It started as a fun writing project -- 9-year-old Martha Payne decided to blog each day about lunch at her school in Scotland, rating and photographing each meal.
It sounds like a name-dropping marketer's dream:
Napster co-founders launch a new social media site. CNN's Laurie Segall reports.
Toddler stuck in spinning washer. CNN's Jeanne Moos airs the dirty laundry behind the viral video.
A short video that has gone viral in Mexico asks a tough question of the country's presidential candidates: "Are you striving only for the (presidential) chair, or will you change the future of our country?"
He's no longer the No. 1 golfer in the world, but there's no question that the sport of golf still revolves around Tiger Woods. And Woods remains a key player in the video game world, as well.
CNN's Brian Todd looks at who Joseph Kony is, and what the U.S. and African militaries are doing to track him down.
Let's give praise where praise is due. Invisible Children's Kony 2012 viral video campaign has done what no other advocacy organization has been able to do until now: capture 29 minutes worth of attention from over 50 million people worldwide.
What's white and black, and has people fawning all over? Meet Siku, a polar bear cub born in captivity in Denmark.
With the help of a marching band, a hotel employee quits his job and becomes a YouTube sensation. Jeanne Moos reports.
Alessio Rastani went on a UK news channel on Monday to discuss where stock markets were heading. By Tuesday he was an Internet sensation.
The amateur trader who became an internet sensation after saying he dreamed of a recession explains himself to CNN's Jim Boulden.
Paul Vasquez of 'Double Rainbow' viral video fame comments on his video hit and iReporters' images of double rainbows.
The sad truth for ridiculous Web memes is that they have remarkably poor shelf lives. So, farewell planking.
CNN's Josh Levs shows some of the best videos for and about dads.
With roller skating babies, dancing royal look-alikes and the fragrant Old Spice Guy popping up everywhere, web surfers can't avoid viral advertisements these days -- but do they actually work?
The plain Google search box will soon be able to handle more than taps on a keyboard.
Pete Dominick goes to the Big Brown Comedy show where Arab-American comedians share their experiences post 9/11.
In the unruly mind of the Internet, death's not enough punishment for some people.
Antoine "Bed Intruder" Dodson, the man whose TV news rant against a would-be rapist became a viral music video and his ticket to celebrity, appeared in an Alabama city court Monday to face five misdemeanor charges, including marijuana possession.
Antoine "Bed Intruder" Dodson, the man whose TV news rant against a would-be rapist became a viral music video and his ticket to celebrity, was arrested for marijuana possession, according to Alabama authorities.
The brothers who are responsible for Auto-Tuning the "Bed Intruder Song" talk about their viral hit.
The Internet sensation was booked on a misdemeanor charge for possession of marijuana
The 15th annual Webby Awards announces its list of nominees
Six a.m. isn't an hour most young people check their Twitter feeds. If we're checking anything at all, it's to see if the shower's warm enough. But 6 a.m. Monday is when President Obama decided to release a YouTube video formally announcing that "Yes, We Can" vote for him in 2012, if we feel like it.
Fresh off a $30 million funding round, Internet publisher Cheezburger Network -- known for FAIL blog and LOLcats -- is expanding its New York presence by acquiring Know Your Meme.
On Friday, teen pop singer Rebecca Black was a little-known artist on an independent label.
Ask Michael John Blake how old he is, and says "I am 35, I think, maybe 36" and then tries to do a subtraction involving his birth year.
They've already conquered YouTube. Now, a dream team of viral video superstars is hoping to hit the big screen.
Enough with the poking and the stroking, the typing and the swiping, the tapping and the yapping on your smart phone, whose touch screen has become the new wishing well, each of us gazing into its glassy abyss in the hope that happiness lies at the bottom. For what's all that phone-probing -- at every child's soccer and swimming and skating class -- but an unspoken desire to be somewhere else?
The viral video maker known for breakout hits like "iPhone4 vs HTC EVO," and "So You Want to Be a Journalist" has plans to reach beyond the Web.
When trapped within the confines of a particularly dreary workday, a carefully chosen GIF, cat video or gallery of terrible My Little Pony tattoos can act as a ray of luminous sunshine, breaking through the dark cloud structure of your mood and touching your black heart with the playful soul of levity.
From the Bed Intruder and "Sad Keanu" to the Double Rainbow Guy, see what kept you logged on
How many videos go viral per year? From Bed Intruder to Annoying Orange, there's an insane amount of memes we've run with in 2010.
"Parker Spitzer" looks at some of the political videos that went viral this year, for better of worse.
Apparently the naughty bits on Chatroulette didn't deter Web surfers so much this year. And whether people agreed or differed with Steve Jobs about Apple's "magical" iPad, they still wanted to learn more about it.
Have you ever wondered which smartphone would last the longest when cooked like a hamburger? Us too.
How do you make a video -- or, really, any piece of online content -- go viral? It's something on the mind of every backyard YouTube videographer; every pajama blogger; and, ahem, every big news organization working on the internet.
If you're confused because your Facebook News Feed is filled with women saying that they "like it on" the floor or the kitchen counter, you're not alone. It's all part of a new Internet meme that has gone viral on Facebook to raise awareness for breast cancer.
Will Bunker says he didn't steal the idea for his Facebook app. He just re-created Chatroulette -- minus the naked people.
CNN World Sport takes a look at some of the greatest viral videos.
The ball looked real. The shot looked real. Even the fear in the eyes of the hapless assistant, standing in front of one of the most powerful right arms in the history of tennis, looked real.
Chatroulette, the controversial website that offers random video chat with strangers, was back Monday after being down for more than a week for promised improvements.
Have you recently clicked on a link and -- surprise! -- been redirected to a nine-minute YouTube clip of a hip-swiveling saxophone player? Congrats -- you've been "saxrolled" and seen the Epic Sax Guy.
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