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Facebook's neocon links

Facebook's neocon linksNo wonder Zuckerberg loves Beacon...With his money man a neocon, and the neocons in Washington, DC spying on the country with total disrespect for laws, it's no wonder why that little punk Zuckerberg has no problem with Beacon.RE: Facebook's neocon linksWell...I only used Facebook sparingly, but given as...

Tags: Thiel, Facebook, neocon, neo-con

Discussion threads 2008-01-14

Facebook's neocon links

Writing in today's edition of The Guardian newspaper, Tom Hodgkinson does a complex hit job on Facebook, or more precisely, Facebook's founding investor Peter Thiel. Hodgkindson begins by accusing the "social utility" of being anti-social ("since instead of doing something enjoyable such as talking and eating and...

Tags: Facebook, PayPal, Hodgkindson, Thiel, Bloomberg Markets, Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Singularity Summit 2007: How to be a Singular boy scout

It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence AGI and what preparations are necessary to stack the odds in favor of humans. Our extensive day one coverage from myself and guest poster...

Tags: Robot, Chris Matyszczyk, Thiel, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-10

Additional Resources

News to know: Amazon; Windows 7 beta; Ozzie; Facebook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Five things every Windows beta tester should know Zack Whittaker: Students and the Windows 7 release candidate Larry Dignan: Kindlenomics: Keep...

Tags: Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, TomTom, Online Photo, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Beta, Brittany, Linux, Ultrawideband (UWB), Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Wireless And Mobility, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-02

TechCrunch50: Day 1

When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-08

Black Hat '08 preview webcast on its way

Ladies and gents, For those who hadn't heard, I will be presenting at Black Hat Vegas '08 this year with Rob Carter, John Heasman, and Billy Rios.  Our presentation is called "The Internet is Broken: Beyond document.cookie - Extreme Client Side Attacks", which may sound like a...

Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-15

Facebook and the CIA

In a piece of carefully researched critique, Guardian Unlimited writer Tim Hodgkinson does a masterful job unpacking the politics of Facebook, implying that the company's backer's real agenda is the realization of the original American dream: Here at last is the Enlightenment state longed for since the Puritans of...

Tags: Facebook, Nature, CIA, Tim Hodgkinson, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Venture Capital, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Finance, Financing Startups, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-14

Why the titans of tech should start playing ball

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk yearns for the application of tech entrepreneurship to moribund sports franchises, following in the fancy footsteps of Mark Cuban. After all, sports is a social network of extraordinary proportions... “I’d run any company; it’s completely irrelevant to me. It’s really about this drive...

Tags: Bay Area, Champaign, Chris, Dan Farber, Gentleman, Management, Team, Team Management

Blog posts 2007-10-30

Facebook announces "fbFund" - grants for developers

In a keynote conversation with Mike Arrington at the TechCrunch40 conference, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will be offering grants to budding Facebook platform developers, through its newly formed "fbFund". Administered and funded ($10 million) by VCs Accel Partners and The Founders...

Tags: Developer, Facebook, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Facebook investors start $10 million fund for developers

In a chat with Mike Arrington at the TechCrunch 40 event in San Francisco, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that his company wants to make it as easy as possible for developers to get started in building users bases and great user experiences. He announced...

Tags: Developer, Facebook, Community, Investor, FB Fund, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Facebook could surpass 200 million users in a year

During the Office 2.0 Conference last week, Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu said that Facebook could become the identity platform for the Web. "Facebook scratches an itch. We are learning from watching it, how things evolve organically. You cannot force feed it. Facebook is making pragmatic choices." On...

Tags: Facebook, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-09

Apple plugs gaping iTunes hole, doesn't tell everyone

Apple today shipped an iTunes software refresh to add support for all its shiny new toys but, unless you're following security announcements closely, you'd never know that iTunes 7.4 contains a fix for a pretty nasty code execution vulnerability. Here's what Mac users see: ...

Tags: Security, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Buffer-overflow, Apple iTunes, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-09-06

Is Google search vulnerable in 2007?

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales wants to beat Google at its winning game, search, as I present in “Google search challenge from Wikipedia founder in 2007?”; He cites “obvious flaws” in Google search as motivation. The New York Times profiles Powerset today, a natural language search start-up in “semi-stealth mode,” also...

Tags: Business Models, Google Software Applications, Self-Promotion, VC, Venture Capital, Google, Search, Advertising, Powerset, Ask.com

Blog posts 2007-01-01

MySpace + Facebook = $14 billion?

Is it irresponsible of CEOs of public corporations to tout seemingly unattainable valuations of corporate properties? Are corporate Directors harming the companies they advise by publicly declaring outsized self-valuations?Facebook board member Peter Thiel said last week: “The sites college-aged users make it worth $8 billion or more, as much...

Tags: MySpace, Facebook, valuation, shareholder

Blog posts 2006-12-16

Facebook: Sale, or no sale?

What is the future of Facebook?Facebook isnt for sale, board member Peter Thiel said:Its going to remain an independent company. The plan is to actually build it, maybe at some point take it public, but definitely not to sell it. (see Facebook helps students ‘bypass the bookstore’ ).TechCrunch quips, however,...

Tags: Social Media, Social Networking, Social Web, Facebook, VC, Venture Capital, Culture, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0, Business Models

Blog posts 2006-12-16

Change of face at Facebook

Facebook, the site that Rolling Stone magazine applauds for making college “cruising for tale easier than ever”, is suiting up. While its extension into the corporate market may be designed to support its wish for a $2 billion buyer, it may lead to a loss of “cred” with its student...

Tags: Facebook

Blog posts 2006-05-08