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This Is What Happens When Nobody Shows Up To a Mark Zuckerberg Speech

Silence can be inspiring. It can also be incredibly awkward, as Mark Zuckerberg learned in his 2005 return to Harvard, where almost no one showed up to his lecture. Luckily, Zuck harnessed the awkwardness to make some fascinating points. *WATCH NEXT: Elon Musk, before Paypal (Pre-2000)*   It’s also an unpolished, uncensored version of Zuck that we just don’t see anymore. Mark Zuckerberg Speaks To...

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This Is Ello’s Plan For Improvement

Many people have noticed something about Ello. There’s not much you can actually do on the site, despite its unnecessary complications. Well, that is going to change. Here are some important features that Ello is currently building, which will help them in their effort to catch up to facebook. Love/Love Bookmarks Youtube. Facebook. Twitter. Myspace. What can you do on every social network? Express...

One Man’s Journey To Post One Thing On Ello

This is a  slightly dramatized account of my efforts to post on Ello – the newly popular social network. Part of the confusion that ensued no-doubt occurred from my desire to learn the purpose of every meaningless icon. There are two tasks that should be incredibly easy on a social network – posting, and seeing the posts of others. On Ello, that first one is exceedingly difficult....

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Must Reads: “Liking” Everything, HD Phone Calls, And More!

As a blogger, I spend more time reading than I do writing, so I come across a lot of fantastic articles every week. Here are some of the recent, interesting articles you can’t miss. “I Liked Everything I Saw on Facebook for Two Days. Here’s What It Did to Me” By Mat Honan (Wired) Facebook is not one-size-fits-all. It’s engineered to adapt to our...

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Facebook Engineer Mocks Princeton Study

Recently, Princeton published a controversial study claiming the imminent demise of Facebook. In response, Mike Devlin, a Princeton data scientist, wrote a scathing and sarcastic criticism of Princeton’s research methods. Rather than address the Princeton study directly, Devlin applied the Princeton logic to Princeton’s own Google trends data (the data they used to predict facebook engagement), and predicted mockingly “Princeton will have only half...