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The New Yorker Gets Up Close and Personal With Mark Zuckerberg

Date: 14 Sep 2010 | Tags: ,,, | 
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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...



Video: Pete Cashmore On How He Grew Mashable

Date: 08 Jul 2010 | Tags: ,,, | 
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Here’s Mashable’s founder and CEO Pete Cashmore on how he grew Mashable into one of the world’s most profitable and influential blogs. var so = new FlashObject ("http://bizweektv.pb.feedroom.com/businessweek/bizweektv/pboneclip/player.swf", "Player", "425", "344", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable ("Environment", ""); so.addVariable ("SkinName", "pboneclip"); so.addVariable ("SiteID", "bizweektv"); so.addVariable ("SiteName", "bizweektv"); so.addVariable ("ChannelID", ""); so.addVariable ("StoryID", "ddcb0e9ffa0953416a06e1cc644a7bbbc5fd16e3"); so.addVariable ("Volume", ".5"); so.addVariable...



WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Blog Posts

Date: 18 Jun 2010 | Tags: ,,,, | 
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The installable version of WordPress just reached version 3.0 , but the hosted version –- WordPress.com — has its own milestone to report today: 200,000,000 blog posts on the platform since its inception. That total comes from 11.4 million blogs that are hosted on the site, and in all, WordPress reports the site is seeing more than 260 million people visit its blogs every month (according to data from Quantcast). Go here to see the original: WordPress.com Passes 200 Million Blog Posts



Video: Mashable Media Summit Live Stream

Date: 08 Jun 2010 | Tags: ,,, | 
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mashable on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free...



Start Slowly With Social Media

Date: 20 May 2010 | Tags: ,,, | 
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I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen people just starting out with social media try and be everywhere at once. Businesses especially need to understand that being on more networks is not necessarily better. If you’re trying to get your brand some social media exposure for the first time take it slow. Establish a presence on Facebook and Twitter to start with, or maybe Twitter and LinkedIn. You can decide which networks are going to be best for your brand, but the important thing is not to get carried away. There are too many people who never met a social network they didn’t...