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Chris Poole, aka moot of the infamous 4chan, is well known in plenty of places and is a god among men on 4chan itself, but he's an entrepreneur at heart.
He built 4chan when he was very young and he's been involved with several other projects since. A few years ago, he set out to create a tool dedicated t... |
9 February 2013
05:59 GMT |
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Christopher Poole, the founder of the world renowned discussion forum 4chan, has used the “moot” nickname since 2003. Now, he is hoping to convince an Oregon-based startup company, Moot.It, not to use it.
According to BetaBeat, Poole’s lawyers have sent a cease and desist letter to Moot.It represen... |
20 November 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Valve software boss Gabe Newell is pretty much a cult icon in the gaming industry and the /v/ sub-forum of the infamous 4chan website decided to mark his recent birthday, on November 3, with a special giant card that was delivered by its members to the studio’s headquarters in Bellevue, Washington.
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6 November 2012
13:08 GMT |
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An API is the hip thing to do, you can't expect anyone to take you seriously if you don't have one. In fact, it's so mainstream at this point that Twitter decided it was not cool anymore, so it's doing everything it can to drive away developers.
4chan though, which has been around a while longer... |
6 September 2012
08:51 GMT |
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4chan, the greatest or the worst thing that happened to the internet, depending on your point of view, has something to celebrate, its billionth post. One billion things have been posted to the site, only to be forgotten, or at least deleted, within hours if not sooner.The ephemeral nature of the site doesn't me... |
4 August 2012
15:01 GMT |
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After yesterday they declared war to the famous Jester (th3j3st3r), a few hours ago the UGNazi breached the popular imageboard website known as 4chan.org. During the time in which it was controlled by the hackers, all the site’s visitors were redirected to the group’s Twitter account. “We are not s... |
2 June 2012
04:30 GMT |
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Canvas, the photo sharing and remixing site created by 4chan's Christopher Poole (moot), is now live for everyone. The site had been in private beta for a few months now as it built new features and a strong core community. Now, the site is live and can be used and visited by anyone.
The site is still in beta... |
8 September 2011
07:40 GMT |
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Canvas, 4chan Christopher Poole's try at creating a website that is actually marketable, is growing steadily. While it's still in private beta, the startup just raised $3 million from Union Square Ventures, with all of its previous investors participating as well, to help it scale further and continue to de... |
14 June 2011
07:21 GMT |
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4chan, Christopher Poole's first creation, may not be to everyone's liking, to say the least, but its popularity with a certain, rather large, number of people is undeniable. Now Poole, aka "moot," thinks he can strike again with Canvas, a new photo sharing site built around some of the things that make 4ch... |
1 February 2011
06:31 GMT |
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The Tumblr and 4chan websites suffered various downtimes after its members decided to attack each other with distributed denial of service and images of cute kittens.The 4chan image board is the birthplace of many Internet memes and is responsible for advancing many others, such as the LOLcat phenomenon - the posting... |
15 November 2010
11:58 GMT |
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A London-based law firm called Davenport Lyons is the new victim of the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) campaign launched by an Internet group known as Anonymous against organizations supporting anti-piracy efforts.The campaign, dubbed "Operation Payback," began last Saturday with a DDoS attack against mpaa.org,... |
24 September 2010
04:37 GMT |
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The sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks conducted by 4chan members against anti-piracy organizations continue with UK-based ACS:Law Solicitors becoming the new target.The DDoS campaign is called “Operation Payback” and was started by members of the 4chan image board in retaliation to th... |
22 September 2010
05:09 GMT |
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The sustained Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks organized by 4chan members have also affected the IFPI and RIAA websites over the weekend.As we reported on Saturday, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) website was attacked by members of the 4chan image board.The website eventually ended up exp... |
20 September 2010
02:06 GMT |
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Members of the notorious 4chan image board have launched a coordinated a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against mpaa.org, the website of the Motion Picture Association of America.The attack began at 9:00 PM EST and is still ongoing. It only took eight minutes for the MPAA website to go down.According to ... |
18 September 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Justin Bieber, the teen sensation that you’ve probably and unwillingly heard of in the past months, hasn’t had the best of weekends. Having stirred the destructive ‘fury’ of 4chan, just because of his huge popularity with a certain demographic, he was the victim of several attacks, pranks and ... |
5 July 2010
10:06 GMT |
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In a move that is bound to end badly, AT&T blocked portions of the infamous 4chan.org imageboard, more specifically, the /r9k/ and /b/ sections. The blocking only affected DLS and U-Verse subscribers and not mobile users. There was no official explanation from the company at first though some technical issues have be... |
27 July 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Twitter has been the victim of another prank attack and it looks like with the site's increased popularity it’s becoming a bigger target for this type of attacks. Following last week's number of fake celebrity death rumors started by some Twitter users or even from the celebrities' hacked account... |
6 July 2009
08:49 GMT |
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