Fast Company (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
DONT MAKE ME MAD What's worked in the ad biz since the days of Don Draper may not work anymore. | Photograph Courtesy of AMC My father-in-law uses an expression, "Attitude is everything." It's his nonconfrontational way of saying, "Stop complaining." This expression has been on my mind lately when I talk to media and advertising executives about the disruption and uncertainty in...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Asana, the productivity management startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Muskovitz and lead engineer Justin Rosenstein, has raked in $9 million from Benchmark Capital and Andreessen-Horowitz. Asana is probably one of the more anticipated startups in Silicon Valley right now. Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes founded Facebook together during college at Harvard University. Rosenstein was...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Some time ago, Mark Zuckerberg began allowing Facebook employees to make a quick buck by selling their shares through private channels (as opposed to waiting for Facebook to hit the Nasdaq or Dow). Since then, many have done exactly that. The interesting thing is that the price of Facebook's stock has risen a whole lot in recent months. Brian Womack talked to Adam Oliveri, a managing director at SecondMarket,...
All Facebook (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This afternoon I’ve been watching the Google OS announcement and all I can say is that this is what Mark Zuckerberg first announced when they released Platform, two and a half years ago. Many assumed that the acquisition of Parakey was a step toward truly building the web operating system of the future. [...]
NYU Local (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Is Facebook about to jump the shark? Is the world’s new favorite past time heading for the shady alleys that make up MySpace and LiveJournal’s 1990s giffable weirdness? It seems like only yesterday I was freaking out with joy when Mark Zuckerberg opened up his world of stalking to high schoolers, and my sister called [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
While the Googlebot’s YouTube is a web video behemoth, Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook nation have become an online video sleeping giant, and it may have just woken up. Facebook jumped to No. 3 behind established video powerhouses YouTube and Hulu in terms of total streams, according to Nielsen’s VideoCensus numbers for October. That’s [...]
Dave Camp on Film (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
I’m not in the habit of writing up thoughts on scripts, but a new David Fincher project always warrants the extra effort. ‘The Social Network’ practically demanded my immediate, undivided attention and much as I once felt compelled to track down drafts of ‘Zodiac’ and ‘Benjamin Button’, typing up some feelings on this felt nothing less than an obligation. In...
Switched (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... This has been a big year for science and tech, but with the media focusing on political squabbling and celebrity fluff, the significant advancements of the past year aren't on everyone's radar. Popular Science, though, has compiled an exhaustive list of 2009's 'Greatest Innovations,' including an electromagnetic helmet that may help cure...
The Raw Feed (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A student-newspaper photographer captured these scenes from the set of the upcoming movie about Facebook, The Social Network , showing actor Jesse Eisenberg (the geek who was in Zombieland ) in character as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg while in college. ( Props ) See and download the full gallery on posterous
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Collegiate Mark Zuckerberg just wore an endless series of gray hoodies, according to new photos a student sent us from the set of The Social Network. Hey, the young cyborg was starting Facebook, not...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
The 25-year-old homemaker from Dallas County, Texas, said she made the discovery last year when she rented the 1985 adventure film "The Jewel of the Nile," starring Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. She said an alert appeared on her Facebook profile detailing the transaction. As a result, Harris filed two lawsuits — one against Blockbuster last year and one against...
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha do lunch together at Urth Caffe in West Hollywood on Thursday (November 5). The two actors, who share the screen in the upcoming indie Holy Rollers, caught up over a meal in town. Jesse, 26, will star in The Social Network as Facebook maven Mark Zuckerberg - filming has already begun [...]
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On September 15th, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook "now serves 300 million people across the world." It seems the site's growth hadn't exactly come to a stop, either, as about a month and a half later, stats indicate the number of users has risen to at least 325 million. This isn't a case of comScore versus Hitwise or Compete versus Nielsen discrepancies. Nick O'Neill reported today,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Over the last decade there have been plenty of internet entrepreneurs and thinkers who have been recognised for the subtle - and not so subtle - impact they have made on the way the world operates. Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, web creator Tim Berners-Lee and even Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, for example, can all claim some sort of influence on the way we think about the 21st century. But...
CloudAve (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
This is part of my Startup Advice series of posts. I heard Bruce Dunlevie of Benchmark Capital say these words at a conference in London nearly 10 years ago. I jotted the words down (I normally pay little attention to anything said at conferences. Most of it is BS) and thought about them much over the years. I later learned that the quote was taken from somewhere else ( perhaps as early as the 13th...
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