The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world / David Kirkpatrick.
By: Kirkpatrick, David
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TextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-354) and index.Description: 372 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781439102114 (hc.); 1439102112 (hc.).Subject(s): Facebook (Firm) | Internet industry -- United States | Online social networks -- HistoryDDC classification: 338.7/61006754 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 338.761006754 K636 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003711967 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-354) and index.
Prologue: the Facebook effect -- The beginning -- Palo Alto -- Social networking and the Internet -- Fall 2004 -- Investors -- Becoming a company -- Fall 2005 -- The CEO -- 2006 -- Privacy -- The platform -- $15 billion -- Making money -- Facebook and the world -- Changing our institutions -- The evolution of Facebook -- The future.
There's never been a Web site like Facebook: more than 350 million people have accounts, and if the growth rate continues, by 2013 every Internet user worldwide will have his or her own page. Written with the full cooperation of founder, Mark Zuckerberg, the book follows the company from its genesis in a Harvard dorm room through its successes over Friendster and MySpace, the expansion of the user base and Zuckerberg's refusal to sell. The author discusses the social implications of the site, from the changing notions of privacy to why and how people use Facebook.
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