Posts Tagged ‘mark zuckerberg’

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Poker Face

February 10, 2011
Poker Face

So after much rumor-mongering, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently did a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live. He had a brief bit during the opening monologue, in which he watched host Jesse Eisenberg (who portrayed Zuck in “The Social Network”) open the show. Eisenberg was then joined by Andy Samberg, doing his own Zuckerberg impression. A spastic Zuckerberg fidgeted backstage, complaining to SNL producer Lorne Michaels that HE was the real Mark Zuckerberg and that he’d “invented poking”.

Thus, this strip was born.

For more on the SNL appearance, check this out.

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Ping Pong

October 20, 2010
Ping Pong

Steve Jobs reportedly asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to dinner, presumably to talk about integrating Facebook into iTunes Ping. As I wrote and drew this strip, a couple things struck me. Sure, Steve wants people to be able to add new Ping friends via Facebook, but seems totally uninterested in any data flowing out to Facebook the other way. Kind of the opposite of what a social network should be. Wonder if Mark actually pointed this out.

The other thing is that, despite both these guys being billionaires, they really are not on the same playing field at all. In the grand scheme of things, Zuck is still just a punk hacker that’s got a lot to learn. Doing a decent presentation would be a good start :)

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MyPhone

September 24, 2010
MyPhone

Recently, Michael Arrington at Techcrunch reported that Facebook was “secretly building a phone”. Facebook very quickly denied anything of the sort, and emphasized their commitment to supporting mobile implementations of their platform. Of course, there are still people that have latched onto this nonsense and still believe it to be happening, despite any real evidence.

This strip was inspired by a joke someone made on the “This Week in Social Media” podcast about what a MySpace phone might be. And here is the result.

On a personal note, I can’t for a minute believe Facebook would get into the phone wars. Just seems like a pointless diversion, given the other decent ways to get Facebook on mobile devices. That said, nothing Zuck does surprises me anymore.

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Foursquare Is So Zucked

February 4, 2010
Foursquare Is So Zucked

According to a “source”, Silicon Alley Insider posted recently that Facebook was working on Foursquare-esque check-in functionality. While Facebook has not officially commented, I think there’s little doubt this will actually happen. The article points out a few reasons why Foursquare should be worried.

For one thing, Facebook is something you (probably) already use, and you’d be sharing this information with people that are already your friends. Convergence of your existing Facebook account and check-ins could eliminate the need to use one or more other apps. And it follows one of the tenets of social media apps, in that you’re going to gravitate to the apps your friends are already using. As much as I used to like Pownce, hardly anyone I knew used it….and so neither did I.

The other point, and this is the one the strip makes, is that Facebook “can afford to fail”. With their engineering talent and money, why not throw some developer’s time at a “beta” check-in app? If it takes off, great. Foursquare then needs to evolve, and fast. If not, whatever. It’ll just get thrown on the pile of other stuff Facebook is surely working on that we may never see.

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