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5 social media ways to do Valentine’s
Ahh, it's love day. The traditional way of saying I love you is highly overrated. Roses are overdone, chocolates don't actually seem special anymore. Geeks out there need better ways of expressing their unique geek loves and today, when you need it the most, we have five new ways to do Valentine's.The Twitter way: Get your geek trending
What better way to let your geek know that she or he is the center of your geekverse and the only person more ...Have you met the biggest internet sensation of 2011?
Who is the biggest internet star of 2011 so far? Lady Gaga? Eminem? Wrong. It's a fat, cross-eyed opossum from the Leipzig Zoo called Heidi. Check back through your forecasts by leading pundits about trends in 2011. I bet none of them saw that coming.But with over 180 000 Facebook fans and a hit song on YouTube, Heidi is a veritable internet sensation. Her quirky, delightful appearance makes her instantly endearing and unforgettable. And the fact that she is ...Memeburn’s outstanding memes of 2010
Culture defines an era and the internet is our time’s Rosetta Blog. While the cultural touchstones might be ephemeral and fleeting, we have to realise and appreciate the journey that brought us here. An insignificant event or idea can gradually evolve into a complicated and awesome product that needs to be recognised. We need to embrace the year for what it has given us and Memeburn is proud to bring you (in no particular order) the Best Memes ...Ex-cricket captain Michael Vaughan punches an interviewer. Real or fake?
A video clip has surfaced on YouTube showing former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan being recorded for a television interview.Vaughan represented England and Yorkshire, and was known for his shrewd captaincy and man-management skills. He captained England in 51 Tests between 2003 and 2008, winning 26 (a national record) and losing 11.The clip which has surfaced begins midway through a question where the interviewer says to Vaughan: "You must be a man split in two by this principle?"Vaughan takes ...Viral video alert: President Zuma gets the ‘Old Spice Guy’ treatment
Barely a week ago, the youth league of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's ruling party, took issue with the social media world following the recent Malema vs Twitter brouhaha. Now there's a new video doing the rounds on YouTube that is bound to get tongues wagging. It's by the satirical ZANews team entitled "Old Spin: The Mshini your man could smell like" -- a uniquely South African spoof on the "Old Spice Guy" viral video campaign.In case you ...The birth of a meme
It is common knowledge that Twitter has become a vital source of breaking news and a generator of memes that spread throughout the internet. Yet how does an image posted to Twitter or a 140-character post circle the globe, picking up speed before it ends up on the evening news or in the morning paper? Online magazine Next Generation Online, went to the trouble of plotting a variety of paths that a tweet can take to become a meme and ...Interview: Jack Parow talks music, interwebs and giving up his Nokia 3310
Zander Tyler, or as he's better known, Jack Parow, has made a major splash online with videos like his "Jy dink jy's cooler as ekke" going viral on the internet. We caught up with the infamous Afrikaans rapper Jack about his use of social media and discovered what "Tweeter" really means behind the "boerewors gorduin".MemeBurn: Has using Twitter, Facebook and your blog at Woelag.co.za changed the the way you interact with your fans and do things in general?
Jack Parow: Ja, back ...Google Zeitgeist: Zakumi, Vuvuzelas and the infamous Suarez moment
The vuvuzela has certainly been one of the biggest talking points of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and has since crossed beyond South Africa's borders into other countries. Even celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio have been spotted with their lips around the plastic phenomenon.Google Zeitgeist, a service that provides insight into global, national, past and present search trends, has revealed a few surprising findings about what interests us about this World Cup. For example, some of the findings reveal that the ...The Meme: A powerful form of advertising
Although the term "meme" dates back to Richard Dawkins and his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene”, the more commonplace use of the term refers to internet memes. This term, itself a good example of a meme, has come to refer to concepts, ideas and catchphrases that are spread around the web, gaining recognition and popularity as they spread through email, forums, imageboards and however else, becoming a sort of "personal joke".One common example to illustrate some key traits of ...
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