SF News Facebook Goes Down For Second Time In Four Days, Nation Weeps #facebookdown descripción gráfica: pic.twitter.com/pDB7QJJWG8— Cosme fulanito (@EsquivoAlexis) September 28, 2015 You may have noticed that Facebook crashed today right around noon Pacific Time/3 p.m. Eastern, only to hobble
SF News How Many People Does It Take To Protect Mark Zuckerberg's New House? Two years after Mark Zuckerberg snapped up a home at 21st and Dolores Streets, the Facebook founder and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have finally moved into the $10 million fixer-upper. That means
SF News Tech Companies Already Recruiting Boy Arrested For Bringing Homemade Clock To School While Muslim I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed's sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015 As everyone
SF News Facebook Will Get A Dislike Button As Zuckerberg Admits The World Is Not All Like-able For years, as the popularity of Facebook has exploded as not only a space for sharing enviable photos of your beach vacation but also as a place to vent about current events, mourn
SF News Facebook Rolling Out Temporary Profile Pics You know how half your friends made their profile pics rainbow in support of gay marriage 26 million Facebook users did, anyway and at least half of those still haven't changed them back
Arts & Entertainment Mark Zuckerberg Tops Vanity Fair List Of 'The Most Important Cultural Leaders,' Poses For Cover Photo Dolores-Park-goer Mark Zuckerberg is featured on the cover of glossy rich person chronicler Vanity Fair this October, homilized by the publication's editor as "an elder statesman" and "brilliant." And, by the looks of
Arts & Entertainment Tech Company A Cappella Groups To Perform In Relative Safety Of Atherton Tonight via GIPHY Though some might consider the performance of cappella pop music to be an inexcusable offense after (if not during) college, at least some employees from leading technology companies like Twitter and
Arts & Entertainment Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson Is Kicking It With Mark Zuckerberg If you are not following actor, wrestler, and international inspiration to millions Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson on Instagram, you are doing yourself a disservice. The Rock posts to his "fav" social media platform
SF News The Zuckerbergs Are Pregnant Brace yourselves for the Zuckerbaby! Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook this morning to announce that his wife Priscilla is pregnant with a baby girl. Also, did you know they had one of those
Arts & Entertainment Regulator Rules Facebook Has To Allow Pseudonyms... In Germany A data protection authority in Hamburg, Germany has ordered Facebook to allow its German users to employ names of their choosing, because to do otherwise would violate their right to privacy, as Reuters
SF News Apple Can't Get Developers To Build Apps For Watch, Could Introduce Chintzy Gold One At Lower Price The Apple Watch — the new must-have device from the makers of the iPhone, a device you literally must have in order to work the Watch — might not be selling so great. While we
SF News New 'Feminist' Facebook Icons Put Women Up Front A couple of subtle changes are coming to the graphic icons for Friend Requests and Groups on Facebook at the hands of in-house designer Caitlin Winner. As Winner discussed on Medium, she got
SF News Instagram Rolls Out Higher Resolution Photos Of Your Friends' Perfect Lives A photo posted by Lourdes Villagomez (@lourdes_villagomez) on Apr 17, 2015 at 1:48pm PDT The better to see your friends' perfect meals, vacations, and pets, photo sharing service Instagram is in
SF News Day Around The Bay: Dolores Park 'Trashed' Over Pride Weekend Trans person who works at Facebook (and even pioneered their agender policy) was banned from the site over the "real names" policy, and says the company's got "a very WASP notion of how
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sean Parker Plans To Give Away All His Money The Board of Supervisors narrowly voted to approve an advisory resolution (that is, it’s not enforceable) to hire more police officers after a lengthy argument, [Chron, Examiner] That unruly jerk of a
SF News Sheryl Sandberg Posts Moving Essay About Her Husband Dave Goldberg's Death To mark the end of her sheloshim, the first thirty days of Jewish mourning, acclaimed author and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has broken her silence on her husband's recent death. While on vacation
SF News Protest At Facebook HQ Flags ‘Real Names’ Policy for Review "Never underestimate the power of a pissed-off drag queen,” Sister Merry Peter shouted through her megaphone, addressing more than 150 assembled protestors at Facebook headquarters Monday morning. The ragtag band of privacy advocates,
SF News SF Pride Bends To Pressure From Facebook, But Board Vote Was Close Over 'Real Name' Controversy Last week we showed you the vaguely worded joint press release that was issued by the SF Pride board of directors and Facebook in advance of a June 1 protest that's set to
SF News Facebook And SF Pride Issue Joint Statements About 'Real Name' Policy As they face another protest on June 1 by the LGBT community, Facebook has issued yet another statement talking around the issue of their "authentic names policy," suggesting vaguely that they've been adjusting
SF News In New Deal, The New York Times Will Publish Some Articles Directly To Facebook In a deal that is expected to be announced Wednesday and has been anticipated for some time, the New York Times will publish select articles directly to Facebook, a place where news is
SF News Drag Queens Renew Fight Over Facebook 'Real Name' Policy, Demand That Company Be Banned From Pride Parades Using the hashtag #NoPrideForFacebook, a San Francisco group headed by the same drag queens who went to war with Facebook last fall are now calling for a ban on Facebook's participation in the
SF News Sheryl Sandberg's Husband Dave Goldberg Died In Treadmill Accident The sudden death last week of SurveyMonkey CEO and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, David Goldberg, was shrouded in a bit of mystery. But as of late yesterday news outlets were reporting
SF News Burning Man Is Over Part 247: Burning Man Facebook Page Hilariously Trolled It's been quite a year for the social experiment/desert party known as Burning Man. As hackers jumped their way to the front of the digital line to score their $390 passes, this
SF News Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey CEO And Husband To Sheryl Sandberg, Dies Suddenly Dave Goldberg, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and the CEO of the popular website SurveyMonkey, died suddenly Friday. The cause of his death has not been reported. He was 47 years old. Goldberg had
Arts & Entertainment Video: If Facebook Actually Filtered Everything That Annoyed You The joke, of course, is that if there were a Dislike button, or if the algorithm could actually read all the disdain, judgement, and jealousy you feel as you scan your Facebook feed,
