Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg Wants You To Read Iain M. Banks’ Player Of Games

The founder of Facebook is reading a book every two weeks, and discussing it with the Facebook community. And his next selection is The Player of Games, one of the amazing Culture novels by Iain M. Banks. Writes Zuckerberg: This is a change of pace from all the recent social science books. Instead, it’s a…

Here’s Facebook’s Little Red Book: A Guide to Zuckerbergian Truth

Facebook, like many Silicon Valley giants, has a mythology that’s used to indoctrinate workers. To help spread this ancestral origin story, Facebook enlisted its in-house print shop to publish a book of cultish aphorisms to guide inductees towards the light. Several photographs of the book are published on the portfolio website of Ben Barry. Barry…

All the Reasons People Are So Pissed About Facebook’s Internet.org

The idea sounds flat-out utopian: Free internet! For everyone! Starting in the least-connected countries! Of course, there’s a catch: Facebook’s Internet.org is helping people get online, but their online experience is then controlled by Facebook. Debate over how much Facebook’s marquee corporate responsibility crusade is tempered by plans to become a global on-ramp for all…

Which Tech Icon Should Get a Creepy Wax Figure Next?

Madame Tussauds wax museum in San Francisco already has wax figures of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. But it’s trying to decide which tech mogul should become the next embodiment of the uncanny valley. And it wants your help! Anyone can nominate their favorite person in tech online. The only real requirement is that they…

Mark Zuckerberg Is Just Plain Bad at Net Neutrality

Mark Zuckerberg means well. Or at least the billionaire says he does in a recent blog post about net neutrality and the Facebook-backed initiative Internet.org. Long story short, publishers in India are pulling their content from the Internet.org app over apparent net neutrality violations, and well, Zuck’s reaction is pretty much: ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Obviously, it’s more…

What Should Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s Resolution Be?

Every year, casual wear enthusiast and Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg embarks upon a singular self-betterment goal. Past goals have included learning Mandarin and only eating animals he personally murdered. But for 2015? Zuckerberg doesn’t have a goal set yet, and is crowdsourcing for suggestions. Some of the suggestions are good, like paying off the college…

One in four self-made American billionaires dropped out of college

Bloomberg crunched the numbers on “self-made” billionaires in the U.S. and found that about a quarter of them were college dropouts. Ten of America’s 43 self-made billionaires dropped out. One, Harold Hamm, never even attended college. College drop-outs (estimated worth): Sheldon Adelson dropped out of City College of New York ($36.4 billion) Paul Allen dropped…

5 Questions Mark Zuckerberg Didn’t Answer As He Discussed Appletinis

This afternoon, Facebook users got a chance to interrogate Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s future. Well over 10,000 questions were submitted before the Q&A, many thoughtful, some pressing. So of course he answered the goofy ones. Zuckerberg was engaged and charming during the session. He (kind of) addressed why Facebook made people install Messenger, and…

Report: Facebook Is Going to Release an Anonymous Chat App

Facebook’s stance on real names drew criticism recently, and it looks like the social network is leaping vigorously in the other direction. Sources within the companytold the New York Times that Facebook plans to release an app that would let people talk anonymously. The company is working on a stand-alone mobile application that allows users…

Watch Zuck Dump a Bucket of Ice Water on His Head (For Charity)

Some of the most powerful people in the tech world are dumping buckets of ice water on their heads. No, they haven’t lost it. They’re doing it for charity. The stunt is a part of a campaign to raise money to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as the motor neurons disease. Those who…

Internet.org Is Giving Developing Countries Free Data For Many Sites

Internet.org—the Zuckerberg-backed initiative to make the internet available the world over—has announced that its new app will provide free data access for services like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, and more. Initially available in Zambia, with plans to extend its reach over time, the following sites won’t accrue any data charges when accessed via Internet.org: AccuWeather Airtel…

Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is colorblind

Being colorblind doesn’t mean you see the world in black and white. But it does mean that you have difficulty distinguishing between certain colors. For Mark Zuckerberg, blue is the “richest” color he can see — which is why Facebook’s dominant color is blue. From the September 20, 2010 issue of the New Yorker: [Mark…

Look at Zuck’s New Madam Tussauds Waxwork

In case running the world’s most successful social network wasn’t enough, Zuckerberg must now truly know he’s made it—because he’s been immortalized in wax by Madam Tussauds. From June, Mark Zuckerberg’s likeness will be on show in the new San Francisco Madam Tussauds. Barefoot with a laptop and wearing his faithful hoodie, he’s got a…

Mark Zuckerberg Talks Fragmenting Apps, Anonymous Facebook and… Poke

Ahead of Facebook’s 10th anniversary on February 4th, Bloomberg Businessweek scored an interview with Mark Zuckerberg to chat about the company’s future. Here are some choice cuts from the social network’s head honcho, before you go read the whole thing. On a shift towards fragmenting Facebook’s apps: “We just think that there are all these…

Mark Zuckerberg on the NSA Debacle, Facebook Home, and Sucking at IPOs

Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference Mark Zuckerberg has made his feelings known about the recent NSA scandal, pointing out that the government “blew it”. In his own words: “Frankly, I think that the government blew it. They blew it on communicating the balance of what they were going for with this.” He’s rightly annoyed,…

Mark Zuckerberg Explains How He Plans to Get the Whole World Online

Having teamed up with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson, Mark Zuckerberg has plans to make the Internet available to the entire world (of course he does). If you were in any doubt about how Internet.org plans to do that, you should watch this video interview from CNN’s New Day show. https://gizmodo.com/facebook-wants-to-get-everybody-in-the-world-on-the-int-1175829249 If you wanna read…

Man hacks Zuckerberg’s Facebook to show how much his security sucks

A Palestinian man hacked into Zuckerberg’s Facebook page to demonstrate how much its security sucks. This happened after his efforts to communicate the access hole were snubbed by the company’s security team on numerous occasions. The result of the hacking was innocuous, but a lot of people are going to get chastised at Facebook’s headquarters…

Mark Zuckerberg’s teamed up with tech execs and venture capitalists to launch a political advocacy group called FWD.us.

Mark Zuckerberg Talks Home, the Future of Sharing and Life Outside Facebook

On the day Facebook launched its new software for Android, Home, WIRED scored an interview with Mark Zuckerberg in order to chat about the product and what the future holds. Here are some choice cuts from the Big Blue’s head honcho, before you go read the whole thing. On the motivations behind Home: Facebook accounts…

Holy Crap, Is This Mark Zuckerberg’s Embarrassing Childhood Angelfire Website?

The word on the interwebs today is that this 1999 Angelfire page belongs to one Mark Zuckerberg. Yes, that Mark Zuckerberg, which means this could be the very first website that the hoody that made Facebook ever created. If true, it’s a time machine into the 15-year-old brain of the most powerful man on the…