MemeStreams is an early social networking website, online community

Online community

An online community is a virtual community that exists online and whose members enable its existence through taking part in membership ritual. An online community can take the form of an information system where anyone can post content, such as a Bulletin board system or one where only a restricted...

, and blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

 host that was established in 2001 by Industrial Memetics,.

Created by Tom Cross and Nick Levay, the site is particularly popular among computer security professionals.. Michael Lynn (Ciscogate), Virgil Griffith

Virgil Griffith

Virgil Griffith , also known as Romanpoet, is an American hacker, known for his involvement in a 2003 lawsuit with Blackboard Inc. and his creation of WikiScanner. He has published papers on artificial life and is currently a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology...

 (Wikiscanner

WikiScanner

WikiScanner was a tool which consisted of a publicly searchable database that linked millions of anonymous edits on the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia to the organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on the owners of the associated block of...

), Billy Hoffman

Billy Hoffman

Billy Hoffman, also known as Acidus, is an American hacker, born in Atlanta, Georgia on October 15, 1980.-Biography:His father is a sales consultant and his mother is a historian and a former high school social studies teacher. Hoffman created StripeSnoop, an application which analyzes data on...

 (Ajax Security), and Dolemite (organizer of PhreakNIC

PhreakNIC

PhreakNIC is an annual hacker and technology convention held in Nashville, Tennessee. It is organized by the Nashville 2600 Organization and draws upon resources from SouthEastern 2600 . The Nashville Linux User Group was closely tied with PhreakNIC for the first 10 years, but is no longer an...

) are all members of the site.

Memestreams employs a reputation system

Reputation system

A reputation system computes and publishes reputation scores for a set of objects within a community or domain, based on a collection of opinions that other entities hold about the objects...

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