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
SF News Facebook Grants Meeting To Drag Queens Regarding Name Policy [Updated] The story that SFist broke last week about Facebook cracking down on drag queens and other performers who use drag names in place of their real names has spread all over and even
Arts & Entertainment Drag Queens, Other Performers Outraged As Facebook Forces Them To Use Their Real Names [Updated] Facebook has recently launched a new crackdown on people using stage names, adopted nicknames, or drag names as their primary profile names, forcing local drag queens and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to suffer
SF News Rend Your Garments And Weep: Facebook Goes Down Yet Again [Updated] Remember when Facebook went down on August 1? Well, it's happened again, as of around 12:41 p.m. PT. What the hell are you going to do, instead? Work, like some sort
SF News 14-Year-Old Fatally Stabbed Over Rumored Social Media Dispute A freshman at San Francisco's Sacred Heart Preparatory School was fatally stabbed yesterday, over what the school's head football coach says were "social media issues." 14-year-old Rashawn Williams was stabbed by an as-yet-unidentified
SF News Facebook And Twitter Tweaking Timelines And It's Sure To Be Annoying Apparently people on Facebook don't know what the Onion is or can't bother to look past a headline to realize the story they're outraged about is satire. BBC News reports that now Facebook
SF News Facebook Shuttle Drivers Speak Out About Low Pay, Long Days, And Feeling 'Held Hostage' Sitting behind the wheel of one of San Francisco's primary targets of protests, annoyance, and all-out aggression, you'd think these two Facebook shuttle drivers interviewed by USA Today might plead "Please stop attacking
SF News Facebook Donated $10K To Anti-Gay Candidate In Utah The political-lobbying arm of Facebook recently made a cash donation of $10,000 to anti-gay-marriage Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes's re-election campaign, sparking some fury in the LGBT community. Reyes is currently fighting
SF News Ex-Facebook Guy Confirms Frat-House Vibe Of Company's Early Days In New eBook This should come as a shock to absolutely no one, but in the early days of Facebook, a very fratty, and uninviting-to-women vibe prevailed at Facebook HQ, which included a mural that dubbed
SF News After A Brief Outage, Facebook Returns To Suck Away Your Productivity [Updated] A nation of slacking workers released a collective gasp Friday morning, as Facebook started throwing error messages, displaying "network errors," and telling users "Sorry, something went wrong." There's no news yet from the
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
SF News Why Won't Twitter Announce Its Diversity Numbers? File under a positive trend, but depressing news: Facebook is the latest tech company to reveal its workplace diversity demographics and the breakdown is as white and male as data recently released by
Arts & Entertainment Why Facebook Likes Don't Equal A Life That friend who is always running 10 miles in the morning and posting about their seemingly carefree, glamorous lives? It's probably mostly lies. The great short film above illustrates the negative correlation between
SF News Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
Arts & Entertainment The 21 Least Amazing 'Viral' Posts That Never Blew Anyone's Mind One of the more tiresome, repetitive, and egregious trends clogging our feeds these days is the scourge of the purposefully share-worthy headline. You would think that by now people would stop falling for
SF News Twitter Gets More Facebook-y With Rumored 'Whisper Mode,' Group Chats In a new interview with Bloomberg, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo hints that the ubiquitous public-conversation venue will offer something akin to Facebook's private group chat function, and an in-between "Whisper Mode" option for
Arts & Entertainment Madame Tussauds Unveils Barefoot Mark Zuckerberg Wax Figure Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has had his image cast in wax by the famed Madame Tussauds. But the giant doll of this typical Missionite is missing something significant, and we're not talking about
SF News Jerk.com Called Out For Dickish Personal Data Practices A formal complaint filed by the FTC on Monday alleges Jerk.com and its proprietor/ Napster co-founder John Fanning took personal data from 73 million Facebook users, called them "jerks" and then tried
SF News Twitter Is Just A Quirkier Facebook Now Rumors that Twitter would completely re-do its look for the benefit of the less tweet-savvy folks came true today as the company began rolling out a new design and profile look meant to
