Saturday, December 25, 2010

The Connector: How Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg rewired our world and changed the way we live: A short biography of TIME's 2010 Person of the Year

eWeek recently said this about Time Magazine's bestowing its "Person of the Year" honor to Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg:
Now that Mark Zuckerberg has been given the rare honor of being named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, perhaps it’s time to reflect on how this young man moved from creating a Website to help college students connect to building Facebook into a global social and cultural phenomenon. According to some analysts, Zuckerberg’s Facebook is accessed by one-tenth of the human population, a number that’s sure to grow. This is a signal achievement in human as well as computing history. But in addition to its influence on the lives of all those users, Facebook has insinuated itself into virtually every part of life and commerce. A quick look at Google News shows a range of separate stories about Facebook, from its integration with Bing to it use of facial recognition to tag photos. There are stories about the Time magazine story, of course, and about 1,500 other stories on this event.



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