Happy New Year from Memelabs!

After an amazing year of working with people from Chevy and TransWorld, to Mont Tremblant, Tourism Ontario and Wells Fargo we have seen some of your best snowboarding tricks, heard you belt out some serious karaoke, and witnessed some fierce music video’s with your take on an old classic.

And now for 2008- This is going to be a massive year for memelabs and for filmmakers alike- with money and prizes a plenty to get your year started off. As always, we and will be getting you involved in the creative voice for big names, big brands, and big charities. We are going to be mingling with Greenwashing, home décor, old sayings…and tons more for you to get your hands and your cameras rolling. So whether you are a first time noob, or working to get yourself aligned with some favorable eyeballs, this is your chance to show up and show off!

Now get prepped – We have 2 amazing contests launching this week so be sure to check them out, get some new videos in for our featured contests, and pass it on!

!  Of course, voting is key in your 15 megabytes of fame so we’ve created a hot promotional tool for you….check out our new facebook Application- which is the hottest way to promote your video’s and garner some much warranted attention for your cinematography debuts! This could definitely be your year – and we are here to help you get on your way. 

Now get out there and have some fun! We look forward to checking out your work!

The team at memelabs.com

Posted by Jenn Lowther

This blog post could have had many different titles: overused, asinine, worst, overplayed – you get the idea. I’ve listed the 5 that annoy me the most, some of you will agree others will have there own. I’d love to hear what meme irks you the most.

L33t Speak
**This one made my list with much argument between Dario and I. He thinks that l33t rocks and that I’m a n00b for including it on this list. His position is that it’s classic and awesome, only slightly less awesome than the pic on the right (which is actually posted on the door to his office). But I’m writing this so it made my list. Feel free to let me know if you support Dario on this one.

0K, S0 7h12 0n3 12 pH1n3 1n sm4LL D0s32, 8u7 u K4n 7h4NK 4Ll 0F 7H023 d0UCH38492 0U7 7H3r3 wh0 48u23 12. N0, 1 d0 n07 W4N7 70 r34D 4 3N71R3 P023 1n l337, 17’2 4nN0Y1N’, s70P 17 n0w, Ph0r 7H3 L0V3 0F 90D, pl332 S70p 17.

For those of you who are less than fluent in l33t, here is the English translation:

OK, so this one is fine in small doses, but you can thank all of those douchebags out there who abuse it. No, I do not want to read an entire post in l33t, it’s annoying, Stop it now, for the love of god, please stop it.

Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris has always been at best a C-list celeb, and then the internet embraced his awesomeness and made him a full on internet phenomenon. But then Chuck had to go ruin it for us all. First he sues the publishers of Chuck Norris Facts and follows this up with stumping for Mike Huckabee. Chuck, if you’re reading this, you should know that on the internet it’s all about Ron Paul. RIP Chuck.

Numa Numa

You were awesome with your first video, but you really really should have left it at that. You’re like most sequels…they are never as good as the first, and we like you a little less with each subsequent installation, till we can’t quite remember why we liked you in the first place.

Don’t Taze Me Bro

I think I’m going to scream if I hear one more person use the phrase ‘Don’t Tase Me Bro’ or some sort of derivation. When I went and played laser tag and everyone was yelling ‘Don’t Lase Me Bro’, I knew it had gone too far (well that and the MC Hammer remix). This one was funny for like a week and now needs to go somewhere and die a nice quiet death.

Tub Girl and similar parodies

This one really needs no explanation. These meme’s make me wish that I could unsee things. Really I think I may need some therapy after being subjected to these.

Posted by Jenn Lowther

• I get to make boys jealous when I have one and they don’t.

• The boys (thanks Dario, Dave, Ryan) bought them for all of us here for Christmas (yay to free iphones) – That’s right I’ve got one and no I will not blend it.

• I get to superfluously use the term iphone in a douchebagesque (or would that be douchebagette? whatever) kinda way.

• The map function for when I’m driving is wicked (insert girl driving joke now, I know you want to but this is why I will get there before you).

• There is a guitar hero application, really now who doesn’t need a guitar hero application, and yes I am a master guitar heroer.

• Threading of my text messages, I text message incessantly and this organizes all of my convo’s for me. I love not having to scroll through 247 text messages to find the one that proves that I’m right in the height of a heated argument (really though, you should just admit that I’m right at the beginning – with my iphone I’m now unbeatable).

• It looks hot with all of my outfits…no need to waste all of that time deciding which shoes go with which phone…the iphone looks great with all of them.

*Yes that is my small dog in the picture…you can find out more about her on my profile page

**These pictures were all taken by Nadia with her iphone:)
Nadia quit trying to make me laugh:)

Kissing my iphone for luck!!

Posted by Jenn Lowther

As I promised in my last post, I have come up with my list of Top Internet Celebrities of 2007, although my list is 15 rather than Forbes’ 25. I’ve not done my list scientifically the way they did, more I’ve just picked the people who stand out in my mind from the last year. Feel free to let me know who you would have included on the list.

Without further ado, the list…

1. Mark Zuckerburg – Founder of Facebook
2. Mr. BabyMan and all highly active social media users (you)
3. Andrew Meyer – Don’t Taze Me Bro
4. Randall Monroe – xkcd Founder and Artist
5. Rick Astley – Have you been rickrolled?
6. Miss South Carolina – “believe that our, I, education like such as uh, South Africa, and uh, the Iraq…”
7. Pearl – Where’s the rent?
8. Tom Dickson – Will it Blend? guy
9. Chris Crocker – LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE
10. Kevin Rose – Founder of Digg
11. Seth Godin – Marketing Guru
12. Guitar Hero Kid – Damn that kid needs to get outside or start playing a real guitar
13. Ron Paul – 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate
14. Tay Zonaday – Chocolate Rain
15. Jason Calacanis – Internet Entrepreneur

Posted by Jenn Lowther

With the celebrating of New Years Eve past and making new years resolutions on their way to being broken, now comes the perfect time to sum up the previous year. Forbes, famous for their top lists, has released their second annual top 25 web celebrity’s lists. Showing how fleeting internet fame can be, half of last years list is no longer featured. For the full article visit Forbes.

The Web Celeb 25
1. Perez Hilton - Celebrity gossip extraordinaire
2. Michael Arrington - Editor at Techcrunch
3. Mark Frauenfelder - Co-founder of bOING bOING
4. Seth Godin - Bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. I know I’ve read more than one of his books and blog posts.
5. Cory Doctorow - Author and blogger
6. Matt Drudge - News website editor.
7. Gina Trapani - Blogger at lifehacker.com
8. Mark Zuckerberg - Founder of Facebook
9. Harry Knowles - Movie Critic
10. Robert Scoble - Tech Blogger
11. Frank Warren - PostSecret founder
12. Om Malik - Tech Blogger
13. Will Leitch - Sports Blogger
14. Jeff Jarvis - Media Critic
15. Kevin Rose - Founder of Digg
16. Kathy Sierra - Programming Instructor and Blogger
17. Fake Steve Jobs - Journalist, Author, and Blogger
18. Markos Moulitsas - Political Blogger
19. Xeni Jardin - Journalist and Blogger
20. Ryan Block- Gadget Blogger
21. Glenn Reynolds - Political Blogger
22. Pete Cashmore - Tech Blogger
23. Steve Rubel - PR Expert and Blogger
24. Heather Armstrong - Blogger
25. Darren Rowse - Blogging Expert

This isn’t the list that I would have put together for web celebrities of 2007. I’ll follow this up with our very own memelabs web celebrities of 2007 next week. Stay tuned…