picture using Twitter for current friends and celebrities, Facebook for family and old high-school friends, and Cheezburger for your online humor friends. Naturally there's overlap (we support sharing your funny stuff on Facebook and Twitter) but we already have a growing number of people who use our (very simple) systems for friending and messaging.

So could you talk about some of that now? I'm genuinely curious.

Really. If you want your story to be heard, tell it. Start talking here or start an IamA.

> Then we could talk about how we make systems to help the editorial team sort through the 16,000 content submissions we get every day,

I knew you guys had this and I honestly thought that was as far the technical feats for the company went - to be clear I'm not trying to insult you guys or anything...I didn't know there were 40 employees. I remember I saw a youtube video a while back that made you guys look like a 10 man operation at most.

EDIT: Just saw your post down below talking the technical side. Interesting.

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