The Seattle Skyline at Night - Eugene Hsu

It looks like Omar Gallaga has broken the news that I’m heading to Seattle to be a part of the Cheezburger Network which is more famously known by the main site I Can Has Cheezburger.  It was a very sudden decision, but I feel very honored to be able to have the opportunity to work for Ben Huh and Todd Sawicki at a company where the entire goal is to make visitors laugh for five minutes a day.

I will be sad to leave Austin, TX and the awesome folks at Challenge Games, but I’ll be in town for a while longer.  More importantly, I’ll always try to be back every year for SXSW and Fantastic Fest. 

For Cheezburger, I’m looking forward to running site merchandising and providing cool stuff for our fans to buy.  If you have ideas about what you want to buy from us, then tell me.  I’m always willing to listen.

SXSW 2010 Panel Picker for our Social Gaming and Monetization Panel

We put together a panel for SXSW 2010 and were fortunate enough to have made it to the first level of voting. Through your help, we are looking to improve our chances by having you give our panel a thumb’s up!

The biggest news at the time when we were putting this together was the publication of revenue numbers for Zynga! which were said to be trending to $100MM this year.  We’ve also seen SuperRewards! announce that they were going to surpass $100MM, and then they were bought-out.  It’s a very exciting time for Social Games and alternative monetization strategies.  Thus, we hope you will support our panel.

Additional Participants are pending, but so far we have Austin Chang, VP of Strategy and Development for MTV Digital, Malcolm Ong, Senior Developer at Razorfish NYC, Karina Paje, Business Development at RockYou!, and me from Challenge Games.  I hope that you will find our topic to be of great interest to you and worthy of support.

Due to limitations on characters and words, I decided to be a bit more creative in the naming and description of the panel. This means that we are the only SXSWi panel where you can find us by searching by typing in “bunnies” or “Mobster.”