Word: zuckerberg
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Just over a month after two Harvard alums competed in the Miss America Pageant, a website created by Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06 gave students a chance to rate their peers using ID photos taken from online House facebooks...
...Were we let in for our looks? No. Will we be judged on them? Yes,” proclaimed the site, which Zuckerberg has now taken offline...
...Zuckerberg, a computer science concentratror, said he created the site—www.facemash.com—by hacking into House online facebooks and compiling ID photos onto his website, allowing viewers to vote for the “hotter” of two randomly chosen photos or rate the looks of students in a particular House against fellow-residents...
...Sunday night, outrage from individuals and student groups led Zuckerberg, who said he never expected such widespread publicity, to shut down the site for good...
Though these days Zuckerberg has other projects on his “to do” list, the sophomore anticipates Synapse’s future success. He says he and D’Angelo are considering making Synapse open source, which, for the technologically illiterate, means that downloaders can see the program’s code and improve upon it. It is currently available for free download on the website. Zuckerberg’s software populism goes beyond simply turning down big-money corporate offers. “It’s important to us that people are able...