The Westerner (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Jesse Eisenberg is the actor that will be playing Mark Zuckerberg in a movie called The Social Network. The Social Network is a movie based on the founding of online social network Facebook. Facebook was founded by Zuckerberg in a dorm room when he was attending Harvard University. However the movie will [...]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The movie about how Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin started Facebook — called The Social Network — is shooting at Johns Hopkins University today, All Facebook...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The movie about how Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin started Facebook — called The Social Network — is shooting at Johns Hopkins University today, All Facebook...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The movie about how Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin started Facebook -- called "The Social Network" -- is shooting at Johns Hopkins University today, All Facebook reports . Actors Jesse Eisenberg (Zuckerberg) and Andrew Garfield (Saverin), as well as director David Fincher were on the scene. So were Twitter users Mary Spiro and Raluca Musaloiu , who stopped to take some...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Last night we wrote about the lead generation scams within social gaming networks. This is a guest post by Dennis Yu , the CEO of BlitzLocal , a privately held 50 person advertising agency in Denver, Colorado, specializing in local search engine marketing for franchises and professional service firms via Google and Facebook. BlitzLocal is no longer in the business of spam, but they do specialize in...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Facebook is much more than a social network. Twitter is much more than an information network or serendipity engine. Each represent a dashboard for your attention, a foundation for conversations and collaboration, and a matrix for your social graph and contextual relationships. In other words, Facebook and Twitter essentially represent the entrée to the future of the social Web as each strive...
Switched (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
( Cue spooky intro music .) Good evening, ghouls, ghosts, and geeks. It's Halloween week, and though there's not much more frightening than nerds dressed in creepy comic book costumes , the days preceding All Hallow's Eve are rife with terrifying tales of Internet death and despair. We learned that Walmart will actually begin catering to the dead, and the undead with a new series of caskets, located...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Here’s our rundown of the week’s tech and business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days: Start-up studies: A pop quiz — “There’s a classroom exercise that’s a part of the Stanford technology venture program hits its students with each year: If you had five dollars and two hours, what would you do to make as much money...
The rise and rise of social media in UK retail (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Nielsen Online research shows that blogs and social social networks are more popular than personal email and that the audience is spanning the age groups. Facebook has fast become one of the most influential social networks globally - according to Mark Zuckerberg , if it were a country, it would be the 8th most populated in the world. So, with such a large audience and fan pages/groups to take advantage...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Still don't have a costume for Halloween? Well you're in luck! You can be the cool kid at the party with the face of Facebook's face (Mark Zuckerberg). Or you and a friend can go trick-or-tweeting as Evan Williams and Biz Stone. Read the rest of this story » See Also: The SAI 50+: World's Most Valuable Internet Startups
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