Inside a new Facebook search, the good, bad&creepy

I’m staring at my computer screen, completely paralyzed by which words to type into the search field.

It’s been years since such a simple task has rendered me useless. The last time I couldn’t think of anything to type was back when Napster was illegal, and my brain would shut down every time I tried to think of another low-quality song to add to my collection of zillions.

This is different though. [...]

Introducing ‘Airtime’: Facebook launches new app (and Zuckerberg surprises users by popping up on the video chat service)

After more than a year in development Facebook’s latest app, called Airtime, has launched – and Mark Zuckerberg surprised users when he checked out the video chat service for himself today. 

Created by Napster founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, Airtime is a one-on-one video chat service that allows users to share live video with their Facebook friends, as well as strangers who have similar interests. 

One New York blogger, Ronen V, [...]

Mark Zuckerberg’s Hidden Talent: Firing People

 

You might not believe it, due to his unblinking stares and awkward personal demeanor, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is actually a very good manager of working people.

 

You know how you can tell?

In seven years, he’s grown a dorm room project into a $100 billion company with 3,000 employees.

…!

One of Zuckerberg’s best tricks, according to Henry Blodget’s cover story in New York magazine, is that he is really good at firing people.

“Basically, there are two [...]

Gore: ‘Democracy Has Been Hacked’… Urges new ‘Occupy’…

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By JAKE COYLE AP Entertainment Writer
AUSTIN, Texas March 13, 2012 (AP)
In a wide-ranging talk about the Internet and government, Al Gore urged the techie crowd at South By Southwest to use digital tools to improve government.

The former vice president sat for a conversation with Napster co-founder and Web entrepreneur Sean Parker on Monday at SXSW in a flashy tete-a-tete that drew an audience of thousands at [...]

Gore Urges “Nerd Spring” to Push More Government and Democracy

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
March 13, 2012

Former establishment politician and man-made carbon theory advocate Al Gore took to the stage at South By Southwest yesterday and urged techies to use compromised social media and other digital tools to push for democracy and more government.

Al Gore at SXSW: Digital tools to help elect establishment political candidates.

“Our democracy has been hacked,” said Gore. He said the government no longer functions and suggested the creation of an “Occupy [...]

NEWS CORPS takes $500 million bath, sells MYSPACE for $35 million

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Justin Timberlake apparently wasn’t satisfied with just playing a social media impresario in the movies, so now he’s becoming one in real life.

The pop star, who played Napster co-founder Sean Parker in “The Social Network,” a movie about Facebook, has joined Specific Media in buying its downtrodden rival, MySpace, from News Corp. in a deal that closed Wednesday.

Timberlake will have [...]