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Many, many of the things in our lives could be called ‘Memes’.  Here’s what happens when you type ‘Define:meme’ into Google.

a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of

Remember that epic viral video hit The Easter Bunny Hates You? Well, it's one of the best ever and now the creators of that video -- Black 20 -- have paired up with Fox Television Studios'

The last few days, due to the holidays, we’ve been posting light on the main blog.  This has lead to somewhat of a vacuum in our addiction to blogging, so naturally we’ve been satisfying our urge to blog

Steve Gillmor often writes fantastic (and fantastically long) editorials on the landscape of the real-time web, but they are often very dense and sometimes fail to cover some key points. I thought I would take the

I wish I could blame this latest round of mis-information on Matt Buchanan of Gizmodo, Jennifer Van Grove of Mashable, Matt Burns of CrunchGear, Devin Coldewey of CrunchGear, Martin

Who or what is the most trusted source of news in this era of the real-time web?  Over at Techcrunch, MG Siegler suggested that  In The Age of Realtime, Twitter is...»

It’s been a sobering morning – after a late night of plotting out the posts to cover the Thanksgiving holidays (so I can actually take a day of), I woke up late this morning to the

If you’re on Twitter, you’ve probably heard of Tweetsgiving (which started yesterday!) and the Twitter Kids of Tanzania. In last night’s The Social Nerdia Show! I had an awesome conversation with Stacey

PayPal is about to open new development platform APIs, and the company gave a sneak peak to those attending the recent PayPal X Innovate09 conference in San Francisco.

Osama Bedier, vice president of PayPal’s Platforms