FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 8/13/2005

The Industrial Memetics Institute is proud to announce that Zachary Patten has been added to its ranks as a Resident Engineer. Patten's addition continues Industrial Memetics mission of assembling a staff with extensive expertise in its two primary areas of focus, Internet Communities and Security Research.

Patten and Industrial Memetics founder Tom Cross have past experience working with each other dating back to the 1990's when they developed the Sentry Inc. flagship product CyberAngel, which was designed to facilitate the tracking and recovery of stolen laptops. Patten's work in the security space also includes the development of Encryption Software, Intrusion Detection Systems, and Border Network Security Management Platforms for Silicon Valley companies such as OneSecure and Dataway.

Patten's Internet Community work currently includes the development and administration of VinylBeats.net, an online community focused on DJ turntable beat mastery. VinylBeats is a central point for getting news, reviews, and information about upcoming events. VinylBeats hosts a live stream every Thursday night, and past streams can be accessed in their mixes section.

Patten's induction follows a recent decision by the Industrial Memetics BoD to only induct new residents in person. "We have taken the virtual office environment thing a little too far," stated Acting CEO Nick Levay. "From this point on, we need to start treating elements of how [our team structure] works much more seriously, it should mean something to be a part of this."

When asked how he felt about the Industrial Memetics Induction Process, Patten responded, "Wow, that was hard! I wasn't expecting that."

"I'm happy with where VinylBeats is going," Patten said in discussion before his induction, "but I would rather be building my own [codebase] than using someone else's."

"In my past experience working with Zach, he has always shown a remarkable ability to lay things out in a way that makes logical sense," stated Tom Cross, who is currently 'on sabbatical' from Industrial Memetics, but was present for Patten's induction, "he may be exactly what we need to bring a new level of functionality to MemeStreams UI."

There are no plans to merge MemeStreams and VinylBeats, which slightly resembles a certain News Corporation web property. VinylBeats will remain under the control and direction of Patten.

"This may present an excellent situation to experiment with protocols like OpenID," said Nick Levay. "Once folksonomy style tagging goes into MemeStreams, it will be possible to easily syndicate focused news, reviews, and other content to sites such as VinylBeats." Nick rattled on, "We are more interested in creating an environment to work on that type of thing then we are in merging web properties."

Patten will be maintaining a presence in the MemeStreams Community at: http://www.memestreams.net/users/infinite/

Direct all inquiries to Acting CEO Nick Levay by email at nick @at@ nicklevay.net.