Roundup: Facebook movie casting, Yahoo shuts down Mash, and more

August 28, 2008 | Eric Eldon | Comments |

The Facebook Movie has a very unofficial casting call — Yesterday, top Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin let it be known he was working on a movie about the high-flying social network. Here’s a (rather entertaining) formulation of which actor might play which geek role. Yes, Michael Cera (a co-star in Juno) would be Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. [Michael Cera image via Radar Online.]

Linux rises to 13.4 percent of the server market — CNET’s Matt Asay examines the market share of open-source software Linux versus competitors like Windows.

Document-sharing site Scribd gets a redesign — The site gets more than half its traffic from search engines, according to Techcrunch. So the redesign includes a more prominent search box, in an effort to make it more of a destination site.


Bloomberg publishes Steve Jobs obituary by mistake — We didn’t give this story more attention because it was a sad editorial accident, followed by a lot of tasteless editorializing.

Yahoo shuts down social network Mash — It’ll be gone on September 29th.

IPhone factory cameo photo a “beautiful mistake” — At an iPhone factory on the other side of the Pacific, this picture was taken on an iPhone that went to a consumer — it has become an internet sensation. A factory spokesperson responded by calling it a “beautiful mistake. [Said photo via Macrumors.]

There’s no student version in the works for digital book-reading device Kindle – The rumor had gone far and wide in the blogosphere, but Kindle creator Amazon says there will be no new version of Kindle this year. Maybe next year.

Super Rewards: A company that makes money for top Facebook app games — We’ve covered how Mob Wars is making possibly a million dollars a month. Inside Facebook has a look a big monetization strategy — using cost-per-action incentive ads from a company called Super Rewards.

McCain uses Google to attack Obama — Tis the season for political attacks on the internet. Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign has purchased Google search ads that appear prominently next to searches such as “Joe Biden” — the Democratic vice presidential nominee. The Wall Street Journal has more.

Gory comic apps apparently not welcome on the Apple App Store — Apple has already put one, Murderdrome, down for the count.

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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.

  • Good God, do you people sleep? Also, can you set up a tag for roundups? It'd be nice to go through these posts after I've been offline for a week. Thanks!
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    In any case, who would be the antagonist, and what would be the climax?
  • David Gerard
    I've made the poster for the Facebook movie.