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Send to email | Saint Zuck in General | By Rough Ty el 02-Feb-2012 | "Facebook was not originally created to be a company," writes Mark Zuckerberg at the start of his letter to would-be shareholders in the company's IPO filing. "It was built to accomplish a social mission ? to make the world more open and connected." Hosanna! One of the great things about our newly transparent world is that we can peer into people's pasts - I mean, their timelines - and see what they were doing and thinking way back when. And when you scroll Zuckerberg's timeline back to Facebook's formative days, you do indeed see a young man filled with philanthropic fervor, a man without worldly desires who is putting his heart and his soul into a grand social mission. Just look at what Zuckerberg was doing, as a sophomore at Harvard, in the days just before he created Facebook. Working selflessly at his computer in his dorm, he created a site called Facemash. It pulled photos of Harvard undergrads from other campus sites, put two of the photos side by side on a web page, and allowed people to vote for which of the two was the "hottest." It then tallied the votes to create lists ranking students by their...
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| Saint Zuck | | "Facebook was not originally created to be a company," writes Mark Zuckerberg at the start of his letter to would-be shareholders in the company's IPO filing. "It was built to accomplish a social mission ? to make the world more open and connected." Hosanna! One of the great things about our newly transparent world is that we can peer into people's pasts - I mean, their timelines - and see what th [..] Read complete article |  | Published 02-Feb-2012 by Rough Ty in General Read 7 times. More hits in  |
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| Saint's Row 2 'a very differentiated product' | | Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, ActionThis is precisely why we're not in video game marketing. If we were trying to get our open-ended gangster romp into the hands of millions, we'd be sure to [..] Read complete article |  | Published 19-Jun-2008 by Ludwig Kietzmann in Brain-FarrellGTA-IVRadical-Car-NickingSaints-Row-2THQVolition Read 0 times. More hits in  |
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| Saint's Row 2 'Corporate Warfare' DLC coming May 28 | click to corporate-size
In the world of Saint's Row 2, the Ultor Corporation isn't looking for a massive government bailout -- it has an internal "civil war" to deal with. "Corporate Warfare," the [..] Read complete article |  | Published 21-May-2009 by Randy Nelson in psn-storesaints-row-2saints-row-2-corporate-warfaresaints-row-2-dlcthqvolitionxblm Read 0 times. More hits in  |
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Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
 | Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
 | Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Saint's Row 2 Soundtrack Revealed [Saint's Row 2] | | Saint's Row 2 is just around the corner, and in order to whet fans' appetites even further, THQ has released the full track listings for the in-game radio stations. There are 11 different stations ranging from rap to funk, alternativ [..] Read complete article |  | Published 07-Oct-2008 by Mike Fahey in saint's row 2 Music News Soundtrack Thq Read 0 times. More hits in  |
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