Here's the creepy trailer for The Social Network, based on the story of Facebook and its youthful founder, Mark Zuckerberg. It opens in October as Facebook surpasses 500 million users, and Zuckerberg, just 26 years old, brashly predicts it will reach one billion.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
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The paper for my area, the az republic, does link to facebook. I find this amusing as well. The newspapers general lack to any online marketing competence is beyond absurdity. Here they are dying offline but pulling in tons of viwers online and then promptly letting them leave their website just as easily.
ReplyDeleteGannets recent purchase of OrangeSoda so they can sell businesses SEO services is also laughable. First of all its as if they suddenly decided to be the yellow pages. Secondly the OrangeSoda service is an equivalent to buying yellow page service in an online world. How high are the top brass at Gannet?
Personally I check my facebook page multiple times a day. Not so much for news but for updates on my friends. I have also started to limit how much I put on facebook, making it titles with links to my blog for the total update I am posting about.
I'm on it at least one time a day. Best way to keep in touch with former co-workers and relatives who live in other parts of the country and making "new" friends. I thought it was silly when I first was "invited" to join, but now I really look forward to reading it each and every day. :)
ReplyDeleteI love the pic of me and Tom Curley hovering over a 1A color key on the USAT Facebook page, "I worked at USA TODAY when USA TODAY was still cool!"
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