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Mark Zuckerberg appears on CNBC to discuss a social network (2004) [video]
- gcb0 11y agoAnd 20yrs later, they are still trying to serve me a flash video. sigh.
- Aoyagi 11y agoStill better than serving only HTML5 video as far as I'm concerned. Until someone makes a browser that can natively (...or at least with some plug-in) block those players and make them click-to-play like I can do with almost any Flash.
- gcb0 11y agouh... i'm not sure which crappy browser you use, but firefox mobile, the only browser you should be using this day and age, has this in the settings menu (don't even have to go to some hidden about:config) page.
- Aoyagi 11y agoCan you name a browser that can natively block Flash objects and HTML5 videos? FF can't as far as I know. I'm talking desktop, mobile is irrelevant for me. Edit: Oh, I didn't notice that "the only browser you should be using this day and age". That's enough to know about you to not be interested in anything you have to say. Have a nice day!
- gcb0 11y agofirefox desktop there isn't a UI option, but about:config media.autoplay.enabled=false will do the trick.
- tptacek 11y agoHe is a much, much better public speaker now: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/mark-zuckerberg-q-a-the-full-interview-on-connecting-the-world http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/mark-zucke...
- gojomo 11y agoHe wasn't so bad at age 19!
- bithush 11y agoI came here to say just this. Considering he had no prior experience and by his own accounts he is quite the geek I thought he spoke very well. He was articulate, kept his answers on point and not too long, perhaps a little wordy but people tend to over talk when nervous.
- ljk 11y agoanother rather awkward presentation from the zuck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCuvzENr4oY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCuvzENr4oY
- Hobotron1 11y agoWho's the scary looking bearded kid?
- larrys 11y agoSee this: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,689438,00.html http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,689438,... "Two years ago, Dan Stillman and Matt Eaton, then sophomores at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, launched WesMatch.com, a site featuring a humorous, elaborate personality questionnaire. The service allows students to rate themselves and their potential mates in categories ranging from sex drive to "socialisticbutterflyosity." "
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- sukilot 11y agoReally shows the incredible privilege and connections he had, so early in his life, that catapulted FB over all the other budding social networks. It's always about who you know to give your work wings (which is apt, since his project was a social network)
- softdev12 11y agoIf you really go back and do some digging into the roots of facebook, you'll be amazed at how much press he got early on. He supposedly offered to do computer support work for the Harvard Crimson and in return he got press connections. Even before he launched thefacebook, he was getting write ups with facemash.
- melling 11y agoDon't people always say that you need to spend as much time promoting your product as building it?
- stretchwithme 11y agoDistribution is as important as product.
- felipel 11y agoYeah, that's why there are so many Christians right now.
- stretchwithme 11y agoTotally. They aren't digging it out of the ground.
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoMore!
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- cymetica 11y agoMore interested in the algorithms of Google than a copy and paste of MySpace.
- stretchwithme 11y agoIsn't that a little like saying Google is a copy and paste of Alta Vista?
- cymetica 11y agoIf I can copy and paste what you're thinking, then yes. Otherwise, nope. Too hard to tell what's underlying the code in the case of a search engine, machine learning or artificial intelligence system. Large difference between the code behind intelligent algorithms and text entry boxes with DB calls. BBSs, TheWell, Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL, TheGlobe, Geocities, Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, what's next? Fill in the blank I guess. DMOZ, Yahoo, HotBot, WebCrawler, AllTheWeb, Excite, AltaVista, Lycos, Google, what's next? Too hard to tell. Google was founded on principles in artificial intelligence and now has a good handle on how to implement portions of AI along with all the other things they're doing. Facebook was founded by a guy who was a voyeur and called its users "dumb f*cks" for giving out personal information while rocking a biz card that said "I'm CEO, bitch!". Big difference and big difference in revenue too.
- rajacombinator 11y agoActually what Google does is fairly trivial and not based on "artificial intelligence" ...
- stox 11y agoAnd thus began the fall of Western civilization...
- stretchwithme 11y agoSo, what happened after that?
- onewaystreet 11y agoIt went pretty much like he said. They expanded to every college, then to high schools and then the world.
- time4hn 11y agoZuck
- look_lookatme 11y agoLots of jelly assholes in this HN thread.
- WA 11y agoWhat's with the hate in this thread? He achieved something quite remarkable. Back then, most people wouldn't have guessed that this silly campus site ever became as big as it is now. And now, Mark created a business with thousands of employees, changing how we communicate, how we discover information about the cities we live in. Give the man some respect. This isn't about his privileged background, but about the perseverance he showed for the last 11 years.
- pen2l 11y agoBasically it's his flagrant disrespect and violation of human privacy at a mindbogglingly massive scale. He got us here by tricking us with cheap tricks. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfaces https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfa... The way I see, he is one of the worst things to happen to the Internet if not the worst, but that's just my opinion.
- cymetica 11y agoI could not agree more!
- tim333 11y agoMeh - I'm on facebook all the time. Maybe they track my not very interesting interests and people use them to show ads which uBlock then blocks. His "flagrant disrespect and violation of my human privacy" doesn't really bother me. If I was doing anything I wanted to keep private I wouldn't do it on facebook - I just assume stuff on facebook is semi public. I'm not sure quite what the big problem is.
- sqeaky 11y agoYour notion that you can simply maintain privacy by not using facebook is part of the problem. For a long time facebook tracked people using flash cookies (also called Local Shared Objects) to track people with opinions flawed like your own around various website that are not facebook. What if they use some more devious tricks now? You might say that you use noscript, adblock or something else, but what about profiling you based information created by you browser. Browser fingerprinting - https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint I would rather simply avoid facebook and deal with people without a history of ethical issues.
- cymetica 11y agoFacebook CEO Admits To Calling Users 'Dumb Fucks' http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-use... "Mark Zuckerberg admits in a New Yorker profile that he mocked early Facebook users for trusting him with their personal information."
- rmc 11y agoIt's almost like he's a human being and is fallible.
- bch 11y agoWhat seems to be passed off as a foible seems to me to be sociopathic. Edit: less accusatory
- dang 11y agoTrash talking at that age is an embarrassingly normal thing to do. Accusing people of sociopathy without evidence is worse. It's also hugely diluting of signal/noise ratio in threads. Grandiose accusations are noise, and no evidence means no signal. Please don't post such things to HN.
- bch 11y agoRe: accusatory tone - I adjusted my comment to reflect more clearly this is only my take away. But I think his words and actions are the evidence. I understand trash talk, but calling your users (behind their back) "dumb fucks" sounds like nothing but contempt.
- dang 11y agoThanks for adjusting your comment. I want to expand on the point a bit further because I think it's important for Hacker News. But I don't mean to pick on you personally, so I hope you don't feel that way. How many people have any real basis for knowing what Zuckerberg meant by those words? A line like that could mean almost anything. You'd have to have known him at the time. Also, how many people can truly claim never to have said anything just as bad or foolish? Those two groups must be minuscule, yet to be justified in making such an accusation, you'd have to belong to both of them. Far more likely, what's going on here is wishful thinking, where the wish is e.g. to see someone else as a monster. The quote is just a convenient prop. People bring it out at the slightest provocation. It has become an internet reflex, so it no longer adds any information. More importantly, it's the opposite of the principle of charity—i.e. giving the other person the benefit of the doubt—which we try to practice here.
- brainpool 11y agoSeriously. That was a rather good presentation. Doing an interview for TV without much experience and come across without stumbling is not that easy.
- spacefight 11y agoGood memories. 15y ago I built a social network for our graduation year, 50% signed up ;)
- JohnLen 11y agoWe never know if our idea or product will grow big. Take the risk and launch it. There are some chances if we launch it.
- watson 11y agoIf you want to watch the video without having to install Flash, just replace "www" with "m" - Not the best video quality since it's optimised for mobile, but a nice productivity tip for Safari users ;)