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On Twitter, U R So Not My Valentine

Lauren Goode in Social on February 14 at 12:29 pm PT

As far as Twitter memes go, this one isn’t exactly going to topple a dictatorship. But it could cause some breakups.

Know Your Memes of the Year

Liz Gannes in Social on December 8, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Know Your Meme’s Top 10 memes of 2011 include Rebecca Black, planking and Nyan Cat — which you’ve either never heard of or think are dreadfully out of date.

Happy T-Day From Honey Badger (And to All a Good Pepper Spray!)

Kara Swisher in Media on November 24, 2011 at 8:38 am PT

You know who don’t give a s*&#@? You got that right.

Annoying Orange Finally Gets Some Much-Deserved Juice From Cartoon Network (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on November 18, 2011 at 5:54 am PT

Hey, Apple. Hey, Apple.

"I Wrote the Fake MLK Viral Quote!" "No, I Wrote the Fake MLK Viral Quote!" [UPDATED]

Peter Kafka in Media on May 3, 2011 at 8:11 am PT

Martin Luther King, Jr. didn’t say it, and magician/satirist Penn Jillette says he did. Except so does someone named Jessica Dovey.

Cheezburger's $30M Gets the Taiwanese Animator Send-Up

Liz Gannes in Social on January 21, 2011 at 9:31 am PT

Next Media Animation depicts Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh as an evil stealer of memes, over-worker of cats and receiver of Internet flames. It’s pretty funny.

#lessambitiousmovies Shows Twitter Can Still Be Community, Not Just a Tool

Liz Gannes in Social on January 5, 2011 at 12:31 am PT

Just when you thought Twitter had become a basic tool that serves many purposes, we’re reminded that the service has fostered an actual community. At least that’s the case in my little corner of the Twitterverse, which tonight has overflowed with a meme that just about everyone can participate in and appreciate: #lessambitiousmovies.

BoomTown Tries to Get Some Answers From Quora's Adam D'Angelo

Kara Swisher in News on October 11, 2010 at 10:56 am PT

Adam D’Angelo is too shy to subject himself to a BoomTown video–or perhaps too savvy–but he did agree to a sit-down for a short interview recently in a nondescript room in the Palo Alto, Calif., office building that houses Quora, the hot social answers start-up. D’Angelo was, of course, the CTO and VP of Engineering at Facebook, as well as a prep school friend of the massive social networking site’s co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

Viral Video: More Nerdtastic Interns Rapping…

Kara Swisher in News on July 27, 2010 at 5:05 am PT

Oh, let’s just go with this summer-intern-rapping meme, shall we? Here’s a trio of super-nerds at Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures in the Seattle area–Bellevue, Wash., actually–trying to best the efforts of Cisco intern Greg Justice, who imperiously dubbed himself “The World’s Most Interesting Intern.” And extra points for the lab coats!

Viral Video: Dancing Soliders in War Zones Meme Gets a Little Creepy

Kara Swisher in News on July 7, 2010 at 9:41 am PT

Like the Hitler meme and others, the dancing soldiers of Afghanistan have set off a lot of military moves of the hip-swaying kind in online video. Case in point, the latest one from a group of Israeli soliders in the West Bank’s Hebron while on patrol with big and decidedly scary guns, using them as props in order to boogie to Ke$ha’s hit song “TiK ToK.”