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No sidewalk is safe for Mark Zuckerberg

Melissa Gira Grant — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT

The next update on his whereabouts had better be from his gym. (Can you even waddle in shower shoes?)

Facebook founder marks 100 million users with a profile update

Jackson West — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:00:00 EDT

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg announced that the site had reached a nice, round 100 million active users by way of a status update on his profile. Though he may have been scooped by Dave Morin, a senior manager in Facebook's platform group — on Twitter. Which should make for an awkward meeting. Marketing at least used the right tools to trumpet Facebook's reach, but they might also expect a grumpy young master soon, too. Why?

The number is higher by 10 million than the 90 million figure cited in the copy of an ad appearing in feeds for, yes, Facebook's advertising program.

Zuckerberg's profile also lets us know that his interests include "eliminating desire for all that really doesn't matter." I'm guessing he heard that at the ashram. Meanwhile, the site reminds me that sixteen of my friends have installed the Facebook application for the iPhone. So don't worry, advertisers: The site may not have it's numbers quite straight, but you can rest assured that Zuckerberg's quasi-spiritual minimalism fetish won't make him stop you from cluttering our lives with appeals to our insecurities.

South Park power outage frees workers from Web 2.0

Paul Boutin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:20:00 EDT

The power is out in South Park, San Francisco's startup epicenter. Wired and Yahoo Brickhouse — in the same building — are affected. Caffe Centro is down. Jack Falstaff isn't answering the phone. Six Apart, a block away on Fourth Street, is up. Workers are roaming the neighborhood. Got any more data points? Send 'em in to tips@valleywag.com.

Mark Zuckerberg's new Twitter friends

Owen Thomas — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT

When he moved Facebook to the Bay Area, Mark Zuckerberg deliberately set up shop in Palo Alto, not the self-involved hipstersphere of San Francisco. But he's been spending a lot of time in the City lately. Friday, a tipster spotted him in SoMa, near Twitter's headquarters. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and lover of beer and women, met with Zuckerberg yesterday at the Samovar Tea Lounge. And Zuckerberg just added Twitter cofounder Evan Williams as a friend on Facebook.

Here's something odd: Zuckerberg has had a Twitter account since at least May — mentioned in Rose's Twitter account of his teatime with Zuckerberg — but it seems mostly inactive. Is he just trying to fit in with the San Francisco crowd, or is there something more going on here? I'm reminded, for some reason, of the time Facebook PR director Brandee Barker friended her counterpart at Microsoft right before the two companies announced a big advertising-and-investment deal.