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BoomTown Decodes the Zuckerberg Terms of Service My-Bad Memo (Now With 10...
Under cover of darkness last night, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on the social-networking site’s blog that it would “return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the...
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Another Teaser Trailer for The Facebook Movie: 100 Percent More Poking of...
Here’s another teaser trailer for “The Social Network,” which makes it clear that the movie is going to be a warts-and-all-and-then-more warts portrait of the beginnings of Facebook. Most maligned:...
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The Facebook Movie's First Review Is Boffo: Here's How Mark Zuckerberg Can...
Apparently, the review is in–only one review, so far–but it’s a corker. Although “The Social Network,” the Columbia Pictures movie about the origins of Facebook, is not coming out until its premiere...
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The New Yorker's "Face of Facebook"
The New Yorker finally came out with its profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today, titled “The Face of Facebook.” And while the magazine piece by Jose Antonio Vargas reads well, there is not much...
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The Facebook Movie Is Here, the Critics Love It–So Let the Panels Begin!
The world of Facebook did not stop last Friday–although its unusual downtime was kind of spooky–when “The Social Network” made its debut in New York. The much-anticipated movie opens wide this Friday...
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Winklevii Vs. Zuck: Who'd You Rather?
The Facebook movie might have performed slightly below box office expectations last weekend for Sony (SNE) movie unit Columbia Pictures, but it certainly has invaded the mainstream zeitgeist. That’s...
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Liveblogging the Unveiling of the SFund at Facebook (With Guest Stars:...
BoomTown had to park a badillion miles away from Facebook’s suburban HQ in Palo Alto, Calif. and hoofed it there for a press event that unveiled the sFund. What’s that? A $250 million fund for social...
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Exclusive: Brandee "No Comment" Barker Finally Comments–Longtime PR Honcho Is...
BoomTown usually does not get all weepy over the departure of public relations folks at Internet companies, in that cynical I’ve-seen-’em-come-and-I’ve-seen-’em-go kind of way. But the leaving of...
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CBS's "60 Minutes" Revisits Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (And BoomTown Takes...
This Sunday, the CBS television news magazine “60 Minutes” returns to Facebook after several years to check in on co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the first interview by correspondent Lesley...
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Viral Video: The Whole Fuddy-Duddy "60 Minutes" Zuckerberg Interview
Here is the whole CBS interview on “60 Minutes” of Mark Zuckerberg, which aired last night. The quick poll of the piece on Twitter and in the blogosphere: The Facebook co-founder and CEO did great and...
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When Facebook Bought ConnectU From the Winklevii (Or, Parsing Legal Filings...
Earlier this week there was some confusion about outlets reporting that Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss had filed another lawsuit against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for stealing the social networking...
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Déjà Vu: Facebook's Questionable Stock Hijinks Feels Like Winklevii 2.0
Many years ago, before Google went public, I had an unusual late-night conversation in the lobby of the TED conference with its co-founder Larry Page about the prospect, about which–despite its...
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Viral Video: CNBC's "The Facebook Obsession" Features More Mark Z (Plus...
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is certainly in the midst of a media bonanza. Aside from all the heat over its recent investment whatever with Goldman Sachs, the young entrepreneur has...
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Over Here, Winklevii! NetworkEffect Goes to Court.
Today the NetworkEffect staff of one is packing up the MacBook Air and heading to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for a scheduled hearing of “The Facebook, Inc. v. ConnectU, Inc.” The...
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Appeals Court Judges Seem Skeptical of Winklevii Claims
Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have spent a lot of time in court, and the rulings rarely seem to go in their favor. But the Olympic rowers and one-time social networking entrepreneurs–one twin’s suit was...
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"Beyond the Search Box": The White Pleather Honeypot Smackdown
Perusing AOL’s leaked damn-the-journalism-full-speed-ahead business plan, BoomTown was a little late to the Microsoft Bing event this morning called “Farsight: Beyond the Search Box.” But things had...
View ArticleWinklevii Keep the Dream Alive With Media Blitz
Though Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss no-commented me and other reporters in a San Francisco court last month, they can’t seem to stay away from bashing Mark Zuckerberg for long. The twins, who are...
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Winklevii: How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away? (Plus the Full Court...
It seems Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Don Quixote twins of the digital age, have tilted at yet another legal windmill unsuccessfully. So now, after losing another court challenge to overturn a...
View ArticleWinklevoss Brothers Shot Down by Court Again
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected (PDF) a request by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to rehear their case against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. The Winklevii had petitioned for an “en banc”...
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Winklevii Go for Gold, Say They'll Take Facebook Case to the Supreme Court
Following the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to deny Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss’s request to rehear their case versus Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, the twins’ lawyer said they intended to...
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