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This Is the Way Facebook Ends
Let's not forget everything Facebook has done for us. In leveraging our social curiosity and innate egomania, Mark Zuckerberg unleashed a social revolution, compelling us to share even the most mundane aspects of our lives. No longer anonymous trolls...
How We Ruined Silicon Valley
Long an oasis of innovation and meritocracy, Silicon Valley has often represented all that is pure in capitalism, a place where guys dare to dream big and big dreams come true, making its players outrageously wealthy, but also producing the kinds of...
ONES AND ZEROS: Facebook Christian Rock, IPO OGs, iPod Watches Are Getting Out of Hand
"Ones and Zeros":http://motherboard.tv/profiles/ones_and_zeros/posts is Motherboard's weekly investigation into the strange particle accelerator that is the internet.
Facebook is AOL, Twenty Years Later
It was an election year. An exciting new company, founded just seven years ago, was ready for its big IPO, a symbolic gesture to the world that they had officially made it. Many were curious about this new “walled garden” community that was sweeping...
No Babies, More Drama and Juggalos: How I Will Change Facebook
Apparently, Facebook is opening stock options to the public this Friday. I know about a lot of things, but the stock market is not one of them. However, I have seen the '80s guy episode of _Futurama_, where Fry and his Wall Street pal take control of...
Sorry Mark, Nobody Wants to Pay For Facebook
There are no shortage of oracle bones to presage the outcome of Silicon Valley’s largest ever IPO, no shortage of kindle for the raging pyre of hype.
ONES + ZEROS: Lying is OK, Stealing Too
Ones and Zeros is Motherboard’s weekly investigation into the particle accelerator that is the internet.
Mark Zuckerberg is Immature: So What?
Investors this week have been chattering about what they’ve deemed to be “marks of immaturity” for the traveling CEO during Facebook’s pre-IPO roadshow. The guy wore a hoodie?! How crass.
Seducing the Insta-Gs: How I Plan to Get Some of That Facebook Money
I was lurking around Twitter a couple mornings ago, doing my usual routine of checking up on old boyfriends, current crushes, and the Iron Sheik, and my entire feed was clogged with people losing their minds about the whole Instagram Facebook thing...
The Other David Choes: Meet the Real Accidental Billionaires
By now you've heard tell of David Choe, the Facebook "decorator" suddenly worth nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in stock amid the promise of the tech bubble's second coming, leaving most of us 99 percenters to wonder "wtf" we're doing with our...