SockAndAwe.com, which was created by the people behind a soon-to-launch comedy site called PopJam, was bought by British Web services company Fubra on Friday — just four days after the site debuted.

Incidentally, the guy who created Sock and Awe is the same one who made headlines for setting up the Million Dollar Homepage in 2005. Alex Tew made a name for himself by making a million dollars off selling individual pixels of the page for $1 each.

As for Sock and Awe, Tew tells Reuters the site was overwhelmed with traffic from the get-go.

“We’ve spent the last three days trying to keep the servers alive and we’re meant to be working on our other main startup PopJam. So we whacked it on eBay,” he says.

Tew says he’ll use the money made from the sale to further his new project.

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Sock and Awe: The Bush Shoe-Throwing Game

The game — called “Sock and Awe!” — was developed by soon-to-launch comedy site PopJam. It lets you test your shoe-throwing skills as a Flash-based Bush jumps around the screen.

Thus far, the U.S. is leading the game’s scoreboard, followed by France and Australia.

UPDATE: The site has been sold, just four days after its launch! And not for too small of a pricetag, either. Details here.

Bush Shoe Video Goes Viral

So just how much of a phenomenon is the Bush shoe throwing video? A pretty massive one, according to some newly released stats. Online video analysis firm Visible Measures found the clip had attracted more than 5.5 million views and 48,000 comments as of Monday — just over 24 hours after its Internet debut.

The kicker to it all: The last time a video grew that quickly, the company says, was when President-Elect Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech. The Obama video pulled in 5 million views and 200 placements in its first 24 hours. The Bush shoe dodge video was up to 4.4 million views and 650 placements in that same timespan.

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