f8 08 Ad Nauseam
According to popular legend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once kept two versions of his business card in his wallet–one with the title CEO, the other with “I’M CEO . . . BITCH.” Seems that before Facebook became the de facto platform of the attention economy, it was a platform for the attention-starved.
Well, there was no shortage of attention for the social-networking phenom Wednesday as it kicked off its second F8 conference in San Francisco. In a 90-minute keynote address, Zuckerberg–a spitting image of Judge Reinhold in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”–offered up new details on Facebook’s new Great Apps program, the expansion of its Translation effort, and Facebook Connect, a service that will essentially transform a user’s Facebook profile into a portable Internet identity that can be extended to other Web sites. Also discussed: the company’s new mission statement and the first fruits of the fbFund, the $10 million reserve established last year to help finance new Facebook applications.
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Fully recognizing this is the moment when I became my father, I have no interest in or plan to use Facebook.
The generation gap just got wider.
Posted by David Owens at July 24th, 2008 at 2:46 pm