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The Crucial Mistake Most Bands Are Making With Facebook

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

'Coding 101' Could Be Coming To A NYC Public School Near You

Mayor Bloomberg has repeated time and time again that he believes New York City will be the next Silicon Valley. And, in some senses, his dream is coming true: SoHo has become a start-up assembly machine, Long Island City is attracting tech-hybrid manufacturers with its large, abandoned warehouses a ... More >>

The Week in Privacy Problems: Who's Hacking, Selling, and Manipulating Your Data

This hasn't been a good week for privacy -- but is it ever, these days? Here are the hot messes that dominated the depressing privacy discussion this week. Hacking: Last night, Chinese hackers broke into the Times' computer network and stole every single employee's password, then used the data t ... More >>

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Mark Zuckerberg Will Fundraise For (Facebook Friend) Chris Christie's Re-Election

It's good to have someone with over 17 million Facebook friends on your side, especially when it involves a political campaign. According to Buzzfeed, Mark Zuckerberg, the social network billionaire, will hold a fundraiser next month for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie out in Palo Alto, Californ ... More >>

Jezebel: It Is Now Kosher to Eat in Soho

Tuesday the rabbi saw vodka

Mark Zuckerberg Was At The Knicks Game Today

The Knicks faced off against the Mavericks this afternoon and a very special guest was in the house. Mark Zuckerberg attended the game and sat in what All Things D says are $1,200 seats. Our best guess is that Zuckerberg wanted to see his fellow Harvard student Jeremy Lin redeem himself for yesterda ... More >>

Rise of the Facebook-Killers

At the pinnacle of the social network's success, its critics are busy building its replacements

BREAKING: Facebook Files IPO, 'Friending' and 'Liking' Jokes Ensue

​Facebook wants your money! The social networking behemoth filed its initial public offering today, so now you will soon be able to spend time and cash on the site by becoming a stockholder. (It's the American way!) Facebook, which was birthed in a Harvard dorm some 8 years ago, the New York ... More >>

Facebook 'Business' Cards Are Here

What do you get for the person who has everything, including a Facebook account? A Facebook "business" card, of course! We're not sure if these are more or less insufferable than the Facebook shower curtain (equally so, perhaps, but different?). On one hand, the point of Facebook is, we suppose, to ... More >>

Salman Rushdie Fights Facebook, Wins

​The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie is an enthusiastic tweeter. He often prompts his followers to play games like "Literary Smackdowns" (Joan Didion vs. Susan Sontag, for example), and today he started a new one: blasting Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook deactivated Rushdie's page, thinking it ... More >>

Marni Kotak, Artist, Will Give Birth at Microscope Gallery, for Real

Now that Facebook has decided to publish a timeline that includes all of our online goings-on since birth, we wonder what a tangible chronicle of this would look like. Enter the very pregnant performance artist Marni Kotak, who is transforming the Microscope Gallery into a home-birth center where sh ... More >>

BRINGING UP BABY

Marni Kotak puts motherhood on display

Your Awkward Blind Date Will Be Livestreamed

​How about we...arrange a blind date in which we will be watched by an array of other people, media professionals and whatnot, but really, whoever happens to be curious about what other people do on their blind dates (because we're all afraid of failing in this regard, right?). How about we go ... More >>

Anonymous Wants To Destroy Facebook

Twitter​Anonymous, the shady-yet-principled hacktivist group that has previously hacked into Iran's government emails, the Pentagon, possibly the IMF, News Corp, Anders Breivik's Twitter account, and much more, has a new target in its crosshairs: Facebook. The hackers have set the date for Fac ... More >>

What's so Special About Google ?

​Google has launched Google , a social networking service they hope will compete with Facebook and eventually destroy it and reduce Mark Zuckerberg to the sniveling street urchin he once was. Google , which can only be accessed by invited guests as of today, has stressed its focus on privacy, ... More >>

Tim Pawlenty Invents Charming Portmanteau; Filipino 18-Year-Old is World's Shortest Man

​Crazy person and Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty has come up with a totally inventive term for our current health care laws: "Obamneycare." Get it? Like Obama Romney. It's supposed to recall how Mitt Romney shamefully tried to help uninsured people with health problems as the gover ... More >>

Lady Gaga 'Goo' Diet Sends Baby Food Sales Through the Roof; Mark Zuckerberg Kills His Own Meat

​Rumors that Lady Gaga maintains her svelte figure while on the road by eating baby food have sent sales of the stuff, including Heinz Mum's Own Creamed Porridge, rocketing 100 percent. [Sky News] Food Network star Sandra Lee has just signed a five-book deal, including two food-themed novels, ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg Is "The Facebook Killer" (In A Good Way!)

​Mark Zuckerberg is supposed to be the people's billionaire. He's pretty un-hot, lives in a modest house, has a regular girlfriend, keeps a tight watch on his Facebook page, and only wears flip-flops! Billionaires: They're just like us! Well, one thing that normal people definitely do not do i ... More >>

Facebook Triggers Hormone That Makes You Feel Like You're Falling in Love

​Here is incontrovertible proof that Mark Zuckerberg is an evil, evil man: Scientists now believe that Facebook triggers oxytocin, also known as the "love" or "cuddle" hormone, which basically makes you feel like you're falling in love and that the world is a beautiful place full of butterflie ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg Might Have Promised Someone 50% of Facebook in Emails From 2003

​Everyone giggled a little bit when Paul Ceglia said he was the rightful owner of half of Facebook based on a promise from founder Mark Zuckerberg back in 2003. "If you had invented Facebook, you would've invented Facebook," and all that. The plaintiff waited until 2010 to file his lawsuit and ... More >>

Winklevii Row Out of Court Losers; Zuckerberg Wins Again

​It's a sad day for millionaire identical twin Olympians everywhere: Forbes reports a federal appeals court has ordered Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to accept their $65 million settlement with Facebook. That means no more suing Mark Zuckerberg. This is the part of the post where we are legally ... More >>

Facebook Ads To Get Even More Invasive

​Mark Zuckerberg's personal mission to sell thing you things is now even more next-level than it was previously, as Facebook has long delivered "targeted ads" to users based on anything you put into the site, from interests to wall posts to status messages. Now testing with 1% of Facebook user ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Has a Facebook Page; We Actually Just Wrote That

via Forbes​Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend have a new pooch you can man's-best-friend! [Christ, these words are going to be recorded for posterity.] Forbes reports that his name is "Beast," and the precocious Puli has his very own Facebook page. He's the most adorable on-li ... More >>

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10 Rules for Reacting to Facebook Break-Up Notifications

​Last week, an old friend we hadn't spoken to for a long time announced on Facebook that she was getting a divorce. She didn't do so by writing a message. Rather, she simply changed her relationship status from "married" to "single." (She also dropped her husband's last name for her maiden nam ... More >>

Woman Needs a Million People to Join Her Facebook Group So Her Wretched Fiancé Will Marry Her

​Imagine if you got engaged. Imagine if you waited a loooooong time, like maybe even 10 years, for your wedding. Imagine if, after those 10 years, your would-be lazy-ass husband tells you that the only way he'll actually marry you is if you create a Facebook Group and get a million people to j ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg Has a Facebook Stalker

​Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has filed a restraining order against Pradeep Manukonda, 31, after a series of very dark Facebook messages -- "please help me, then I am ready to die for you... Please understand my pain" -- and repeated uninvited visits to the Facebook offices in Palo Alto, T ... More >>

Runnin' Scared Is on Facebook. Like Us! Please?

​Mark Zuckerberg may have a Facebook stalker in real life, but we're still waiting for ours to show up! You'd do a better job of stalking us IRL if you become our friend first. So, like our Facebook page. Follow us on Twitter: @RunninScaredNYC. And make sure to write us creepy letters about ou ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Is the Second Most Philanthropic American

​This year our own New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg gave away $279.2 million in charitable donations to 970 nonprofit groups, more than two-thirds of which were in New York. This beats the $254 million he donated last year. (Each year he gives away a bit more.) In doing so, Bloomberg moves f ... More >>

Bloomberg and Zuckerberg: Power Pair Talk Facebook

​Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have just hired a "hot" Chief Digital Officer -- Rachel Sterne, New York City's first -- but who better to explain social media to him than Mr. One Billion Dollars himself? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (no relation) sat down with the mayor while he was in town to a ... More >>

Justin Bieber, Twitter Casanova

The Most Popular Boy in the World rules the only voting bloc that matters: pre-teen girls

The Facebook Craze Is Skipping Japan

​The New York Times has addressed Mark Zuckerberg's apparent global domination in an article called "Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan," which points out that Facebook has actually failed to win Japan. Although Goldman Sachs just valued the company at $50 billion dollars, the Japanese ... More >>

Facebook, LinkedIn Racing to Go Public

​Facebook, which the Wall Street Journal calls "one of the world's hottest technology companies" (have you heard?), will likely go public this year as its shareholders surpass 500 in number, forcing the company to either disclose its financial information "or go public by April 2012." This com ... More >>

Year in Film: The 2010 Voice Film Critics' Poll

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WHEN LIFE WAS GOOD

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Mark Zuckerberg to Debut New Facebook Profile Page Tonight on 60 Minutes

​Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will use Sunday's episode of 60 Minutes like one giant commercial for his company, unveiling the new profile page design on the air. Above is a screenshot of the episode's preview, giving us the pleasure of a first glimpse. In the clip Zuckerberg is described ... More >>

Facebook to Introduce "Gmail Killer" Email

​Facebook is the place for your friends, your farms...and starting soon, it will be the place for your email. According to TechCrunch, the email client is expected to be announced on Monday during a special event Mark Zuckerberg is hosting in California.

Eduardo Saverin's Facebook Page!

​Kudos to AOL's meme-happy blog URLesque. One of their writers, Daniel D'Addario, found ousted Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin's Facebook page. Saverin, who was once Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's best friend, was ejected from the company and given a fat settlement in exchange for keep ... More >>

Why The Social Network is All Good For Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg

​As is being reported across the entire internet, but initially by the New York Times, employees of the social network Facebook spent their Friday night spread out across two theaters in Mountain View, watching The Social Network, the movie about Facebook. The group, which gifted the local Cen ... More >>

According to The Social Network, You Are Definitely Not the Only Asshole on Facebook

Facebook Is Down, God Help: What to Do Instead

This guy.​You may not have noticed if you don't regularly update your social media constituents as to whether you're "eating a sandwich," or "sooooo tired right now," but Facebook is down. On the same day that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his donation of $100 million to Newark school ... More >>

The Medium Is the Message in David Fincher's Present-Tense Social Network

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Gets a Simpsons Cameo

​Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is finally going to show Jeff Bezos who's boss and play himself as a guest voice on The Simpsons. In the episode, Lisa and Nelson go to a convention for entrepreneurs after she agrees to fund his bike business, and (possible spoiler alert!) Zuckerberg reminds the ki ... More >>

Social Network Trailer: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Is a Creep, Is So Fu*king Special (Video)

​Maybe you've heard about the various misdeeds of young Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg because of the book about him, or the relentless blogging about him, or the leaked IMs, or because you use Facebook and know the distinct feeling of being violated in a sacred area: your Internet priva ... More >>

Facebook's Not Just For Stalking: High School Teachers and Organ Donors Pile on

​First of all, it's remarkable that anyone old enough to have been a teacher in the 1970s is also tech-savvy enough to use Facebook -- times they are a-changin' (and I'm sure the same folks get that reference). But it's also very sweet that former students are on Facebook seeking out teachers ... More >>

Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg Has Taken the Hoodie Off, Admits to Doing "Stupid Things"

Via Alexia T.Zuck bares all. Or at least his t-shirt. Click to enlarge. ​Facebook's young billionaire-in-charge, Mark Zuckerburg, is currently speaking in a discussion at All Things Digital's D8 conference, where -- as reported first by SF Weekly's Alexia Tsotsis -- Mark Zuckerburg took off hi ... More >>

Facebook Knows You're About to Get Dumped, But So Does Everyone Else

​According to AllFacebook, the unofficial everything you didn't really want to know about Facebook (but we're going to tell you anyway) site, Facebook actually knows about your upcoming breakup before you do. David Kirkpatrick, who has written the upcoming tome The Facebook Effect, which we ar ... More >>

Gawker's March Editorial Review Memo: Essentially 'Stop Writing Shitty Headlines.' Also "MOAR SEX CRIMES PLZKTHX"

​Why's it so much fun to read Gawker Media internal memos? Because (1) I don't work there any more so I don't have to sit here and project the fact that Nick Denton is talking about my shitty work *crawls under desk, cries in fetal position, frantically leaves five voice mails that get progres ... More >>