Tag: MARKZUCKERBERG

It's more like instant messaging than email -- more like a conversation than a threaded email conversation. Yes, every communication that goes through the Facebook messaging platform will create a conversation history. Much like Google Wave, actually. The idea is that you will push every digital communication through Facebook, and thus everything can be logged -- every message has a context. ...

A rumor went around over the weekend that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg couldn't be blocked on Facebook. I just checked, and it's true. Like many others who have tried to block Zuck, I just got the infamous "General Block Failed Error" when I tried to block his account. Every site reporting on this phenomenon has tested and confirmed it, but I thought there was a missing piece: are other Facebook ...

Just when Facebook was riding high on the publicity from its upcoming movie and its 500 millionth user, a lawsuit popped up, claiming that Mark Zuckerberg signed away half the company back in 2003. Facebook has taken a look at the supposed contract between Zuckerberg and a guy who supposedly hired him to build the original "The Face Book" site when he was at Harvard, and they "strongly suspect" ...

You'd think Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg would be dismissive of Diaspora, the upstart effort to provide an open-source Facebook alternative, but Zuck says that's not true. In fact, he donated to the crowd-funded Diaspora project via Kickstarter. Although the amount he donated is unknown, the Facebook founder told Wired he saw himself in the Diaspora kids, who are current NYU students. My take is ...

Facebook promised users that it would simplify their privacy options, and now Mark Zuckerberg is delivering, speaking to the press at a conference in the company's Palo Alto offices. The new privacy controls feature an at-a-glance look at what you're sharing, and a way to turn off all applications. Your block lists are easier to find, too. They've also cut back on the info that must be visible ...

Mark Zuckerberg took to the pages of the Washington Post today to address Facebook users' concerns over the site's complex and confusing privacy settings. Zuckerberg said he's heard what users are saying, and that Facebook will respond by introducing a simpler set of privacy controls in the coming weeks. He said Facebook wanted to give users granular control over settings, but "we just missed ...

Facebook has become a major hot-button topic recently, what with the endless privacy issues and bug reports floating around and all, so you may be thinking about leaving the social network. Unfortunately, kicking the habit may not be so easily done. Maybe you want to deactivate your account, and let it sit while you think things over. Maybe you're afraid of outright deleting your account out of ...

Facebook users signed in last night to find a note from the site's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, celebrating Facebook's growth to 350 million users, and announcing plans for future changes. Take a deep breath before you panic about another major site design, because that's not what Zuck has in mind. In fact, Facebook is just making some privacy changes that have been a long time coming, including ...

Oh day three, where the point values are doubled and the hangover is permanent. If you decided to skip SXSWi this year, joining the hip kids who claimed it was "too commercial" and "too over-hyped", shame on you. The only thing too commercial were the panels and, frankly, no one goes to those anyway. So far today we've caught up with the guys from Bloxes, which although not a tech product is ...

It always seems to happen once a company gets as big as Facebook, people sue. Facebook's creator Mark Zuckerberg first saw a lawsuit alleging that the idea for the 30 million user social network was stolen from a few College friends. Now the team has been hit with a patent lawsuit claiming that the system for creating a community for users with common interests was issued a patent in 2003. What ...

Facebook could face big trouble soon. A lawsuit that's been hanging around for quite some time, filed by the creators of ConnectU -- a Harvard founded social networking site that dates back to 2003 -- could have huge implications for the popular social networking platform if successful. ConnectU claims that Mark Zuckerberg worked breifly for ConnectU, but decided to start his own company soon ...

Facebook has made a major step forward with the launch of Facebook Platform, which promises to make the uber-addictive Facebook even more pervasive. The long and short of it? Facebook has opened their API to developers in a big way, allowing enterprising comapnies and individuals to develop tools for use within Facebook's world, and which can tap Facebook's ever growing and enormous list of ...

Yahoo! and Facebook are back talking, and it looks like the deal is approaching the $1 billion mark. Facebook recently held discussions with Microsoft and Viacom about possible takeovers, and they both bombed out. The 22 year old founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has shied away from selling because he is focused on building the company for the long term. Viacom had offered $750 million earlier this year, ...

For someone who doesn't have a Facebook account, I've sure been Facebook-obsessed this week. I've been on the edge of my seat watiting to find out what changes, if any, Facebook's developers would make after many users freaked out about their new News Feed and Mini-Feed features. All told, the largest anti-News-Feed group gained more than 700,000 members in about three days, almost 10 percent of ...

Yesterday I reported on Facebook's new News Feed and Mini-Feed features, which allow Facebook users to see all of their friends' and groups' public activity at a glance. I praised the feature, but it turns out that a lot of actual Facebook users are having a bit of a freak-out. Okay, they're having a lot of a freak-out. Since the News Feed went live yesterday, literally hundreds of thousands of ...