Mark Zuckerberg, In It To Change the World? 268
schmidt349 submitted a story about Zuckerberg that might fly in the face of what you've heard of the guy in the past. "Award-winning New York Times journalist David Kirkpatrick's new book The Facebook Effect presents readers with a complex view of Facebook's founder and CEO. Primed by hours of conversation and research deep into the history of the social network, Kirkpatrick reaches the conclusion that money isn't a primary motivation for Zuckerberg, 'a coder more than a CEO, a philosopher more than a businessman, a 26-year-old who has consistently avoided selling out because he sees Facebook as his way to change the world.' Kirkpatrick deftly handles the controversy surrounding Facebook's sometimes cavalier attitude toward user privacy, and the result is a much more balanced and less sensationalist account of Facebook's past, present, and future."
The 'authorized' biography (Score:5, Informative)
I think we can expect to see much, much more of this, as Facebook tries to change their CEO's image.
Apparently there is an unflattering movie coming out in the Fall and I assume they want to get ahead of that.
Immaterial (Score:2, Informative)
The Economist's review of the same book (Score:4, Informative)
The Economist's review [economist.com] doesn't necessarily answer your question, but I would say it's more informative overall.
has super-user access to full profiles (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What a conveniently timed puff piece (Score:3, Informative)
He actually was a philosopher. Read his Discorsi on how to structure a democratic society. The man wasn't evil, he was a realist.
Re:Well Obviously. (Score:3, Informative)
To rephrase your last phrase, social networking is all about the network effect. Facebook is useful to me because I've got friends and family on it, not because of (shudder) Mafia Wars. A social network without anybody I wanted to, um, socialize with would be useless to me.
huh? It exists, called OpenId (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Again.... (Score:3, Informative)
Mother Theresa who took 1.4m stolen dollars from Charles Keating [wikipedia.org]? Mother Theresa gave a hell of a fuck about money, mainly by fetishizing the suffering of those without it....
Read up [amazon.com].
Otherwise I agree.