Tag: Mark Zuckerberg
Interview: Aaron Sorkin, script writer of The Social Network
Script writer Aaron Sorkin talks about his latest project – The Social Network – a movie about the phenomenon of Facebook and its controversial founder Mark Zuckerberg. Says Sorkin about Zuckerberg: "The world's most important social networking device since the…
The Social Network : Do the critics "Like" Facebook The Movie?
It looks as though Facebook will be getting a few new friends to add to the 500 million + they already have in the shape of a shed-load of movie critics. They're all raving about "The Social Network", the…
Video: Trailer for Facebook movie "The Social Network" looks surprisingly good. No, seriously…
When I first heard news of "The Social Network", a movie about Facebook, I certainly had my eyebrows raised. Sure, it's an unprecedented story of success, but come on, it's still just a website for crying out loud! However,…
Poll: Are you happy with the new Facebook privacy settings?
Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg last night announced the details of his social network's new privacy controls, after many users felt that the previous settings were too complicated. Under the banner of "one simple control", Facebook hope the new controls will…
Zuckerberg: Facebook "missed the mark" over privacy issues
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has admitted that his social network failed to respond quickly enough to its user's growing concerns over issues of privacy. "Sometimes we move too fast – and after listening to recent concerns, we're responding," wrote…
Zynga leaving Facebook, taking Farmville to pastures new?
Zynga, the developers behind the massively popular Farmville game, are rumoured to be preparing to break away from Facebook. If reports are to be believed, Zynga are looking to create their own social network in which to house the…
Facebook raises the photo size cap
They've been promising it since January, but Zuckerberg and co. have finally raised the Facebook photo size cap from 604 pixels to 720 pixels, an almost 20% size increase. So now all your drunken snaps can be seen all over…
Now it has hit 300 million users how much bigger can Facebook get?
One of the problems it faces is that in key territories there are already local social networking sites that have a Facebook style stranglehold already. In Korea Cyworld, with its 24 million members, has managed to keep Facebook and its rivals at bay. In Central America the big player is Sonico and further south in countries like Argentina Hi5 sets the agenda
Five reasons why Facebook bought FriendFeed
By buying FriendFeed Mark Zuckerberg is acknowledging that in many ways Twitter has stolen a march on Facebook and that the uber social networking site needs to catch up.
Facebook changes terms of service, outcry ensues
A couple of weeks ago, Facebook changed its terms of service so that users won’t be able to delete their data if they leave the site. The blogosphere immediately erupted with criticism and it prompted a blog post from Mark Zuckerberg himself on who owns the data.
Facebook had been criticized for allowing a situation where someone could take a photo of you, upload it to the site, and then neither of you would be able to stop Facebook from using it for whatever purposes they like. You essentially waive all rights to the data.
Zuckerberg’s response to concerns is basically ‘chill out – we’re not going to take the piss here’. He doesn’t apologize, or even offer to soften the language – just asks users to trust the company. But how can users trust a company slowly eroding their rights?
Sure, odds are that Facebook isn’t going to suddenly abuse millions of people’s personal info, but if that’s the case, then why not retain the original language? Facebook has a history of communicating changes badly, and this is just another in a long line of screwups that include the profile redesign and the “Beacon” fiasco.
