Tag: ZUCKERBERG

Christopher 'Moot' Poole, founder of 4chan and Canv.as, spoke at SXSW's Sunday keynote, and explored privacy, creativity and the importance of anonymity online. With persistent identities (often tied to our real names) from sites like Facebook, Twitter and Disqus tracking our actions across the Internet, Poole compared the loss of anonymity online to a loss of youth -- a time for experimentation. ...

Last night, 'Social Network' star Jesse Eisenberg kicked off the Saturday Night Live monologue (video after the break). A sweatshirted Andy Samberg joined the Academy Award nominee onstage to compare Zuckerberg acting techniques -- "I speak in short clipped sentences, and keep my head very still" -- while the show cut to Lorne Michaels and Mark Zuckerberg himself offstage. Sure enough, the real ...

Share Last night, the notoriously media-shy Mark Zuckerberg sat down for an interview with 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl to discuss Facebook's latest profile redesign, his plans to take over the Internet, and, of course, David Fincher's film 'The Social Network.' The occasion marked Zuck's first televised sit-down since the release of the critically acclaimed movie, in which Jesse Eisenberg portrays ...

The New York Times reports that Mark Zuckerberg, now the 35th wealthiest American according to Forbes, will announce a $100 million donation to Newark, New Jersey's troubled school system on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' this Friday. The announcement's timing may have been carefully chosen to offset the potential public relations fiasco of David Fincher's 'The Social Network,' premiering Friday evening ...

A lot of backs are getting patted over at Facebook headquarters today, as the social network has just passed the vaunted 500 million user mark. It's certainly an incredible milestone, and one that would make most mere mortals ecstatic. According to cyborg CEO Mark Zuckerberg, though, numbers don't really matter. As he explains (in a profoundly creepy cadence), Facebook is much more interested in ...

At one time, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a die-hard BlackBerry devotee. But when his little piggies started hurting from pounding the crap out of the device, he decided to switch to the iPhone. And he's still not happy. In a post made on his Facebook page yesterday (now removed), Zuckerberg complained that, just one week after making the switch, he'd already been forced to buy four ...

You may spend your spare time surfing the Web, hanging out with friends, or playing ultimate frisbee. Mark Zuckerberg spends his down time predicting who you're gonna hook up with next. That's right. Your romantic life is Zuckerberg's leisure. In the forthcoming book 'The Facebook Effect,' Fortune columnist David Kirkpatrick delves into the psyche of the Facebook CEO. And based on early ...