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Pass the bucket. I've seen nothing from Facebook in the last six months to make me think they've got special leadership.
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Definitely one to tell the grandkids about
Nice read Scoble.
BTW, did Howard Stringer dodge your battery question or what!? C'mon!
It seems like your posts get better and better over the last weeks. You've been posting some really great stuff recently.
And I agree with Dennis Howlett!
Cheers,
Thomas
I've had that informal kind of chat once before with him, and I agree he's a pretty amazing if a bit shy individual. glad to hear he plans to do more communication & blogging in he future too.
have fun in Davos & hope you can join us to speak @Graphing Social Patterns conf in San Diego March 3-4! should be a Facebook / Google / MySpace social networking platform geekfest :)
- dave mc
Congrats!
That is why your article seems fawning and shallow to me. You had real issues two weeks ago and instead talked only about other issues.
Maybe I missed something.
And that's my biggest concern with Facebook, not privacy, but how they handle _alleged_ TOS violations. I wouldn't mind my data be "trapped" there so much if I felt like they were reasonable guys about banning accounts, but unfortunately I think they disrespect people by sending no warnings and only sending "This decision is final" - you're banned, messages.
Interesting interview.
Thanks for sharing with us your conversation with Mark and shed light on what FB's CEO is thinking of.
I watched him on 60 Minutes recently and I really wasn't very impressed with him, but I guess the shyness now explains it.
Now I'll look at him in a different light and cut some slack due to the shyness. Thanks again for sharing!
BTW, major Scrabulous fan! I recently wrote in my own blog about the Hasbro lawsuit too. If anyone from Hasbro is reading, FWIW, we actually got a REAL Scrabble game this last Christmas from a friend who we play Scrabulouse with all the time. I bet Hasbro saw a increase in their board games sales since the popular Scrabulous on FB.
I would actually want to know - how many hrs a day he works? How much time he spends on Business Operations Vs Technical Development Vs Family & Friends? What kinds of books he reads? How does he learn his business strategies and tactics? How does he take decisions? How does he inspire his team? How does he spend his weekend - on Facebook stuff only or on personal stuff? Etc.
These are the questions which are never answered by blogospehre about the leaders. The company details are all out there.
It would be great if you could mention some inputs on Mark's personality as a leader if you learned about it in your interview with him.
Would be very interested in hearing what you talked about during breakfast with Pervez.
Cheers,
Conrad
You had a chance to talk about how they treat people -- to me that is the issue. Maybe you did and you are saving it ...
I'm not saying what they plan to roll out is insignificant, but how they treat people is important too.
If you didn't happen to be a a-lister or whatever you are I suspect you would still be face(book)less. They didn't even bother to respond to little old me when I wrote to them.
And if he's THAT shy, maybe CEO is not the right title for him, proven obvious already, but geeks wax on.
Tuck your ego, inside your shirt, playing video-greet-the-celebrities, ain't gonna save the world. Davos is less about 'economics', and more about NGOs wanting handouts to solve "problems". Cue up some celebrity bloggers covering other "celebrities", and instant fluff press.
Also would have been good to know what he thought of International delete your MySpace account day - Wednesday, January 30th 2008.
Will poor plebs like me always just be looking at the un-reachable, looking-in, never a chance to go to a place like davos?
Is Davos a platinum version of sundance!, a very rich mans party?
As for Facebook, I think a lot of people are getting ahead of themselves, we've already seen one version of history with myspace and ebay -the network-effect eventually stalls, the media keep going on about facebook because its occupied by the media-demographic, but ultimately there are so many competitors out there that are learning from all the mess-ups, and social networks often based on real local-networks could end up being a market of many fractures.
If they join data-portability and have an open infrastructure for things such as widgets, as with bebo, then what unique properties can it offer -the winner in all of this may well be Ning-like aggregators/commoditisers.
The worst aspect of all modern social networks though, won't stop being the fact they are re-creators of the old closed bulletin-board systems of delphi, cix and aol.com -how is there any difference except maybe better granular relational intelligence, but it was aol that had buddy-lists and chat, remember the old cross-roads/battles of aol and ms changing over onto the wide open internet?
Thanks for the posts and vicarious excitement, but it does become weary to those who can only ever dream.
Yours kindly,
Shakir Razak
There was a time when the World Economic Forum was a closed society, with participants quietly asked to keep the general tenor “off the record.” All that has changed. Hope that the participants' and attendees' words, including yours and mine, lead to action and "making the world a better place." Really.
What a puff piece. Tryiong to regain favor from the king's court?
Most of this stuff is geared towards people vested in FB and not a real newsworthy article IMO.
I think of FB as a Fad with some worthwhile value, but most yet to be realized, and as it is becoming clear that value needs to be realized, the hot seat for Mark is just getting warm.
As for 'the kid,' he is really something. Paper billionaire yet lives/dresses like a poor college student. Hopefully this post will elminate perceptions of him as arrogant. his onstage/public persona is simply overcompensating for his insecurity and shyness in the front of strangers.
1) This post is wonderful, agreed Geoff, but it is through Robert's filter. Nonetheless, it is worth its weight in gold to read about Robert's experiences
2) While I know Robert is about video, the conversation with you and Zuckerberg is primarily about the information and to hear it from Zuckerberg. The setting, while I'm sure would add to the story, it is still secondary. Therefore, my point is this, if Zuckerberg is uncomfortable with Zuckerberg just mic him and get the pure comment in audio, the interaction between the two of you is classic, brilliant radio (net radio too, audio podcast,it just sounds better to say radio), not video.
Thanks for for the write up on this.
If I hear again about how visonary he is and how he is going to be the next Jobs I am going to puke.
Facebook is evolving into an insidous and invasive platform that is real story.
Obviously I've never met Zuckerberg, but in my experience, people who are shy are often the opposite of what you think, meek and retiring. In fact, they are very controlling and imperious, and they get their way by their passive/aggressive shyness. So Zuckerberg got his way here, and didn't submit to a normal video interview that anybody else in the industry would have done.
A particularly annoying thing about the FB applications is that many of them force you to uncheck all your friends to avoid having them spammed by the application -- instead of opting in your friends. Some of them won't even activate unless all friends are checked off and spammed. And that's why I've stopped using them, it's no fun sitting there unchecking hundreds of people. They need to stop that.
As you may know, Second Life isn't scaling any millions, It has 60,000 concurrent and about 1.3 million in last 60 days.
Just what if, Mr. Zuckerberg really did get employed to write code and ran away with the idea, what if........
I know that might make be be quiet :p <br
What if.....?
Another thing, after watching the last bit of coverage from CNN, a bit of uncomfortable non-pc-ness:
How Black or dark-skinned, or Muslims, Africans and South Americans Were there?
Maybe Davos/WEF is just a real-world version of the insular naval-gazing Blogosphere?
Kind regards,
Shakir Razak
I think that Facebook is not the last we will see of Mark. Guys like him, whether you like them or not, are always looking for new ways to do things.
Some guys just never really get confortable with cameras and the limelight. Plenty of good people out there like this. I actually have alot of respect for the ones that lay low and just concentrate.
Haven't you seen the photos... lots of Israelis, Arabs (even a queen), etc. there at Davos.
Let's not play the race card, dude...
The Internet is open to all. So is the ability to launch new ideas. Look at India, Korea, Brazil. All of these places have luanched great stuff. The beauty of the Internet is that it is race independent. Anyone with a high-speed connection and a good idea can help change things for the better.
I personally met some guys in South America who are doing some great things for the people there. Getting this young generation online and educated.
Just because people of color are not the highlight of the show doesn't mean they are not involved in meaningful, key ways. If an Arab queen is not enough of a person of color, let alone being a woman, then you have issues. She's smart, beautiful, and cares about the direction of her country and people.
Let's not play the race card... it only serves to make matters worse.
@94 - What if you tried contributing something positive? Maybe it would come back around to you.
It rarely hurts to ask questions, and pedents have a thing for looking beyond the superficial :p
I did start googling, but then realised that if you want to know more about the world, you will. I was talking about the WEF, not the internet.
Kind regards,
Shakir Razak
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/1...
wow, kool, its like meeting Hitler in person! :-)
http://getsatisfaction.com/facebook/topics/13_r...
I have been and will continue to get the word out about the truth behind Facebook and how it seeks to curtail users freedom (which, after all, is what the internet is all about), to find out personal information about its users (its not a crime to anonymous, but it IS a crime to obtain information that wasnt willingly offered by the user in the first place) and to place restrictions on its membership that are akin to some of the worst practices of an authoritarian, Nazi-like regime.
i am really sorry to be bothering you. But yesterday afternoon, i suddenly found my facebook account disabled for 'Persistent Misuse'. I can safely state that i do not spam, do not send unsolicited emails or do nothing that could be damaging. However, i must have violated some principles of facebook. But i am not sure what it is. I have not also received any warning messages. So please could my account be reactivated with a note as to why i got disabled. This would help me to follow your rules more vigorously.
I am sorry if my usage of facebook has caused any inconvenience. I have over 1600 friends and i do stay in touch with quite a few on a daily basis. So please reactivate my account so that my life can restart. I feel totally disconnected... :(
Thank you very much.
In anticipation
Warm regards,
Nishith Takia
nish.takia@gmail.com
Ridiculous.
My two-plus year old Facebook account was disabled last week suddenly and I did not understand why until I received an email saying that I had exceeded the number of permitted messages in a short amount of time. I was messaging American Bar association law student leaders who like me were just appointed to positions by the ABA. The students I messaged joined a new group I started. They are all willing to state that I was not maliciously messaging them or harassing them in any way. I have never before "spammed" anyone, and I did not know I was doing what Facebok considers to be over-messagiig until it was too late. However, no one I sent a message to would say I was harassing them, and they are willing to support me.
I have never before been accused of this in all the time I have been a Facebook user. I have always carefully followed Facebook's rules. I would never, ever maliciously message or "spam" anyone. Facebook's automated system misinterpreted me, and I am being punished for it. However, I still now know your rules, and it will not happen again. I am so upset over this, because I feel like I am powerless to prove that I was misinterpreted.
Thank you, Christopher Greco
crgreco@gmail.com
http://getsatisfaction.com/facebook/topics/13_r...
http://getsatisfaction.com/facebook/topics/13_r...
Zuckerberg, you'd better get off your fake shyness because I'm getting tired of your lame act. I'm collecting case files for a class action and suit and I will see you and your sham of a company in court.
I'm impressed a supposed internet God (freedom) meeting with the leader of a country with a history of some of the most flagrant human rights violations and one of the most repressive regimes in the world.
Zuck you suck man truly...
Are you that impressed with yourself that you are oblivious to what you are doing or even who you sanction by meeting with them.
Was this a productive meeting?
I mean the Prez of Pakistan is in trouble in his own country and I am sure he just popped in to get a few pointers from Zuck on how to further repress his countrymen in Pakistan.
After all Zuck is a real pro at repressing rights and setting up ambigous draconian rules.
Way to go Zuck like i said you suck.
Is your support Payola?
It sure stinks like it.
I can't believe somone who's opinion i respected could do such an about face.
Oh well c'est la vie.............
Shroyer v New Cingular Wireless Services Inc
held that a class action waiver and mandatory arbitration clause in a mobile phone contract was unenforceable because it was unconscionable under California law.
WE'RE GOOD TO GO !
there is a simple solution to the problem it is called programming. Code the delays right in to the program so that they cant be misused.
But when you steal someone elses code and scab it together for your own use one tends to overlook these things.
One thing i find really disturbing is that if you want to read any of the comments Zuck makes you have to do so on his facebook blog.
This means you have to agree to the terms of his site and become a member. in order to even read the terms of service you are bound by a clickover contract that states in essence. Just being on the site you have agreed to the terms. So in order to read the terms you first have to be bound by the terms.
This done by a man that preaches free flow of information on the internet.
Wish i could read those articles without having to agree to some 6000 word contract first.
I didn't send spam, I just wanted to invite my school friends to join my group of classmates.
I think it's wrong and unfair to disable my account.
The only thing I wanted, was to invite my old classmates that aren't my facebook friends to join my group who has as a title "(School name 1995 classmates"
I e-mailed disabled, info, appeals@facebook.com and nothing happens...
Please tell me what can I do to re-enable my login account...
I am desperate
Yours,
Giorgos Georgiou
My account was disabled just this morning and what kind of warning did I receive?
None
No reason for my account being disabled at all. And as I look back on all the things that I did on Facebook I realize that not a single thing that I did was a legitimate reason to disable my account.
i have emailed all the facebook address telling them my situation and hopefully i will get it re-activated, but this should not be happening.
SORT IT OUT
A) I have not had Facebook for 60 days.
B) I received a confirmation letter that I was accepted into my High School network.
I have since emailed appeals@facebook.com and disabled@facebook.com and have received an automated response.
I hope that there is something you can do to ensure that customer service can atleast provide me with a better reason as to why this has happened to my account.
thanks- Brian P.
thanks for the inconvenience you have caused all of us. how about one day you wake up and your fuckin bank says, your account is frozen for no apparent reason and no one would respond to your messages. FUCK YOU!
Alexandra Everist
Author of "A Katrina Moment"
www.alexandraeverist.com
68 million active users is even better.
I am home daily because of illness and I do no harm to anyone..This is how I control my depression.
Is this permanent?
Please reconsider and enable my account again.. thank you
My children got me to join facebook as a way of therapy because I am going through severe depression.. It is a way for me to open up and relax. It is a site that they felt I could be safe on. I am not a sex offender or do I deal in porno. I was depressed from abuse by my ex husband. I started out chatting and playing Mafia Wars.. I started getting notice on how to add 500 people on Mafia.. Being studid I didnt know it could cause to problems later on.. I was having fun..Then it got out of hand and I tried deleting them once I had them on my Mafia account.. Mafia led to Vampire Wars, Gangster, Mob, etc.. Then I found the SPP application and I was immediately hooked.. I started developing wonderful relationships there. Then came Farm Town and Yoville.. I lost track of who to delete and who to keep. Also If I deleted the wrong person I would lose my friends in SPP, Farmtown and Yoville. I dont care about Mafia or the other games.. I only care about Yoville, SPP, Farmtown..and applications like that.. None of the war games.. I have not only invested time in these applications but I have invested money buying Gold Items in both SPP, Yoville, MyFarm.. I have lost all of that.. as well as my friends..
I have many pictures of my family and friends stored on Facebook that I may never see again.. PLEASE I am begging you to please enable my account again. This means the world to me at this point in my life..My counselor knows about facebook and has encouraged me to continue it's use.. I do again apologize for any wrong doing on my part. I will delete everyone that I do not have contact with in facebook and I am going to delete mafia wars, etc.. All I want is my SPP, Farmtown, Yoville and this kind of applications..
Account that was disabled is mschultz@cebridge.net..
Thank you
Martha Schultz
then I reposted a request from an organization that provides support free of charge for people living with cancer for volunteers for a fund raising event...
I also posted a link to another fundraiser and asked who wanted to go with me...
I commented on several of my 120+ friends' (all of whom are ACTUAL friends that I would have in my home) posts on their walls including Birthday wishes to a dear friend and a "Hello" and "Congrats on your new baby" to another, who's friend request I had just received and accepted...
then later in the afternoon, a friend posted some lyrics to a song on his wall - so I "sang" along with others for a few posts...
and then posted my own update about my son's visit at the doctor, complete with picture.
Evidently all of THAT is what is considered Facebook SPAM, as I was then without warning restricted from Wall Posts!
Isn't THAT what Facebook is supposed to be used for??? Wasn't I doing EXACTLY what the site was intended for???
And what is with the piss poor complete LACK of standards and customer service??
The market is WIDE OPEN for anyone who actually WANTS the customer base and acts like it!!
Regards,
Tariq