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The Amazing Internet Girlfriend

in News on March 28, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Would That the Real Mark Zuckerberg Talked as Much as the Facebook Movie Mark Zuckerberg

in News on October 2, 2010 at 4:01 pm PT

Mark Pincus can sure talk a blue streak. Mark Cuban can easily be classified as a chatterbox, both online and off. And Marc Andreessen certainly knows how to keep up his end of the conversation. In other words, the pantheon of famous digital entrepreneurs is full of blabby Marks. But Mark Zuckerberg, not so much.

AOL and Facebook Get the New Yorker Treatment

in News on September 1, 2010 at 9:16 pm PT

Within the next several weeks, the New Yorker magazine will be publishing big pieces about a pair of digital icons located on the East and West coasts–an assessment of the turnaround at AOL by staff writer Ken Auletta and a profile of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Huffington Post senior contributing editor Jose Antonio Vargas. So fire up the iPad!

Liveblogging Facebook's F8: Behind the 8-Ball on a Stairway to Heaven!

in News on April 21, 2010 at 10:10 am PT

So, BoomTown was in the Design Center Concourse in San Francisco for Facebook’s f8 developers conference. There was a giant logo of an 8-ball looming over it all, which suggested a questioning mood. Not at all! Lots of stuff was announced, including ventures with partners like Microsoft.

YouTube’s Music Videos: Popular, Money-Losing. For Now.

in Media on December 19, 2008 at 1:12 pm PT

Music videos on YouTube are money-makers for the music labels, and a money pit for Google. That may change next year: Even Google can’t afford to lose money every time someone watches an Avril Lavigne clip.