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Laughing Squid is a blog featuring items of art, culture, and technology, as well as a web hosting company based out of New York City,
Laughing Squid's main goal is to report, document, and inform the public about important events, projects and people in the field of art, technology and science.
Gizmodo sees Laughing Squid as one of the 25 most viral media enterprises, commenting: "Scott Beale's events tracker the SquidList gave birth to his Laughing Squid web hosting business. Which gave birth to his weblog. Which gave birth to his Tumblr and Twitter—all of which breathed life into thousands of obscure stories that otherwise would have fallen soundlessly in digital forests. Today the smiling cephalopod is basically his own media empire".
According to Quantcast, over 1.4 million people worldwide visit the site each month.
Laughing Squid blog
Laughing Squid web hosting service
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New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
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History
Laughing Squid was founded on November 16, 1995 in San Francisco, California as afilm
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
and video production company by Scott Beale, producing documentaries, including ''Alonso G. Smith, A Half Century of Social Surrealism'' about San Francisco Bay Area surrealist painter Alonso Smith and ''You’d Better Watch Out: Portland Santacon ’96'' about the SantaCon event in Portland, OR organized by the San Francisco Cacophony Society in 1996.
In 1996, Laughing Squid launched The Squid List, a San Francisco Bay Area art and culture events calendar and email list that was decommissioned in 2013.
In 1998, Laughing Squid launched a web hosting company Laughing Squid Hosting.
In 2000, Laughing Squid became an LLC
A limited liability company (LLC for short) is the US-specific form of a private limited company. It is a business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of a ...
with John Law and David Klass joining as partners.
The blog launched in 2003.
Laughing Squid sponsored the back of Frank Chu's sign from 2009 to 2013.
In 2010, the company moved its headquarters to New York City, New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* '' ...
.
Philosophy and impact
Laughing Squid's main goal is to report, document, and inform the public about important events, projects and people in the field of art, technology and science.
Gizmodo sees Laughing Squid as one of the 25 most viral media enterprises, commenting: "Scott Beale's events tracker the SquidList gave birth to his Laughing Squid web hosting business. Which gave birth to his weblog. Which gave birth to his Tumblr and Twitter—all of which breathed life into thousands of obscure stories that otherwise would have fallen soundlessly in digital forests. Today the smiling cephalopod is basically his own media empire".
According to Quantcast, over 1.4 million people worldwide visit the site each month.
Team
The Laughing Squid blog is run by founder Scott Beale, who is Publisher and Editor-In-Chief. He is joined by Contributing Editor Lori Dorn.Awards
* 2011 Webby Award: Web (Blog - Cultural) - People's VoiceReferences
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Laughing Squid blog
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