Showing posts with label Mark Zuckerberg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Zuckerberg. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

...Men

A recent survery conducted by AskMen.com asked 70,000 men from the United States, Canada, England, and Australia. When asked which female public figure they were most tired of hearing about, the men were presented with the following choices, and the results were as follows:

29% Lady Gaga
25% Sarah Palin
17% Kim Kardashian
15% Lindsay Lohan
3% Kate Middleton
3% Pippa Middleton
8% None of the above

When asked the same question about males they were most sick of seeing in the spotlight, the results were as follows:

47% Justin Bieber
20% Charlie Sheen
12% Barack Obama
8% Donald Trump
4% Prince William
3% Mark Zuckerberg
0% Arnold Schwarzenegger
6% None of the above

I will have to agree withthese men, for the most part. Though personally I am more tired of hearign about Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber overall, they got the jist of everything correct. I am going to have to give Men a Digit Up.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

...Time Magazine

So Mark Zuckerberg, creator of Facebook, was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year. I do not know if he deserved it and apparently I am not alone. Some thin that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should have gotten the title. I must remind people that it is a magazine and no actual money or prize is awarded. I do wonder though if Mark is just another Internet billionaire fad who has reached his peak. Does anyone remember Myspace? Yes it was once the bee's knees, huge and global, everyone had it, it was mentioned in songs and was a pop culture phenomenon. Now it is a struggling old beast that no one really cares about anymore. What else has he done? He had a movie made about him. Gave money away on Oprah. Decide to donate at least half of his money to charity when he dies. Now much to me. I do think this was premature because in 3 years or less no one will care about Facebook. The people who are using it now are already over it. I am giving Time Magazine a Digit Down. Better luck next year.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

...Facebook

With the highly anticipated movie coming out this Friday, The Social Network, and with the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, giving $100 million to the Newark school area last week on Oprah, a man who has an estimated net worth of $6.9 billion, a new question is being raised, how much is Facebook worth? A couple of years ago Mark's net worth was $1.5 billion and Microsoft estimated that Facebook was worth about $15 billion. Now that employees are selling shares of the company to others on the secondary market, it is estimated that the company may be worth up to $76 a share or $33 billion. This seems a little extreme to me, but it could be possible. Technically Mark Zuckrberg is paper rich, cash poor. The company does not have to go public until more than 500 people have shares of the company, that is what happened to Google, which is worth $529.76 a share. Eventually if not sold Facebook may go public. There is still a chance that a lot of very wealthy private investors and companies will continue to pour money into Facebook until they own mostly all of it. Since the company is not public they do not have to disclose finance records, so no one really knows how much it is worth, everything out is just estimates based on current activity. I could imagine this being one big bust in a few more years. I am giving Facebook a Digit Up because I love the mystery of it all and in the end "the Facebook" will win and Mark Zuckerberg will go home with more than a few pennies to rub together.