Founded 1995 by primary tentacle Scott Beale, Laughing Squid is an online resource for art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond. Its audience is extremely diverse, ranging from underground artists to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and everything in between. Laughing Squid currently has a Technorati rank of 333 with an authority of 2,450, meaning that 2,450 blogs have linked to the website in the last six months.