Liz and I watched/saw Social Network, the film about the advent of Facebook and what happens to its initial key players. The movie had a lot of geek action about writing code, firing up servers, traffic volume and so one. And there was no lack of dramatization either (like the portrayal of Havard's elite club social events).
Zuckerberg is ironically made out to be a pathetic sociopath with few genuine social acquaintances and a one-track mind toward expanding Facebook's reach and positioning himself at the center of the the network.
In relation to that, this HBR blog posting caught my attention. The last line of the article is a jab at the very Harvard drop-out who co-founded the Facebook empire.
1:38 PM Wednesday February 2, 2011
by Jeffrey F. Rayport
"...By any conventional measure, Facebook could easily rank as the largest online publisher in the world. Sure, YouTube users now upload hundreds of thousands of videos to the site a day, but Facebook users uploaded 750 million photos over a few weeks during the holiday season alone. Google is a major player in the online publishing ecosystem, but in its core business Google points to content; Facebook actually hosts it.
Three remarkable realities account for the logic (and irony) of Facebook's absence..." (...Read more)
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