Arts & Entertainment Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: I No Longer Post Pictures Of My Kids On Facebook By D. Hanousek For a long time, I was one of those parents who posted adorable pictures and videos of my precious offspring on Facebook. On almost a daily basis, in fact. Since
Arts & Entertainment Photo: Giant QR Code Painted On Facebook Headquarters' Rooftop Facebook honeybees recently painted a 42 foot wide QR code on the roof of the company's new headquarters in Menlo Park. Ta-da. Laughing Squid points out, "The QR code arose when CEO Mark
SF News Israeli President Shimon Peres Visits Bay Area Today President of Israel Shimon Peres will be in the Bay Area starting today to tour several noted technology companies and a temple to boot. Starting today, Peres will visit IBM's research and development
SF News Teens' Photos Stolen From Facebook, Placed On Porn Site Over in Massachusetts, authorities are warning girls that someone is stealing their "fully-clothed" photos from Facebook and placing them on an x-rated site. The incident happened to 17 girls at Bay Path Regional
SF News Those Drunk Photos You Deleted From The Internet? Facebook Still Has Them Facebook just doesn't know how to get over you, it seems. Three years after tech sites called out the social network for keeping copies of deleted photos on their servers, Facebook is still
Arts & Entertainment Callers On NPR Whine About How Facebook Has Ruined Their Lives Michael Krasny took on the Facebook IPO today on Forum (a morning talk show on NPR's Bay Area affiliate), and not surprisingly, the call-in audience had A LOT to say about how Facebook
SF News Facebook IPO: Graffiti Artist David Choe Stands To Score $200 Million When Facebook stock publicly trades later this year, scads of people will turn into billionaires and millionaires seemingly overnight. One person who stands to gain an estimated $200 million is graffiti artist David
SF News It Happened: Facebook Files for IPO As expected, Facebook filed for its initial public offering today and the numbers are big: The securities filing places the social network's value somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion, according to the
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Facebook Update That Garnered A Record 1 Million Comments A Facebook post by Tracey Hodgson and Cathy Matthews won the Guinness Book of World Record for having received a whopping 1 million comments. It does not, however, make much sense. The update
SF News Facebook IPO Could Come Next Week; Investors To See Ridiculous Windfall Over the next few days, Facebook could file an IPO. Raising as much as $10 billion at a valuation anywhere between $75 billion to $100 billion, it stands to be "one of the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Like You Better on Facbeook' Maybe you've seen this already, but we hadn't, and it's dern catchy! The song is by Livia Scott and you can find it on iTunes here.
SF News Mission Rape Suspect's Facebook Posts Uptown Almanac brings to light several Facebook posts penned by alleged Mission rape suspect, Fred Dozier, 32. The most chilling part about Dozier's Facebook posts aren't his "Crime City" requests or his "2
SF News Mark Zuckerberg Mounts a Bison in Facebook HQ As part of his personal challenge to eat only the animals he kills, noted nouveau riche person Mark Zuckerberg has been eating a lot of bison burgers, apparently. Thanks to that newly enlightened
SF News Facebook, Your Cell Phone Would Like You Not To Kill Yourself A new mobile phone app and a new service/button on Facebook are trying to help the suicide prevention cause. The smartphone app, specifically geared toward soldiers and military vets, is called Guard
SF News Facebook's Swelling HQ Could Clog Highway 101 Traffic Here's another way Facebook will keep you from getting work done on a daily basis: according to a report released yesterday, Facebook's growing campus at 1 Hacker Way could pose a major traffic
SF News Facebook Has New Vanity Street Name: 1 Hacker Way In Silicon Valley, vanity street names by tech mammoths are as common as racial disparity, wasteland boredom, and Chevys. Apple has 1 Infinite Loop, Genentech has 1 DNA Way, and Sun Microsystem used
Arts & Entertainment Jonathan Nolan Is Awesomely Paranoid About Facebook Jonathan Nolan, who wrote the short story "Memento Mori" (which later his brother, Christopher, turned into Memento) and helped pen The Prestige and The Dark Knight, has created some of the greatest cinematic
SF News Video: Andy Samberg Spoofs Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook Conference Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, newly crowned one of the top 20 richest people in America, was joined on stage today by Berkeley native and Saturday Night Live player Andy Samberg during Thursday's f/
SF News Facebook Pays Hackers to Break into Facebook Two weeks after hacker group Anonymous threatened to "kill" Facebook for releasing private information of some of their 750 million users to the federal government, the social media monolith has taken to paying
SF News Facebook to Censor Inmates' Pages In an effort to become the most boring place on the world wide web -- or maybe it's just us? Since our friends post the most meh stuff now, we've resorted to following
SF News Mark Zuckerberg's Sister Quits Facebook One of Facebook's earliest employees, Randi Zuckerberg, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, resigned from the social networking company. Randi "is leaving her position as director of marketing at the Palo Alto-based website after
SF News Someone Please Get the Winklevoss Twins a PR Agent Perhaps because of their ongoing litigious efforts in a Massachusetts federal court, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss simply could not stay silent about some recent public remarks by former Harvard president Larry Summers in
SF News Google Plus Slowly Takes Off Tired of blocking followers who post relentless political campaign-related gibberish or blatant Gilt-esque advertising? We don't know about you, but we sure are. (Side note: if you're a campaign director who's hired a
SF News Facebook Video Chat Feature Unveiled Powered by Skype, Facebook announced a new video chat feature today. Which will be of interest to those of you who chat on Facebook, or to those of you who don't already use
SF News Copper Wire Pilfered from Future Facebook HQ At the future site of Facebook's new headquarters in Menlo Park, police are investigating some 1,000 pounds of missing copper wire. Like the mineral-hungry prospectors that made the Bay Area a playground