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It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

By Kelly Faircloth 7/24/12 8:45am

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

I'm busy, kid. (Photo: flickr.com/fizzedi)

Tech Execs Suddenly Wonder What They Hath Wrought

If you’re reading this on your phone, maybe you should put the phone down and spend some time with your family/girlfriend/dog. Kidding! Keep reading Betabeat, please. 

However, the New York Times reports that an increasing number of Silicon Valley execs are starting to wonder whether maybe they should be telling you to step away from the Internet every once in a while. After getting us all well and truly hooked, they’re now pondering whether maybe the implications of constant connection aren’t as wholly utopian as they expected.

You don’t say. Read More

By Jessica Roy 7/20/12 4:08pm

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

(Photo: Facebook)

Facebook Continues Its Quest for Engineering Dominance by Publishing a Hiring Cheat Sheet

Ever since its bungled IPO, Facebook has grown increasingly serious about snatching top engineering talent for its sprawling compound. The company has even begun plucking Wall Street engineers from their siloed banking institutions and putting them to work cranking out PHP. In fact, it appears the company is growing so desperate for engineers that they’ve compiled a little cheat sheet that can enlighten any potential applicants on how to nab a Facebook job. Read More

By Margaret Nickens 7/11/12 6:30pm

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

Courtesy: Facebook.com

Thanks to Facebook, Now You’ll Know Who’s Ignoring Your Posts to That One Group

Facebook, in an apparent effort to fulfill dreams of becoming the creepiest social networking site, announced today that members of a group will now be able to see who has read their posts to that group. While this feature won’t be on your newsfeed–not yet, anyway–it will make it infinitely more difficult to quietly ignore Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 7/11/12 2:26pm

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

"Ask me anything, but I won't promise an answer." (Photo: flickr.com/andrewfeinberg)

Facebook Engineering Ringleader Says Zuck Is ‘Definitely Not a Dick’

In a fitting move for a company that’s all about the openness (whether you want that picture visible or not), today one of the key figures in Facebook’s nascent New York office took to Reddit for an Ask Me Anything Q&A utterly free of capital letters. So what did engineering manager Serkan Piantino have to say for himself?

Well, he defended his boss, though as a rousing endorsement of Mr. Zuckerberg’s many wonderful personality traits, it fell a little flat. Asked whether Zuck is, as The Social Network suggested, “kind of a dick,” Mr. Piantino responded, ”he’s definitely not a dick,” then painted a picture of almost tragic workoholism: Read More

By Nitasha Tiku 6/29/12 10:18am

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

(Photo: Know Your Meme)

Do Not Want: Facebook Testing ‘Want’ Button

We don’t know how to quit you, Facebook. But this latest move sure is making it difficult.

Inside Facebook reports that the company is testing a plug-in for a “Want” button. Like the “Like” button, a “Want” button would allow Facebook to collect scads upon scads of “desire-based data,” about individuals consumers as an omniscient advertising tool. Read More

By Jessica Roy 6/12/12 7:55am

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

Serkan Piantino, FB NY's VP of engineering (Photo: Vimeo)

Dearth of Engineers in New York? Not for Facebook

While most companies need a city-sponsored map to show just how many jobs they currently have open, Facebook’s new engineering office is not struggling for any lack of hirable talent. According to Wired, the company is looking to add a significant number of engineers to its Madison Avenue location and is planning on poaching experienced systems engineers from New York’s financial institutions. Read More

By Steve Huff 5/29/12 10:58pm

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

Hang in there just like that kitten on the poster, Mr. Zuckerberg. (flickr.com/gpaumier)

Mark Zuckerberg No Longer On List of 40 Wealthiest People

If you felt The Force shudder and ripple sometime tonight it may have been due to the Earth-shattering report that Facebook’s C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg has left the world’s 40 richest people list. We would pause while you gasp and sob but it’s scab-pulling time regarding the bad news for the youthful billionaire–and anyway, we think Zuck can handle the pain: Read More

By Steve Huff 5/28/12 3:07am

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

Don't turn around officers, the ultimate capitalist is laughing at you!

The Strange Case of the Mark Zuckerberg-Priscilla Chan Chinese Cop Documentary Photobomb

This is neither here nor there but strange enough to note: a screengrab from a Chinese documentary, Chinese Police, which features at exactly 30 seconds in a photobomb from no less than Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg. Mr. Zuckerberg, who reportedly visited Shanghai at the end of March, is shown walking with Ms. Chan behind a pair of grim-faced Chinese cops, looking oddly amused if not downright tickled by the scene in front of him.

The site that originally reported the photobomb (docu-bomb?) translated the subtitle on-screen during Mr. Zuckerberg’s appearance as “Many problems impelled the Chinese police to find way (sic) to increase efficiency.” Read More