77
MP3 players, 18–20
Mubarak, Hosni, 53
Myspace, 42
Napster, 38
Narendra, Divya, 29–30, 49–51
Newman, David, 13–14
News Feed, 47, 48
New York
(magazine), 15
object-oriented programming, 15
Oculus VR, 7, 64–65
Olson, Billy, 23, 25
organ donations, 60
Palo Alto, California, 38–39,
40
, 43
Parker, Sean
background of, 38–39
Friendster and, 39
home in Palo Alto, 38–40
Thefacebook.com and, 39, 41–42, 44
wealth of, 56
PayPal, 41
PC Magazine
, 19
Person of the Year (
Time
), 6, 7, 52
Phillips Exeter Academy, 17–21
pinging, 14
Plaxo, 39
privacy
Beacon and, 48–49
Facebook log of websites visited, 7
News Feed as violation of, 47
Thefacebook.com safeguards, 35
“Put Online a Happy Face: Electronic
Facebook for the Entire College Should
Be Both Helpful and Entertaining for All”
(
Crimson
), 31
Quantex 486DX, 13
Said, Khaled, 53
Salmon, Felix, 64
Sandberg, Sheryl, 52, 55
Saverin, Eduardo, 33, 37, 56
Semel, Terry, 46
Sharif, Shirin, 36
Silicon Valley (California), 38–39,
40
Social Network, The
(film), 27, 30
social networking sites
Arab Spring and, 53–54
CollegeFacebook.com, 42
Facemash, 6–7, 25–28, 32
Friendster, 30–31, 39, 41, 42
Harvard Connection, 29–30, 49
LinkedIn, 42
mobile, 63–64
Myspace, 42
Plaxo, 39
Zuckerberg on importance of, 52
See also
Facebook; Thefacebook.com
Stanford Daily
(newspaper), 36
Star Wars
(films), 15–16,
16
Students Against Facebook News Feed,
47
Synapse Media Players, 19–20
TechCrunch Disrupt, 58, 60–61
Thefacebook.com
background of, 32–33
employees, 41, 42, 44, 45, 47
expenses, 29–30, 32–33, 35–37, 40–42,
46
fallback plan for, 38
features of, 34
investors in, 41–42, 44, 51, 59
name change, 46
network for, 33
offers to purchase, 37, 46
in Palo Alto, 38–40
popularity of
in 2004, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42
in 2005, 43, 46
revenues, 37, 41, 42–43
speed of site, 41
See also
Facebook
Thiel, Peter, 41–42, 46
Time
(magazine), 6, 7, 52
Tunisia, 54
virtual reality, headset for, 7, 64–65
We Are All Khaled, 53
WhatsApp, 63–64
