The New Yorker has an extremely interesting profile of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Jose Antonio Vargas was given unprecedented access to Zuck and conducted several interviews with him, his closest friends, and even his girlfriend.

I have to admit, I love Facebook. It’s one of the most important sites in the world. However, Zuck scares me a little bit. I’m not sure what his real intentions are or if we should all trust Facebook as much as we do. But then again, Google scares me in the same way.

One of the interesting things about Zuck is that his friends call him the “poorest rich person” they’ve ever met. He purposely slums it and never buys anything fancy. He drives an Acura that he bought two years ago and rents a home a he found on Craigslist.

The most surprising thing I read in the piece is that Zuckerberg is green-red color-blind. Blue is the dominant color on Facebook only because it’s a color he can see well.

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This from the FriendFeed blog:

We are happy to announce that Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. As my mom explained to me, when two companies love each other very much, they form a structured investment vehicle…

The FriendFeed team is extremely excited to become a part of the talented Facebook team. We’ve always been great admirers of Facebook, and our companies share a common vision. Now we have the opportunity to bring many of the innovations we’ve developed at FriendFeed to Facebook’s 250 million users around the world and to work alongside Facebook’s passionate engineers to create even more ways for you to easily share with your friends online.

FriendFeed says all FF accounts will continue to operate as normal for the time being, but they’re in the process of working out the long-term integration of the two services.

I’m a big fan of Facebook and FF, so hopefully the two can somehow seamlessly merge and we can enjoy the best of both worlds.

(hat tip TechCrunch)

MySpace was the first big social network to really break out and become a nation wide phenomenon. The MySpace craze was initially driven by kids and young people.

As a result, many professionals and other grown folks mistakenly believe social media and social networking is kiddie stuff. The truth is that many adults are on MySpace, but I’ll concede it’s mostly a younger crowd.

Facebook on the other hand is totally different. Facebook is the Myspace for grown-ups — only much better. Not only is Facebook a great way to stay connected with friends and family, but it’s also a great way to network, land jobs, and market products.

Companies not taking advantage of Facebook are at a distinct disadvantage that will only deepen over time.

Web Worker Daily has an excellent post that lists 32 ways to use Facebook for business. You should read it, bookmark it, and send it to friends.

With the rise of social media and social networks one of the problems I’ve had is keeping track of my social identities.

I have many social media streams and figured the logical thing would be to have them all in one place where clients, friends, or whoever can see them easily.

It turns out, there’s quite a few websites aiming to do just that! Charles Hamilton over at Web Worker Daily wrote a great piece on some of the best options available.

Off his list, I’ve personally tried both ClaimID and GizaPage. You can see my profiles on these sites below to get a feel for how they operate.

My ClaimID page

My GizaPage profile

According to TechCrunch, Google is in the late stages of negotiations to acquire Twitter. This news comes on the heels of Twitter’s recent rejection of an offer from Facebook.

It makes total sense that Google would want to get their hands on Twitter, because of the growing power of Twitter search. Twitter search is well on its way to becoming the most important search engine in the world.

Obviously, Google’s mantra of “don’t be evil” is starting to ring a little hollow these days especially if they end up acquiring Twitter. Google is amassing an unprecedented amount of data and power over people’s lives.

What do you think? Is it a good or bad thing for Google to acquire Twitter?

(hat tip Gary Vaynerchuk)