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Zuckerberg will not discuss the details of those offers. He says he does have an idea of the site??s value, but won’t say what it is. Typically, companies like TheFacebook meet multimillion dollar offers. According to the San Jose Mercury News—Silicon Valley’s newspaper of choice—Friendster passed on a $30 million buyout offer from Google in 2003. Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams—who would not confirm the $30 million figure—says the company had two million users at the time. Today, TheFacebook...
Some prominent figures have taken an aggressive stance on the question of Wikipedia’s trustworthyness. In the site??s defense stands a huge corps of writers in a variety of fields, including such weighty entities as the Michigan State Supreme Court (which cited Wikipedia for information about “positional aslphyxia” in a 2004 opinion). These people may not explicitly lend their credence to the project (though some certainly have), but they give it de facto support by including it on their works cited pages...
Some CCL members had reservations about the site??s instructions on how to play beirut, tap a keg, and unhook a bra. But Undergraduate Council Student Affairs Committee Chair Aaron D. Chadbourne ’05, a member of the CCL, said he expects the group to be recognized at the next meeting...
...January 2004, the University provost’s office ordered the party website, originally called harvardparties.com, to remove “Harvard” from its name because it was not an official student organization. The site??s creators altered the spelling of the name in order to meet the administration’s requirements...
Solimine said the site??s name came out of a day-long brainstorming session, when he suggested “Job’oozle,” an amalgam of the words “job” and “bamboozle,” but was promptly shot down. While such head-scratchers as Blue Kangaroo and Yellow Snow were also considered, Solimine repeatedly advocated for the name Job’oozle until...