Tag: Zuckerberg
NowPublic@SXSW2008: Zuckerberg Keynote Train Wreck
It finally happened. It is the flashpoint of the festival so far. It's everywhere. You can actually hear, see, and feel people talking, twittering, moblogging, yapping, snapping, and gossiping about it.Yes, the event...
Facebook Denies Offering To Buy For Chinese Socia...
"Updated: Facebook PR writes in to us and says the Times UK report is false, and says: ”no offer has been made and no acquisition in China is being considered by Facebook.” That sets the record...
Facebook to Turn Users Into Endorsers
The social graph is eclipsing all other institutions as a force of influence. First it challenged the news media, now it's advertising:"Facebook wants to turn every member into a spokesman for its advertisers. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of the...
Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
Microsoft bought 1.6% of Facebook for $240 million, which puts the value of Facebook at $15 billion. This is significantly better then the $1 billion it was offered a year ago for the whole company. I guess this...
Facebook Set to Introduce Major Ad Play
Facebook is getting serious about advertising:"NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The invitation, sent to advertisers and agencies in New York, arrived carved onto a Lucite brick:"You are invited to a discussion with Mark...
Facebook goes from zero to $10bn in three years
"It is the scourge of middle managers, who fear their employees spend too much time using it, and beloved by people with a penchant for gaining new friends and indulging in internet Scrabble.
Now Facebook, the phenomenally popular social networking site, is at the centre of...
Who Founded Facebook? A New Claim Emerges
"Aaron J. Greenspan says he was actually the one who created the original college social networking system, before either side in the legal dispute. And he has the e-mail messages to show it.
As a Harvard student in 2003 — six months before Facebook started and eight months...
Younger news junkies surfing facebook not myspace
I missed this when it first came out but apparently Rupert Murdoch recently made this statement:"When asked recently by the Wall Street Journal whether newspaper readers were going to MySpace, News Corp. CEO Rupert...
Facebook App Overload: You've Been Poked
The opening of Facebook's code to allow third-party applications (aka "widgets") has led to a feeding frenzy amongst web developers, with an interactive presence on the rapidly-expanding social networking site...
Facebook, In Your Face...Even More Than Before
Update: NowPublic has launched its Facebook application!
The new application allows Facebook users to view NowPublic stories as
part of their Facebook profile. You can choose to show the
best NowPublic stories...
Is Facebook the next Google, or is it more like L...
"There's no question that Facebook is the new "It Girl" of the social networking scene, and has been pretty much since it opened its network last fall (prior to that it was restricted to university students). You can...
Who will win the next high-tech jackpot?
A lenghthy piece by the AP on Web 2.0. Worth the read. Here is the opening paragraph:"PALO ALTO, Calif. - As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
But the...
