Paul Buchheit

Meet Evan Reas of LAL and His Proximity-Based Social Graph for Colleges (Video)

Liz Gannes in Social on May 2, 2011 at 6:20 pm PT

The start-up LikeALittle, or LAL, had fended off NetworkEffect’s reportorial advances for weeks. Funny, considering the site helps people flirt with one another.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Open Your Checkbooks: It's Demo Day Season!

Liz Gannes in Social on March 21, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

This week is Y Combinator’s Demo Day sessions (NetworkEffect will be in Mountain View, CA, for coverage on Tuesday), followed by those of AngelPad, 500 Startups and Tech Stars New York in the coming weeks.

1000Memories Funded by Greylock, Angels

Liz Gannes in Social on February 16, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

1000Memories, the social media site for friends and family to memorialize loved ones who’ve passed away, is disclosing today it has raised $3 million worth of funding.

Twitter Courts Google's Sundar Pichai for Head of Product

Liz Gannes in Social on January 8, 2011 at 6:49 pm PT

Sundar Pichai, the man in charge of Chrome and Chrome OS at Google, is being aggressively courted by Twitter to be its next head of product, according to sources. But Google is apparently fighting back hard on this latest effort by high-profile Web 2.0 companies, including Twitter and Facebook, to raid its huge talent pool.

Gmail Founder Says Chrome OS Is DOA

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 14, 2010 at 10:42 am PT

The founder of Gmail is taking a dim view of Google’s Chrome OS, predicting that by next year the project will either have been killed or merged with Android. In a series of posts on FriendFeed, Paul Buchheit argues that the Web-based operating system brings little to the table that Android can’t do better.

Path: The Social App That's Not Viral (By Design)

Liz Gannes in Social on November 14, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

While there are many interesting photo-sharing apps out these days, Dave Morin and Path are the most convincing about there being a larger idea behind what they’re doing. San Francisco-based Path is stubbornly focused on close personal connections–a.k.a. real friends.

Gmail Creator Leaves Facebook for Y Combinator

Liz Gannes in Social on November 12, 2010 at 10:59 am PT

Paul Buchheit, the well-respected developer and angel investor, is moving on from Facebook, which had acquired him along with FriendFeed, the start-up he co-founded and funded.

Voices

Facebook Exec Extols the Virtues of Setting Privacy to "Everyone"

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 5, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

Facebook is under a spotlight for new privacy settings that could lead users to unwittingly expose a lot more information about themselves. But in a keynote interview at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Facebook executive Paul Buchheit laid out the argument for why he sets his privacy settings to the most open level–”everyone.”

Boys Will Be–Especially, in Silicon Valley–Boys: Some Goofy Photos Après FaceFeed

Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2009 at 8:39 pm PT

Yes, that’s Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in shorts, knees and all, in a picture taken right “after signing the papers” to acquire FriendFeed for $50 million. The deal was announced today. One of FriendFeed’s founders, Paul Buchheit, posted them on his account at the online content-sharing site. They look like they were taken at night in someone’s driveway in Silicon Valley (nice fence!).

Take That, Twitter! Facebook's Cox and FriendFeed's Taylor Talk About the Deal (But Not BoomTown's $50 Million Guess on the Price)

Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2009 at 1:42 pm PT

After Facebook announced today that it had acquired online content-sharing site FriendFeed, BoomTown had a chit-chat with Facebook’s Director of Product, Chris Cox, and FriendFeed co-founder Bret Taylor. Although neither budged on telling me the purchase price, which various Silicon Valley venture capitalists I spoke to estimated to be about $50 million in cash and stock, the pair came together after several months of casual conversation, probably sometime after Twitter spurned Facebook’s $500 million offer last year. But, as in failed love affairs, moving on is the next best thing to do! No word on who got to break the news to No. 1 FriendFeed Fanboy Robert Scoble.