Originally Posted by Jdoughs

All of there big sites are user submitted, viral masterpieces, and they are constantly developing new sites (on free blog platforms at wordpress.com to test the waters).

They actually have a staff of 'post whores' who blast social sites and monitor forums like 4chan to pull ideas and keep an active community base.

There is atleast 1,000 things that we can learn from that business. There is a great wordcamp talk with the one of the main guys, let me find the link.....

http://wordpress.tv/2009/09/26/scott...ess-seattle09/