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,
SF News Facebook, Other Tech Companies Step Up To Help Nepal, Matching Donations For Relief Effort A number of tech companies stepped up in the wake of the disastrous earthquake in Nepal over the weekend, but so far Facebook seems to have emerged with a surfeit of generosity, as
SF News Instagram And Tinder Hook Up For Seamless Stalking Instagram and Tinder are natural bedfellows. First, Tinder already integrates with Facebook, which owns Instagram, so basically it's all in the same incestuous family. And second, with the right degree of determination and
Arts & Entertainment This Is Why I'm Not Retweeting You It's been said often enough regarding our current cultural moment: We've all become a little too desperate for the immediate validation provided by Facebook Likes, comments, and retweets. For various media types and
SF News Most Teens Actually Still Using Facebook Remember how two years ago everyone was saying "the kids don't use Facebook anymore because it's uncool and their moms are on there?" Well, it turns out that isn't really the case, at
Arts & Entertainment Check Out Facebook's Cool New Frank Gehry-Designed Headquarters With Its Massive Green Roof A big chunk of the Facebook team is finally getting to move into their cool new Menlo Park headquarters, dubbed MPK20, today. And as Wired reports, that means they'll be getting to stroll
Arts & Entertainment Shocker: Facebook's Ad Guidelines Are Dumb, Blocks Hubba Hubba Revue Ads In a move that surprises no one whatsoever, Facebook's labyrinthian rules regarding ad content are so dumb that they wound up blocking their own, approved material. It's like some sort of Silicon Valley
SF News Facebook's New Rules Include Bans On Nipples, Revenge Porn, And Descriptions of Sex Acts After doing a bit of flip-flopping on issues like beheading videos and drag queen names this past year, Facebook has just updated their Community Standards, effective today, clarifying some of their previous policies
SF News These Four San Franciscans Are Among Forbes' 20 Richest People The World Wealth. Power. The four San Franciscans to make the élite Forbes list of the 20 richest people in the world have both and more. So, drumroll please! Your money-havers are Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey
SF News Facebook Shuttle Drivers Approve Union Facebook shuttle drivers who are employed by bus contractor Loop Transportation have approved a labor contract lending them higher pay and improved working conditions, the San Francisco Business Times reports. 87 drivers at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Angel Investor Snoop Dogg Makes It Rain With Philz Coffee Investment When he isn't sipping on gin and juice, it's Philz mint mojito iced coffee for angel investor and rapper Snoop Dogg. Marketwatch reports that the artist, who has recently gone by such stage
SF News Now Facebook Lets You Choose An Account Executor For When You Inevitably Die Facebook will outlive us all, or so the company suggests with a new policy that allows users to select a "legacy contact" to manage their accounts when they die. "Until now, when someone
SF News Day Around The Bay: SF Not Safe For LGBT People? First it was drag queens, and now Native Americans have been the target of a Facebook crackdown over "fake" names, which actually are not fake. And it looks like this dates to around
SF News Day Around The Bay: Sean Parker and Facebook Donate To Rand Paul There are now, allegedly, over 75,000 people on the waiting list for "Tinder for educated elites" The League. But is it really that exclusive? [CBS 5] Remember this lawsuit where some guy
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Song For Everyone Who's Facebook-Stalked Their More Successful Friends With Facebook friends like yours, who needs enemies? You can torture yourself just fine with posts from your highly successful pals. Stay up late again checking out pictures of their beautiful house/significant
Arts & Entertainment Humorous Video Suggests That Facebook Is The New AOL AOL has "become unfashionable," a time-traveling woman from 2015 told an inhabitant of 1995 in the (charming!) premiere episode of VH1 series Hindsight. I think we can all agree that she's not wrong,
