IMDB The Social Network, le film sur Facebook qui effraie Mark Zuckerberg Six ans seulement après la naissance du réseau social Facebook, Hollywood s’empare du phénomène. Le réalisateur David Fincher est aux commandes d’un long-métrage, prévu pour l’automne, retraçant la création du site par une poignée d’étudiants de l’université américaine d’Harvard, en 2004. Imaginé dans un dortoir de campus, Facebook devrait fêter cette semaine ses 500 millions de membres. Scénario tiré du roman controversé sur Mark Zuckerberg The Social Network, une bonne publicité pour le site et son fondateur ? A l’heure des controverses sur sa politique de confidentialité, des suicides virtuels ou des appels à la désinscription massive, Facebook se serait bien passé du projet, qui risque de plomber un peu plus sa réputation. La bande-annonce, mise en ligne jeudi dernier, donne le ton (voir la vidéo). Taquin, le site BestWeekEver a déjà mis en ligne une parodie de la bande annonce, The Other Social Network, qui porte sur MySpace, le concurrent faiblard de Facebook.
Exclusive: Trent Reznor on "The Social Network" and the Evolving Music Biz [INTERVIEW] Back when it was first announced that rocker Trent Reznor would be scoring David Fincher's The Social Network, we thought it was a match made in pop culture heaven — a movie about the dark side of the social networking biz, scored by a man who has plumbed the depths of social media, while also wrestling with its implications? Sign us up. Well, we got an aural glimpse at the soundtrack the other week after Reznor, along with his record company, The Null Corporation, and Sony’s Madison Gate Records announced the disc on Null Co's website and gave fans a five-song sneak peek. Now we're itching to see how music and celluloid go together. As the premiere of the highly anticipated film rapidly approaches, we decided to talk with Reznor about the experience of scoring a movie in its entirety, the state of the music industry, and, of course, social media on the whole. Check out our interview with the rocker below. It's not about how the kid in the dorm room that likes to listen to music.
Skyrock.com Taboola Pioneers "Text to Video" for Bloomberg, CNN and Revision3 Taboola, the video recommendation engine which is used by publishers to provide "related" or "recommended" videos at the end of clips, has introduced a system for publishers to offer up recommended video thumbnails at around text articles. For the new service, the company spiders text stories and provides thumbnails of videos adjacent or below the article. Videos are selected by both topic and through individual interest. (Taboola has dropped around 1 billion cookies.) The company has been providing this new solution to Bloomberg.com, CNN.com the NYTimes.com and most recently signed up Revision3. Earlier this month, we spoke with Taboola's Liz Hughes who heads sales and marketing for the New York/Tel Aviv based start-up. She says that the company's tools are driving dramatically higher video consumption for many of its publishers. Andy Plesser Disclaimer — Taboola is a sponsor of Beet.TV
"The Social Network" Movie is Hard on Facebook CEO It’s hard to feel sorry for a billionaire. But here I am, feeling bad for Mark Zuckerberg. If you see the “The Social Network” you’re probably going to feel bad for him, too. I saw a screening of the movie last week, and can report back that it’s just as rough on the Facebook CEO as his people feared it would be. Not because of scandalous scenes involving sex and drugs–there aren’t many of those, and they’re quite tame*. At the end of the movie, there’s a suggestion that Zuckerberg may not actually be a jerk–he may just be someone who acts like one. But I liked the movie a lot–I’ll see it again once it comes out in October. The best hope for Zuckerberg and his team is that the wider audience for this one could be relatively small. So that may be a hard sell for a really big audience, at least at first.
Social Network : Nine Inch Nails à la musique 03 juil 2010 Par Anthony Garetti C'est sur le site internet du groupe de rock "industriel" Nine Inch Nails que Trent Reznor (en fait seul membre du groupe) et Atticus Ross (son ingénieur du son) vont composer la musique de Social network, prochain film de David Fincher sur la création du célébre réseau social Facebook. C'est en lisant le scénario écrit par Aaron Sorkin que Trent Reznor a accepté de créer la musique du film. Selon lui, le film (ou du moins son scénario) serait "un bon putain de film. Ce n'est pas la première fois que Reznor compose de la musique de film : il avait déjà participé, entre autres, aux BO de Lost highway et Tueurs nés, et aussi à la bande-son du jeu vidéo Quake. The social network doit sortir en octobre prochain.
Maintained Relationships on Facebook | overstated This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Since there have been a number of questions throughout the monkeysphere, we thought we would take the opportunity to describe our approach, the data, and our analysis. We were asked a simple question: is Facebook increasing the size of people’s personal networks? This is a particularly difficult question to answer, so as a first attempt we looked into the types of relationships people do maintain, and the relative size of these groups. Before discussing the data, let us first set the context. People you know Many people are asking questions about the number of friends they have on Facebook. If you’ve read the Tipping Point, you may remember a study Gladwell described where people were asked to identify whether or not they knew people with names from a long list culled from a phone book. Communication network Maintained Relationships Systemic Effects
I <3 SOCIAL MEDIA » Blog Archive » FUN STUFF: If websites were pets… Posted by Marta Majewska | Posted in FUN STUFF | Posted on 01-09-2010 Tags: Bing, CollegeHumor, Facebook, Google, MySpace, YouTube haha funny and so true: Via CollegeHumor 6 Tweets Additional comments powered by BackType
Sex! Hackers! Embellishment! The Inside Story of the Facebook Movie | Magazine Computer guys have never had a this-is-our-moment movie that makes a splashy myth out of quotidian reality—where everyone looks sexy-tormented in the bargain.Illustration: Martin Ansin Mark Zuckerberg is many things, not least a student of the classics. He reads Latin and ancient Greek, and his personal motto is said to be Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, or, loosely translated, “Maybe one day we’ll look back on all this shit and laugh.” Lately, though, he’s probably meditating on another Latin phrase: annus horribilis. Because it’s been one lousy year for the 26-year-old CEO, despite (and also because of) the success of his dormitory-born company, Facebook, aka the most trafficked social-networking site on earth. He might as well get used to it. In early October, with much fanfare and an eye on the Oscars, Sony Pictures is releasing The Social Network, its liberally dramatized, completely unauthorized, and (its makers hasten to add) thoroughly researched Facebook origin story.