NBC News’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel posted the above photo last week on twitter from the protests in Egypt and has quickly become viral. The social site has helped thousands of egyptians communicate and organize for the removal of President Hosni Mubarak. The photo emphasizes what social media means to people from all over the world, especially those in crisis. (more…)
Voting has been underway on Facebook’s official sports page. Since Friday, people have been able to vote on commercials scheduled to air during Super Bowl XLV. The ad that receives the most “likes” by Thursday, February 10th, will become 2011′s Facebook Replay winner.
This is the first time the social network has been apart of the Super Bowl craze, and for good reason: The day the Steelers and the Packers advanced to the Super Bowl, about 4.6 million people shared their thoughts and experiences with their Facebook friends. Combined the two teams each have over a million fans on their pages.
What’s your favorite Super Bowl ad this year? Cast your vote at the Facebook Sports page..
Facebook is moving out of its current office complex in Palo Alto and relocating to the former campus of Sun Microsystems in San Mateo.
Facebook has sent media outlets an invite to a press conference Tuesday, February 8, where it will it discuss its new headquarters. The event will be taking place at 1701 Laurel Street in Menlo Park, the location of the Menlo Park City Council Chambers.
It isn’t revealing much more than that, though. However, our sources confirm that Facebook will indeed be moving its operations to the 22-acre property used by Sun Microsystems before it was acquired by Oracle. Palo Alto Online also confirmed by checking city records that Facebook has acquired 312 and 314 Constitution Drive, properties next to the old Sun Microsystems campus. (more…)
How does a unknown dating site launch with 250,000 member profiles on the first day? Simple. You scrape data from Facebook.
At lease this was the approach taken by a new site called Lovely-Faces.com this week. Profiles with names, locations and photos were “scraped” from publicly accessible Facebook pages. The site then categorized the unwitting volunteers into various personality types by using a facial recognition algorithm. This then allows you to search for someone in your general area who is “easy going,” “smug” or “sly.” Or you have the option to just search on persons real names.
It was the meeting many thought would never happen. The Social Network star Jesse Eisenberg finally came face-to-face with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on live television.
Eisenberg was hosting SNL and in the midst of a rambling opening monologue when he was joined on stage by comedian Andy Samberg. The camera soon cut backstage, where the real Zuckerberg was asking “SNL” producer Lorne Michaels why he “can’t go in there.”
“That guy’s like my evil twin,” Zuckerberg said of his film counterpart. “And that’s just Andy Samberg. C’mon. Those guys are such nerds. I invented poking!” (more…)