Arts & Entertainment Artist Smears Mark Zuckerberg With Poop-Paint Portrait This shit is art. KATSU, a well-known, New York-based hacker, vandal, and graffiti artist who has repeatedly lampooned technology in his work, has now used his own feces to paint a portrait of
Arts & Entertainment Virtual Reality Porn Is Coming To Facebook's Oculus Rift You knew this day was coming: virtual reality porn will soon be available on your Oculus Rift. Utherverse, the self-proclaimed "world's only 3D social network," unveiled at the XBIZ conference in Los Angeles
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's New Book Club Sold Out Its First Title On Amazon Mark Zuckerberg is not like us. For example, when it comes to New Year's resolutions, the Facebook CEO actually achieves things. And in the five short days of 2015 so far, he's already
SF News 2014: The Year Facebook Started To Figure Out How It Hurts People In a further example of the ways in which Facebook's corporate team can be a little short-sighted about human existence, the company got a very public drubbing over the holiday week after web
SF News $35 Billion Instagram Valuation Overtakes Twitter, Approaches Uber $35 billion. That's how much Citigroup says the photo-sharing network Instagram is now worth, according to the New York Times. Facebook owns the company, which it purchased two years ago for $1 billion
SF News Disrupt The Halls: Pics From 2014's Excessive Tech Holiday Parties It's not just about who has the bigger tree and the better eggnog. Tech companies in SF are, once again, competing to delight their workers in a holiday party proxy war. Yahoo recently
SF News Zuck Attack: Why Is Brazil Trolling Facebook Founder's Facebook Page? Brazilians, for some reason which I'll say at the outset no one seems to know, have been sending an astounding number of likes, stickers, and comments to Mark Zuckerberg's timeline, TechCrunch reports. Is
SF News Day Around The Bay: World AIDS Day Today is World AIDS Day, and the Chronicle has some columns from the epidemic and the first day of remembrance in 1988. [Chronicle] A man died in an SF county jail on October
SF News New 'Facebook at Work' Service Means Business, Not Pleasure Could Facebook be your new friend in the office? Zuck and co. hope so. Unsatisfied with its 757 million daily users' average of 40 minutes per day looking at drunken photos of friends
SF News Twitter Launching New Features Next Week, Unveils Bland Strategy Statement As was rumored earlier this year, Twitter is adding some features to make it both more Facebook-like, and easier to use for new users, as they announced in a public presentation Wednesday. Also,
SF News Facebook COO Leans Out Of One House, Into A 9200 Square Foot New One Sheryl Sandberg, who is the COO of Facebook, author of Lean In, and does a better job than Gwyneth Paltrow at making you feel lazy, recently sold her house in Atherton for 9.
SF News The Tech Company Egg Freezing Debate: Great Perk, Or Terrible Message? Women nearing the decline of their best baby-making years have long-undertaken the practice of having their eggs frozen, a procedure that can cost of well over $10,000. Now companies like Facebook and
SF News Zuckerberg Ponies Up $25 Million To Fight Ebola Likely influenced by his benevolent doctor wife Priscilla Chan maybe she's really changing him, you guys! Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that he's donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation
SF News Facebook To Launch Secret-Esque App For Anonymous Trolling Facebook has been a little too much in the news lately, but here goes: The company that just a couple of weeks ago was insisting that everyone could only use their legal names
SF News Teamsters to Zuckerberg: 'Let Shuttle Drivers Unionize' Fast on the heels of this story last week about the long hours and miserable lives of corporate shuttle bus drivers, the Teamsters decided to reach out to Mark Zuckerberg himself in a
SF News Facebook Changes How It Will Experiment On You Two apologies in one week! Crazytown. Fast on the heels of apologizing to the LGBT community and everyone else for their "real-name" policy, Facebook has issued a statement apologizing for that debacle over
SF News BREAKING: Facebook Issues Mea Culpa To Drag Queens And Others Over 'Real Name' Policy [Updated] Three weeks after SFist broke the story about Facebook's "real-name" crackdown on drag queens and performers a story that made headlines literally everywhere, because the internet loves drag queens it appears that the
Arts & Entertainment Ello Backlash Already Begun? The S.S. Ello, which was calling “all aboard” in the last few weeks, has set sail and might well be headed for rough waters if the first thunderclouds of adverse internet reaction
SF News Anti-Facebook Social Network Ello Sees Major Spike In Sign-Ups I, like a number of my friends, have been itching for some alternative to the mind-altering, all-consuming world of Facebook, now that the company has proven itself to be less than progressive when
SF News Space Race 2.0: Facebook Matches Google Balloons With Internet Drones Facebook will match your balloon and up you a drone. Just as Google put a brave face on its Project Loon, the mission to blanket the world in internet broadcast from high-altitude balloons,
SF News Reporters Disturb Mark Zuckberg's Neighbors To Report That Mark Zuckerberg Disturbs His Neighbors ABC7 alerts us to the fact that the Zuckerberg renovation disruption we told you about yesterday is one of NINE residential construction projects going on in the Facebook founder's Dolores Heights neighborhood, which
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's San Francisco Neighbors Have Just About Had It With Him Underdressed-dressed billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have spent the past 17 months renovating their 1920's Dolores Heights (what?) home and show no signs of stopping. The Chronicle's Matier &
SF News Is Someone Seriously Calling Themselves The 'Real Name Police' For Facebook? Someone who has nominated themselves to be Facebook's "Real Name Police" has launched a Twitter account (only three followers so far) to show others how to report drag queens using stage names to
SF News Zuckerberg Has Always Believed That We're Only Entitled To One Identity Whether you accept that Facebook's "real name" policy is vital to them doing business or not, CEO Mark Zuckerberg made it clear years ago that he has no patience or sympathy for people
SF News Drag Queens, David Campos Meet With Facebook Over Real-Name Controversy [Updated] A group of San Francisco drag queens have arrived in Menlo Park and are currently sitting down with Facebook executives to discuss the controversy over forcing them to use their legal names a
