The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World's Least Social People

Tuesday, May 15, 2012 The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World's Least Social People The first time I interviewed Mark Zuckerberg in person, he -- astoundingly -- thought he was doing a good job at being natural. After all, he was answering all of my questions in short single word bursts. Like many coders, he places efficiency next to Godliness. He built Facebook so you could be in-and-out within minutes, but come back many times a day -- even though this was anathema to anyone who knew anything about building an ad business online. Surely an interview was the same, right? Siri Gets Muzzled UH-OH! GM Pulls Facebook Ads Days Before IPO Top 11 People To Follow On Viddy Donald Trump's Marriage Advice To Mark Zuckerberg How You Can Make The Instagram Camera A Reality BLOG POSTS Franck Nazikian: Competition with Chinese Characteristics With an online population of over 500 million and a consistent double digit growth rate, the region with the biggest stakes and the most significant prospects is none other than China. Evan Ross Katz: Xtra, Xtra: The Grindr Chronicles Hunky goodness is (really) great and all, but the problem for me became the heartbreak. "NSA" means "No Strings Attached," and not the Mila Portman/Ashton Timberlake film but the reality that this encounter will never happen again. Daniel Kent: Should Information and Communications Technology Experts Have a Seat at the Table During the Rio 20 Summit? The Rio+20 Summit doesn't appear to have been updated to include a technology that was in its infancy in 1992 -- Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Jordan Philips: Re-Joke My Advert It transpires that people have an aversion to corporate Twitter accounts. Trying solely to sell or link to your content is a faux-paux tantamount to having toilet roll escaping from your trousers at a dinner party. Clara Shih: What the Facebook IPO Means It's electrifying here in Silicon Valley this week, even more so than usual. Normally, many of us are heads down, focused on our own companies, but right now, even in the land of "what's next?" all anyone can talk about is the Facebook IPO.

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