फेसबुक

४-५ दिवसांपूर्वी "सोशल नेटवर्क" मूव्ही पाहत होतो. खुप भारी मूव्ही आहे. तुम्ही सर्वांनी एकदातरी पहावा. मार्क झुकेरबर्ग हा फेसबुकचा को-फाउण्डर आहे. जानेवारी २००४ ला त्याने फेसबुकचा कोड लिहायला घेतला आणि ४ फेब्रुवारी २००४ ला त्याने "द फेसबुक" लौंच केल. ह्या व्यक्तीने एवढ्या लहान वयात जे काही करून दाखवल आहे ते काबिलेतारीफ आहे. अंतरजालावर मी फेसबुकचा शोध घेतला. विकिपीडियावर मला फेसबुक आणि मार्क झुकेरबर्ग ह्यांची इत्थंभूत माहिती मिळाली. त्यातले काही संदर्भ मी इथे जोडले आहेत. 

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According to The New York Times, Facebook has a net worth of $50 billion.

Facebook is a social network service and website launched in February 2004 that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.

As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users.

Facebook allows anyone who declares themselves to be at least 13 years old to become a registered user of the website.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (Co-founding Facebook in 2004) (source : google.com)

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University.

Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade "best-of" list, saying, "How on earth did we stalk our exes, remember our co-workers' birthdays, bug our friends, and play a rousing game of Scrabulous before Facebook?"


Quantcast estimates Facebook has 135.1 million monthly unique U.S. visitors in October 2010.

According to Social Media Today as of April 2010, it is estimated that 41.6% of the U.S. population has a Facebook account.

FACEMASH

Mark Zuckerberg wrote Facemash, the predecessor to Facebook, on October 28, 2003, while attending Harvard as a sophomore.

According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not, and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person".

That night, Zuckerberg made the following blog entries :

I'm a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it's not even 10 p.m. and it's a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland [dorm] facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.
—9:48 pm

Yea, it's on. I'm not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole thing (you can't really ever be sure with farm animals...), but I like the idea of comparing two people together.

—11:09 pm


Let the hacking begin.
—12:58 am

To accomplish this, Zuckerberg hacked into the protected areas of Harvard's computer network and copied the houses' private dormitory ID images.

Facemash attracted 450 visitors and 22,000 photo-views in its first four hours online.

Zuckerberg was charged by the administration with breach of security, violating copyrights, and violating individual privacy, and faced expulsion, but ultimately the charges were dropped.

THEFACEBOOK

source : google.com

In January 2004, the following semester, Zuckerberg began writing code for a new website.

He was inspired, he said, by an editorial in The Harvard Crimson about the Facemash incident. "It is clear that the technology needed to create a centralized Website is readily available," the paper observed. "The benefits are many."

On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched "Thefacebook", originally located at thefacebook.com.


Mark Elliot Zuckerberg


Born on May 14, 1984 (age 26)

White Plains, New York

Harvard College (dropped out in 2004)

CEO/President of Facebook

(24% shareholder in 2010)

Co-founding Facebook in 2004;

becoming world's youngest billionaire as of 2008

Net worth US$12.5 billion (2011)

Awarded Time Person of the Year 2010

"Everyone’s been talking a lot about a universal face book within Harvard," Zuckerberg told The Harvard Crimson. "I think it’s kind of silly that it would take the University a couple of years to get around to it. I can do it better than they can, and I can do it in a week."

Just six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra, accused Zuckerberg of intentionally misleading them into believing he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com, while he was instead using their ideas to build a competing product.

The three complained to the Harvard Crimson and the newspaper began an investigation. Zuckerberg used his site, TheFacebook.com, to look up members of the site who identified themselves as members of the Crimson.

Then he examined a log of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com. In the cases in which they had entered failed logins, Mark tried to use them to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts.

He successfully accessed two of them. The three later filed a lawsuit against Zuckerberg, later settling.


Membership was initially restricted to students of Harvard College, and within the first month, more than half the undergraduate population at Harvard was registered on the service.

Eduardo Saverin (business aspects)

Dustin Moskovitz (programmer)

Andrew McCollum (graphic artist)

and Chris Hughes soon joined Zuckerberg to help promote the website.

In March 2004, Facebook expanded to Stanford, Columbia, and Yale. This expansion continued when it opened to all Ivy League and Boston area schools, and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States.

Facebook incorporated in the summer of 2004 and the entrepreneur Sean Parker, who had been informally advising Zuckerberg, became the company's president.

In June 2004, Facebook moved its base of operations to Palo Alto, California. The company dropped "The" from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000.

FACEBOOK

On October 1 2005, Facebook expanded to twenty-one universities in the United Kingdom.

Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006, to everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail address.

In October 2008, Facebook announced that it was to set up its international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Recently, Facebook.com was the top social network across eight individual markets in the Southeast Asia/Oceania region : 

Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Vietnam

while other brands commanded the top positions in certain markets, including

Google-owned Orkut in India and Brazil

Mixi.jp in Japan

RenRen in China (where Facebook is currently inaccessible)

CyWorld in South Korea

Yahoo!’s Wretch.cc in Taiwan

COMPANY SHARE

Facebook has over 1,700 employees, and offices in 12 countries.

Regarding Facebook ownership :

Mark Zuckerberg owns 24% of the company

Accel Partners owns 10%

Digital Sky Technologies owns 10%

Dustin Moskovitz owns 6%

Eduardo Saverin owns 5%

Sean Parker owns 4%

Peter Thiel owns 3%

Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners own between 1 to 2% each

Microsoft owns 1.3%

Li Ka-shing owns 0.75%

Interpublic Group owns less than 0.5%

a small group of current and former employees and celebrities own less than 1% each

the remaining 30% or so are owned by employees

Adam D'Angelo, chief technology officer and friend of Zuckerberg, resigned in May 2008. Reports claimed that he and Zuckerberg began quarreling, and that he was no longer interested in partial ownership of the company.

On November 15, 2010, Facebook announced it had acquired FB.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation for an undisclosed amount.

On January 11, 2011, the Farm Bureau disclosed 8.5 million in "domain sales income", making the acquisition of FB.com one of the ten highest domain sales in history.

CRITICISM

Facebook has been met with controversies.

It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, Iran, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Syria, and Bangladesh on different bases.

It has also been banned at many workplaces to prevent the wasting of employees' time.

The privacy of Facebook users has also been an issue, and the safety of user accounts has been compromised several times.

Facebook has settled a lawsuit regarding claims over source code and intellectual property.

At the All Things Digital conference in June 2010, Zuckerberg was asked if he expected to remain CEO if the company went public.

Zuckerberg said he did, adding that he doesn't "think about going public ... much."

He said he did not have a date in mind for a potential IPO.


स्त्रोत (source) : विकिपीडिया, गूगल.


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