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02/17/09
02/15/09
Zuckerberg joined the McDonalds Network!
02/16/09
lmao
02/16/09
He is more like a kid on a tour through a chocolate factory than a serious leader. In fact, he doesn't speak to shareholders, he speaks to widget developers. At a super cereal "F8" summit.
He honestly thinks of himself as some sort of civil rights leader. Yet:
What is a Zuckerberg movement?
- A business
- That doesn't earn revenue
- Solely funded by venture capital funded
- Proprietary to the point where "openness" has no meaning outside the site.
- Facebook Connect, Widgets. None of these show any software portability, let alone open source.
- While touting privacy features, the idea of making an account period is giving privacy away. That's like saying, Why not put this vial of HIV in your body, We'll help you manage it!
Can't you see? There is NOTHING that can save this site. Yahoo has better and more revenue-earning features and they can't even stay up.
If you think Sheryl Sandberg, wife of a VC can save facebook, you're clearly tweaked out.
Where is the merit? Everyone in web 2.0 is a best buddy. The true businessmen that can help (read Winklevoss) are being screwed over.
It's the fallacy of Ivy League. While you have connections, you may not have the one's you really need. Or you may steal their code and make them sue you instead of help the business they made.
Everything this kid done is conducive for a 13 year old running a turnkey Vbulletin of Invision Power Board site.
02/17/09
02/15/09
That means no zombie gobbledegook. A straight-forward, efficiently ran business. Afterall, the website is supposedly toned with authenticity. This is supposed to be the authority of all sociality.
Then of course, there's Zuckerberg. Who probably couldn't manage a fucking Arby's. Enjoy facebook while it lasts. This kid's going to run it into the sea. You may as well pick a CEO hell bent on sabotaging his own business, because you're going to get the same result. This is like a nightmare. Imagine the beautiful prom queen having to date some pretentious aspergian trekky with a big nose. It's surreal shit.
This is no Microsoft.
02/15/09
02/16/09
02/15/09
Sidestory: I knew someone who had an uncle who served in the Army with the most decorated soldier of WWII, Audie Murphy, who made the law. Uncle said, we had to wash his mess kit for him. Said the niece, they do all the work and he gets the glory.
I learned from that how wide be the nexus sometimes between reality and presumption. Like, Audie Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor for the World's Cleanes Messkit?
A rainy Sunday ...
02/10/09
02/10/09
These Emanuel's and our Rahm-Bomb are related, but I don't have the motivation today to find out if it's a 2nd generation connect, or a 100th. That's what Facebook is good at, but only young Zuckerborg and a few select intelligence drones have that magic key, one would assume.
02/10/09
02/10/09
That's just what they teach at the business school.
02/10/09
Zuckerberg is the love to hate kid.
Honestly, if it weren't for Zuck's narcissistic, pandemically-cretinous parasite ego it wouldn't be as bad. I'd rather Facebook be owned by Fox than some dope who furthers the "nerd lottery" myth.
His parents bought his way into Harvard and had earned himself some connections. He got publicity. He got hits. He got users. He has created a fad. And here it is, in climax as we speak...
And he can't make fucking money? Are you kidding me?
It's amazing, because all of these so-called "capitalistic" moves by Zuck are going to eventually amount to another deadbeat gone bad. Only this one will return to shitty karma and slammed doors.