David Gelles meets Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in Friday's Financial Times and looks at the prospects for the world's biggest social network, with 225m active users:“Even as he reacts to new threats, Mr Zuckerberg is intent on extending his company?s reach and deepening its connections with its members. In this, at least, he has shown some remarkable results. Facebook?s user numbers are growing quickly ? more than half have signed up in the past year. It is available in 50 languages a [Read more]
At first glance, a film about the rise of Facebook and its billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg, sounds as compelling as a brick. But before you snicker about The Social Network, 7X7 asks us to consider the script. It's written by Aaron Sorkin, the creator of West Wing, and is based on Ben Mezrich's book, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook -- A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal (these are a few of our favorite things!). Now, judging from early reviews of this tell-all [Read more]
As global head of IDA Ireland's ICT division, Sharpe's role involves ensuring Ireland stays relevant to win these investments: she regularly holds face-to-face meetings with the CEOs and senior executives of global tech giants, from Intel and Dell to Microsoft, Facebook and Google.She does so in the face of “intense” competition from countries such as the rising BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations, not to mention eastern European countries like Poland.Despite this, Irelan [Read more]
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were two geeky, socially awkward Harvard undergrads who wanted nothing more than to be cool. While Eduardo chose the more straightforward path of trying to gain acceptance into one of the school's ultra-posh, semi-secret Final Clubs, Mark used his computer skills by hacking into Harvard's computers, pulling up all the pictures of every girl on campus to create a sort of hot-or-not site exclusive to Harvard. Though the prank nearly got Mark kicked o [Read more]
Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends?outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads and long-time legacies. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance?and sexual success?was getting invited to join one of the university?s Final Clubs, a constellation of elite societies that had groomed generations of the most powerful men in the world and ranked on top [Read more]
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook when he was studying at Harvard with his roommate Eduardo Saverin, but there's a much bigger story. Ben Mezrich, who wrote the book Bringing Down the House about MIT students counting cards, decided to write a book about Zuckerberg as well. It's full title is The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal and it hits store in July (you can pre-order it now on Amazon). Also found on Amazon is a review of the bo [Read more]
Using the security hole, FBHive was able to access personal information about Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, Digg Founder Kevin Rose and [Read more]
UPDATE: CNET has received some casting and possible plot details from someone in the industry......early casting searches are under way and that the list of young actors being eyeballed to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg includes both Michael Cera (Superbad, Arrested Development) and Shia LaBeouf (Transformers). They aren't the only ones, and it's not clear whether either of those two in-demand actors would want to take a turn away from comedies (Cera) or action movies (LaBeouf) to [Read more]
According to Variety, who broke the story, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to get a squeaky clean portrayal. In fact, CNet says he's rumored to be depicted as an obnoxious nerd, with geek chic stars like Michael Cera and Shia LaBeouf rumored to be up for the role. Beloved 'The West Wing' writer Aaron Sorkin has penned the script, and Kevin Spacey-run Trigger Street is looking to produce the film. If its green-lighted, let's sure hope it hits theaters a lot faster than Facebook tec [Read more]
As Facebook didn't already consume hours of my time, now I can spend a couple more (and $12) to see the story of its inception brought to the big screen. “The Social Network,” based on the soon-to-be released “Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal” by Ben Mezrich, tells the story of the site's creation in 2004 by then-Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg (pictured, right). News that David Fincher (”The Curious Case [Read more]
There's been a lot of buzz about the soon to be released book, “The Accidental Billionaires” by Ben Mezrich. It's understandable considering Facebook's ongoing growth and the book's salacious plot. According to Amazon, the book is a story about Mark Zuckerberg and co-Founder Eduardo Saverin's path to success and the conflicts between the founders that are created along the way. There are all sorts of ridiculous stories about what's included in this book, but one thing is for sure: i [Read more]
An entertainment industry source tells CNET News that early casting searches are under way and that the list of young actors being eyeballed to play Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg includes both Michael Cera (Superbad, Arrested Development) and Shia LaBeouf (Transformers). They aren't the only ones, and it's not clear whether either of those two in-demand actors would want to take a turn away from comedies (Cera) or action movies (LaBeouf) to play Zuckerberg. [Read more]
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Director David Fincher is in negotiations to helm The Social Network, a movie about the history of Facebook.The film will track the website's meteoric rise from Mark Zuckerberg's college experiment to booming social network, according to Variety.Fincher, who has won critical and popular acclaim with movies including Fight Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, has several other interesting movies in the pipeline, including a remake of Heavy Metal and a screen adaptation of zombie-bashing [Read more]
CommentsSubscribe to comments for this post OR Subscribe to comments for all ReadWriteWeb posts What about scenario 5 where Facebook still rules the roost in 2013? I mean, will search have a new leader in 2013 or will we still be Googling (or using something made by Google, even if it doesn't quite resemble the current search engine)? 2013 is 9 years of Facebook, and just 4 of Facebook at #1. In 2009 Google has been around for 11 years and has been #1 in search for, what 6... 7 years? And nary a [Read more]
In order to back up their claim, they released screenshots with what was supposed to be the private info of Facebook's own CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, [Read more]
Facebook vulnerable to security flaws Press Release June 24th, 2009 IT security and control firm Sophos reminds Internet users that their personal information may be at riskThis is following news that social networking website Facebook contained a flaw that could have allowed hackers to access sensitive profile information about any of the site's 200 million plus users.Sophos notes that this data, which includes date of birth, home town, gender, family members, relationship status and politi [Read more]
Facebook privacy bug patchedby Steve Ragan - Jun 23 2009, 17:00 Facebook has patched a rather interesting flaw this week, which allowed anyone to view all of the information on an account's basic information section, even if this information had been hidden by the user with the website's security settings. The flaw, first brought to Facebooks attention by FBHive, took fifteen days to correct. Facebook privacy bug patched. [Read more]
How to turn a profit in online advertising? How about set up shop in Russia?Mail.ru, the most popular Russian language website in the world, just announced revenues of $74.6 million for 2008, a 45% increase over 2007. The email provider and Web portal's net income was $34.3 million, a 29% increase over the same period. So how'd they do it?Lean and Mean: The site serves 40 million users a month, but has a staff of only 450 spread throughout the country. One of its nearest competitors, the search [Read more]
Topics: SophosLabs Insights E-mail this page| Print this page| Private Facebook Info Exposed By Simple HackPosted by Graham Cluley, Jun 23, 2009 04:50 AMFacebook's security has been called into question after the creators of a new blog discovered a hack that can expose private profile information of any user.The creators of a new blog called FBHive showed how they could see everything listed in a Facebook user's Basic Information panel, regardless of the privacy settings they had chosen.Us [Read more]