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Video: Time Magazine explains how 4Chan's moot came to dominate the Time 100...

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9/42806370001?isVid=1 Time Magazine discovered last year the raw power of 4Chan. The site’s users took it upon themselves to bring founder moot to the...

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Moot On 4Chan User Survey: "It's Total Garbage."

Over the weekend, a interesting demographic survey of over 6000 4Chan users made the rounds of 4Chan, Reddit and Hacker News. While if anyone is going to skew a survey it’s 4Chan users, the Google...

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(Founder Stories) Moot On The Origin Of 4Chan And The Evolution of Memes

When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founded the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people. Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of many...

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(Founder Stories) Moot Reimagines The Image Board With A Fresh Canvas

When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) started 4chan, it was a very basic image board that attracted an incredibly active and vibrant community. But 4chan itself is not a pretty site. It is almost...

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(Founder Stories) Christopher Poole: Build A Product Before You Build A Platform

One of the biggest startup cliches is that every other startup wants to become a platform for other startups to build on. But to Christopher Poole, the founder of Canvas and 4Chan, that is the wrong...

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I Believe In Google Plus

Is this a contrarian view? I can’t even tell any more. On one hand, Google Plus now has 40 million users, it’s the fastest-growing social-networking site in history, and its users have uploaded 3.4...

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Art-Obsessed 4chan Founder Chris “moot” Poole Opens Up About His New App...

After spending most of his life tackling the world of digital media, 4chan and Canv.as founder Chris “moot” Poole has gone back to basics with a gamified iPad drawing app called DrawQuest. The idea is...

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Goodbye Ugly Forums! Moot Is A Flexible And Modern Platform For Online...

Moot, a startup offering a new take on commenting and forums, is launching today after three and a half years of development with the goal of bringing these key pieces of Internet discussion into the...

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Moot Rebrands As Muut (Yes, Really), Raises $770K To Make Online Forums Less...

 Moot.it, a startup launched last April to do away with ugly online forums by offering a flexible, customizable and more modern-looking platform for online discussions, has raised $770,000 in new...

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Moot Reflects On 11 Years Running 4chan, The Web’s Wild West

  There was never another full-time employee through 11.5 years, over 42 billion page views, and 20 million active users. But after starting the image board where any one could post anything at just 15...

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4chan founder Chris Poole will try to fix social at Google

 Google never “got” social. For all the resources thrown at it, Google+ just never quite felt human. But luckily Google just hired the guy behind 4chan — a site that epitomized the good, the bad and...

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Moot On 4Chan User Survey: "It's Total Garbage."

Over the weekend, a interesting demographic survey of over 6000 4Chan users made the rounds of 4Chan, Reddit and Hacker News. While if anyone is going to skew a survey it’s 4Chan users, the Google...

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(Founder Stories) Moot On The Origin Of 4Chan And The Evolution of Memes

When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) was 15 years old, he founded the 4chan image board on an IRC channel with 20 people. Today, the site attracts about 12 million people a month and is the font of many...

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Image may be NSFW.
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(Founder Stories) Moot Reimagines The Image Board With A Fresh Canvas

When Christopher Poole (aka Moot) started 4chan, it was a very basic image board that attracted an incredibly active and vibrant community. But 4chan itself is not a pretty site. It is almost...

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(Founder Stories) Christopher Poole: Build A Product Before You Build A Platform

One of the biggest startup cliches is that every other startup wants to become a platform for other startups to build on. But to Christopher Poole, the founder of Canvas and 4Chan, that is the wrong...

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I Believe In Google Plus

Is this a contrarian view? I can’t even tell any more. On one hand, Google Plus now has 40 million users, it’s the fastest-growing social-networking site in history, and its users have uploaded 3.4...

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Art-Obsessed 4chan Founder Chris “moot” Poole Opens Up About His New App...

After spending most of his life tackling the world of digital media, 4chan and Canv.as founder Chris “moot” Poole has gone back to basics with a gamified iPad drawing app called DrawQuest. The idea is...

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Goodbye Ugly Forums! Moot Is A Flexible And Modern Platform For Online...

Moot, a startup offering a new take on commenting and forums, is launching today after three and a half years of development with the goal of bringing these key pieces of Internet discussion into the...

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Clik here to view.

Moot Rebrands As Muut (Yes, Really), Raises $770K To Make Online Forums Less...

Moot.it, a startup launched last April to do away with ugly online forums by offering a flexible, customizable and more modern-looking platform for online discussions, has raised $770,000 in new...

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Moot Reflects On 11 Years Running 4chan, The Web’s Wild West

Lolcats, Anonymous, and countless Internet memes all spawned from 4chan. You have Chris Poole, aka Moot, to thank (or blame) for that. There was never another full-time employee through 11.5 years,...

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