Which headline is more truthful?
Which is more interesting?
I doubt the latter would make it to the top of HN since it doesn't jive with the startup mythos. Congrats to bemmu, but I doubt he is swimming in vaults full of gold coins. This was simply an aqu-hire.
There is some really good stuff in this article though:
"five million page views per day, with Huh predicting that the sites will top two billion page views this year."
"I asked Huh about the irony of an Internet company turning to stuffed animals and printed books for revenue."
"It gives you a little bit of sense of how hard it is to make money online using advertising,"
Closer to the latter, we are cooperating on a revshare basis. I didn't really think of it as an "acquisition", and frankly when I saw the headline I was a bit shocked, first thinking that Ben had sold our site to someone =)
Congrats from another Finn. Did any Finnish news outlet pick this? I haven't seen any. Unlike your Facebook project, which was featured recently in Helsingin Sanomat.
Innovation? It's some funny pictures and videos drawn from Twitter, which is itself not that innovative. It's not that great. There's nothing special here.
I don't like Icanhaz. They're almost as bad as Ebaumsworld. A lot of their content on their network of blogs--the ones not captioned with their tools, or even some of those captioned--are outright stolen. That happycat that they're now making plushies out of is also not their IP.
Which headline is more truthful? Which is more interesting?
I doubt the latter would make it to the top of HN since it doesn't jive with the startup mythos. Congrats to bemmu, but I doubt he is swimming in vaults full of gold coins. This was simply an aqu-hire.
There is some really good stuff in this article though: "five million page views per day, with Huh predicting that the sites will top two billion page views this year." "I asked Huh about the irony of an Internet company turning to stuffed animals and printed books for revenue." "It gives you a little bit of sense of how hard it is to make money online using advertising,"
We should be talking about that.