This is a nice idea from the Wall Street Journal. It has created a wealth-o-meter to track Facebook chief executive’s real-time worth.
Facebook’s performance in the few days since its IPO has been disappointing to say the least. It’s shares are down by $7 on the IPO price and are currently trading at $31. Read More
Jean Jacques Rousseau’s classic work of social and political philosophy – The Social Contract (published in 1762), starts famously with the words – Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Although it may not seem immediately apparent, there is a direct link between this philosophical work of the 18th Century and Facebook.
The central tenet of Rousseau’s work, is that all individuals must enter into a social contract with others in order to create a free and equal society. Rousseau believed that liberty was possible only where there was direct rule by the people as a whole, and where ‘popular sovereignty’ was indivisible and inalienable. Read More
Saturday brought more British weather but on an American scale as the heavens literally opened meaning I missed the first session of the day trying to avoid getting completely soaked.
I attended 3 sessions – a reading on transmedia storytelling #SXacg2ts and two keynotes on career / life planning #SXstartyou and How to read the World#SXThurston on the role of technology, comedy and satire in transforming the world around us. Read More
Spotify’s Daniel Ek must’ve really enjoyed his time on stage with fellow young-gun chief executive Mark Zuckerberg at this year’s f8 conference, because yesterday he took to the stage in what was the company’s first ever press conference to announce its new ‘game changing’ app platform.
Is there nowhere we won’t see the face of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg? He’s been the subject of Hollywood movie,‘The Social Network’, in January he made a guest appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, and later this month he is to turn coverboy (okay so he’s already seen a few of those) on satirical magazine Mad.
Usually we are see Zuckerberg on the cove of series magazines like Time (person of the year 2010) or Fortune. Read More
This is very funny. Mark Zuckerberg makes a guest appearance on NBC’s Saturday Night Live giving Jesse Eisenberg, who played him so well in ‘The Social Network’, a surprise during his monologue on SNL. Read More
Are you an Apple employee pining for your glorious leader since he went on sick leave? Well here’s just the thing to put on your wall during his absence: a mosaic portrait of Steve Jobs made out of Apple products.
Created by Charis Tsevis of Athens creative agency Tsevis Visual Design, it’s one of two portraits commissioned for the cover of Panorama, Italy’s biggest-selling weekly magazine. Read More
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is to give the majority of his wealth away to charity.
The 26-year old billionaire is joining a group of wealthy entrepreneurs who commit to philanthropy at an early stage in their lives. It follows his day time TV pledge of $100 million to Newark schools. Read More
He’s the world’s youngest billionaire, just beating Sheik Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahayan (age 39, $4.9 bn) and Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis (age 25, $2.1 bn). No one really knows anything about these guys but no one really knows anything about Zuckerberg either. A new comic book might just change that.
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Facebook could have a bit of a PR problem on its hands. The website and its founder receive a bit of a cinematic kicking according to an early review of ‘The Social Network’. The movie apparently portrays Mark Zuckerberg as “an insecure jerk who screws over people and becomes a much-richer insecure jerk”. Read More
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