Fred Wilson recently said he thinks the next great wave on the web will be like the cultural revolution, and that smart investors will find a way to fund that sea change, but he wasn’t sure yet if he knew how.
Perhaps Wilson was teasing the new $3 million round in Chris “Moot” Read More
It’s tough finding great tech talent in New York. So when local startup Aviary found itself in the middle of a massive viral meme, they decided to leverage it for a little recruiting.
A year ago a cover letter arrived from Roanald Dvorak, a “devilishly handsome” go-getter who excelled at “doing shit.” The joke Read More
Animated GIFs have become the lowest form of internet currency, a viral tidbit easy to trade an consume but unlikely to be of much substance.
New York photographer Jamie Beck is doing something a little more interesting with the form. Read More
We wrote in last week’s rumor round-up that a media start-up was in talks to buy internet culture vulture Know Your Meme; now L.A.-based web tv blog Tubefilter is reporting it’s the I Can Haz Cheezburger empire. Read More
Goodness, look what the internet has done now.The Observer has learned that a search for the random number “241543903″ in Google’s Images search leads down a wormhole into a Dadaist conspiracy: the “heads in freezers” meme.
The meme peaked in March, but was revived recently by a post on Tumblr, according to Read More
