Tag: MARK ZUCKERBERG

Let Zuck have his Person of the Year award, because Stephen Colbert just earned a more prestigious honor: the most retweeted man of the year. The tweet in question ("In honor of oil-soaked birds, 'tweets' are now 'gurgles.' http://bit.ly/cIhZNf") was linked to Comedy Central's 'Address the Mess' coverage, and retweeted over 44,000 times. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone presented a trophy to the ...

Poor Winklevoss twins. First, Mark Zuckerberg "stole" their idea for Facebook, and turned it into a billion-dollar social networking empire. Then, in 2008, Zuck had the gall to compromise on a $65 million settlement -- which, in these troubled economic times, isn't nearly enough to put bread on Tyler and Cameron's dinner table. That's why the square-jawed twins have relaunched their legal ...

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 ...

Share On Sunday, Facebook announced big changes for Profile pages, hours before Mark Zuckerberg's '60 Minutes' interview. The biggest change is the emphasis on photos: from the summary at the top of the page to photos of your relationships, images dominate the new design. You'll also notice that Facebook has done away with the old tabbed interface that separated your wall, info, photos and events ...

Share Facebook, for many users, has always been something of a digital mosh pit -- an amorphous sphere where friends, family and acquaintances from all corners of our lives converge to form the silky strands of our social webs. Simply browsing through a News Feed, to a certain extent, is like leafing through the pages of a living scrapbook. One minute, you're carefully deciphering your ...

Over the weekend, 'Saturday Night Live' totally friended and poked Facebook with two sketches directly aimed at the site. In the first, Mark Zuckerberg, played by Andy Samberg, appears on "Weekend Update," where he comments on blockbuster film 'The Social Network,' and offers some insight into his own life and motives -- namely, that he did it all for the ladies. In the second, a young ...

Mark Zuckerberg landed himself a guest spot on last weekend's episode of 'The Simpsons.' The Facebook founder was hanging out at an entrepreneurial expo where he broke the unfortunate news to Lisa that many of the biggest names in business, including Sir Richard Branson and Bill Gates, are college dropouts. As Nelson so poetically puts it, "Better earnin' than learnin'!" ...

We've all been reading (for what feels like a decade) about 'The Social Network' and Facebook's alleged damage control toward the alleged over-hyped script (i.e., the coke-and-bare-breasts scene which is now sans bare breasts). So what does Zuckerberg think of the movie? Does he wish Aaron Sorkin, David Fincher and Jesse Eisenberg would all fall face-first into a '2012'-esque fissure erupting ...

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 ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Alejo Malia sketches scenes with life-size Google icons. [From: Alejo Malia on Flickr] Pro modder Ben Heck's show debuted today with a one-handed 'Madden' Xbox 360 ...

Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most polarizing and intriguing figures in the technology industry. The world's youngest billionaire -- and subject of the upcoming David Fincher flick 'Social Network' -- opened up to The New Yorker in its latest issue, and alleviated some of the public's curiosity. Check out the source link to find out why Facebook is blue (hint: color blindness), amongst other ...

According to officials at Greenpeace, Facebook needs to change its environmentally unfriendly ways. As the AP reports, more than 500,000 users have joined Greenpeace-sponsored groups calling for the social network to use renewable energy to power its new U.S. data center. On Wednesday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reminding him that ...

Vanity Fair will bow to Silicon Valley in its October issue, which will see the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Lo and behold, Mark Zuckerberg takes the number one spot: "This year Vanity Fair anoints Zuck as our new Caesar. He rules from the imperial capital of Palo Alto, California, the Rome of our nascent millennium." Although VF kind of glosses over ...

Although David Fincher's 'The Social Network' won't be out until its October premiere at the New York Film Festival, Film Linc (the fest's official pub) has released its first review of the biopic. Reviewer Scott Foundas describes it as a slick narrative with "rapid-fire yet plausible dialogue that sounds like what hyper computer geeks might actually say (or at least wish they did): Quentin ...

Shocker? A micro-campaign to block Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from viewing individual Facebook accounts has revealed that Zuckerberg is, in fact, unblockable. Blockzuck.com began as an entreaty to Facebook users fed up with the company's persistent privacy-violating security updates, with simple instructions on how to block the 26-year old from looking at the snapshots from your vacation to ...