New book out: Inside Facebook
Karel Baloun, an employee of popular social networking company FaceBook who left over the summer, has penned a book about the company.
Liz Gannes, of Gigaom, provides a review. She doesn’t recommend reading it, but provides the notable tidbits:
…recollections of [YouTube co-founder] Steve Chen deciding to leave a promising job at Facebook to take the risk of founding YouTube; an anecdote about CEO Mark Zuckerberg getting held up at gunpoint in East Palo Alto the same… Continue Reading
Roundup: Apple secrets, India hype, Cheney’s visit, VideoEgg, Zillow,
Here is a shotgun of the latest stuff in raging Silicon Valley, leading of course with video:
VideoEgg gets easier — VideoEgg, a site that lets you download software so you can post video on any site, has partnered to make the process easier at key sites. Users at Bebo, Dogster, Hi5, AOL, Current.TV and Tagged can post video content from mobile or other devices to those sites, and VideoEgg’s small browser plug-in that makes it easy… Continue Reading