Posts Tagged with ‘mark-zuckerberg’

Someone on Hacker News was kind enough to post a link to a patent application filed under Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's name. The application, filed with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in February, has a fairly generic description, "Systems and methods for dynamically generating a privacy summary" with the abstract not giving a whole lot more detail:
"A system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary is provided. The present invention provides a system and method [...]

I didn't want to rehash SXSW. But after reading both Kara Swisher and Mike Arrington's take on it, I find myself in strange company, because I agree with both of them, and this apparently puts me in the minority.
Two years ago, I would have sold my soul to attend SXSW. The past two years, it's seemed less and less about tech and more and more about a four-day-long party with the “cool” kids. Is it making up for time spent [...]

It has surely seemed as though tech pundits everywhere have been occupied with the analysis of social networks over the course of the past year almost entirely, has it not? Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and various others – in that order – that have placed themselves in webpages everywhere on an almost daily basis. It looks as though they’ve even made record showings in various physical “old media” newsprints.
So why, you must ask, do we continue to ride the main line [...]

The ad market research specialist eMarketer let loose Friday with a few numbers we thought we’d run by you. They pertain to businesses which populate the social networking space, and offer a general estimation of what to expect (for the short term) as far as future revenue for the sub-industry as a whole.
According to the firm’s reading of the next three to four years, the supply of social networks will likely draw in ad revenue somewhere in the area [...]

Strange how social networks behave today.
Bebo, a network with a strong member base in the UK, today announced its partnership with Facebook ? yes, partnership ? through which the two competitors will engage in cross-platform cooperation in the Web application space. Cooperation with one another only.
Yes, ?tis true. The company thought for weeks to be well in pursuit of the common OpenSocial goal some dozen online entities have espoused to hold allegiance to, Bebo has now come out [...]

Facebook is going through something of a rough patch at the moment. It’s getting heat from just about all sides for its “overreaching” Beacon advertising initiative, and as a result the site is now routinely hounded by a large number of bloggers and podcasters for, among other things, generally existing and occupying the tubes of the Web. Hey, it happens. You give people a reason to revolt, and, well, there’s a good chance they will.
Now we’ve heard the site’s [...]

Facebook’s ploy to allow advertisers to target the site’s users through personalized marketing tactics might be a drive by the social networking giant “to earn big money,” but there’s a crucial component to site’s planned advertising mechanism that might just inhibit Facebook from getting to that place - the place where it gets mega rich, and where its presumed valuation starts to make a bitty-bit of sense.
That crucial component? Its user base. You know, all the college kids, the [...]

Mark Zuckerberg, beware.
So some members of the press are saying, anyway. Just days ago, Google laid its social networking plans out on the proverbial table, which it has called OpenSocial, and in doing so received quite rapturous applause. OpenSocial delineated a future in which multiple entities, many of which have already been known to spar with one another in the highly competitive forum that is the technology world?s social sphere, battle for greater shares on a more level, more [...]

Reuters, having very recently documented the mere purchase of an Internet domain by Facebook, effectively opened a large window into the mind of the chief executive of the Web’s second-largest social network.
The name in profile is, very simply: 'Facebook.cn'.
The suffix tells you everything, doesn’t it? Yes, Facebook is now revealed to have made itself the owner of a China-compatible Web address, which it is quite likely to use as, well, the gateway for its future Asian operations. Obviously.
Why [...]