His own father bought him a computer since he was eight years old. While in Phillips Exeter Academy's high school, he and his partner, D'Angelo, create plug-ins for the Winamp MP3 player. Plug-in is a computer program that can interact with a host application such as a web browser or email for a particular purpose. Zuckerberg and D'Angelo create plug-ins to gather people's likes on different types of songs and then make their playlists to their liking.
They send the program to companies including AOL (American Online) and Microsoft. In the last year at Phillips he was recruited by Microsoft and AOL for a project. When they go to college they both have to separate. D'Angelo enters Caltech while Zuckerberg enters Harvard.
Cikal Bakal Founding FacebookIt was at Harvard that Zuckerberg found the idea of creating an online student directory book because his university did not distribute a face book to new students as a place of friendship between them. But whenever he volunteered to make the directory, Harvard refused. "They say they have a reason not to collect this (student) information," Zuckerberg said later.
Although rejected he is always looking for ways to make it happen. "I want to show that it can be done," he continued about his insistence on creating the directory. His first project was CourseMatch (www.coursematch.com) which allowed his classmates to communicate with each other on the website. One night in her sophomore year at Harvard, Zuckerberg sabotaged Harvard student data and put it into a website he created called Facemash. Several photographs of his fellow students were there. Do not forget he put a sentence that asks visitors to determine which of these photos are the most "hot".
The fishing rod hit. Within four hours since he launched the webiste it was recorded 450 people visited Facemash and as many as 22,000 photos they open. Harvard parties know it and the internet connection was disconnected. Zuckerberg was charged for stealing data. This curly haired boy also apologized to his colleagues who photographed his entrance at Facemash. But he did not regret his actions. "I think such information should be available online," he said.
Instead of deterrent he even create a new website with the name up (www.thefacebook.com). This website he launched in February 2004. Facebook is a refinement of Facemash. The goal remains as a meeting place for fellow Harvard students. In the explanation on his website now mentioned that Facebook is a social tool to help people communicate more efficiently with colleagues, family, or coworkers.
Facebook offers easy navigation for its users. Each account owner has space to display photos, friends, network, and do other things like can send messages and so forth.
The number of applications that can be used by its members make Facebook loved by many people. It is said that up to now already more than 20,000 applications put into Facebook that can be used its members. At least 140 new apps are added to Facebook each day and 95% of Facebook account owners have used at least one app.
Inclusion of many of these applications make up different from previous social networking websites like MySpace. Then people flocked to visit the website and sign up so its members. Within two weeks of launch, half the Harvard students already have accounts on Facebook. Apparently not only interested Harvard students, some campuses around Harvard was asked to be included in the Facebook network.
This makes Zuckerberg overwhelmed. He then asked the help of two friends to participate in developing Facebook. Within four months of Facebook can crawl 30 campuses. Until the end of 2004 the number of Facebook users has reached one million.
Facebook users continue to increase. In fact there are some people who are no longer a student or still in school want to join. This high pressure made Zuckerberg and his friends decide to open up a network for high school students (here high school) in September 2005. Soon they also opened a network of office workers. This incredible bustle makes Zuckerberg must decide out of Harvard.
"What I want is already in hand. I do not want to have a diploma then work. In my opinion, the job is only for the weak - Mark Zuckerberg"
Zuckerberg and his friends later developed Facebook even further. In September 2006 Facebook opened registration for a general network on condition that it has email. Since then the number of Facebook members shot.
Currently the number of active members reaches 70 million worldwide. The network he collected reached six million networks (friendship groups) covering 55,000 networks based on demographics, work, school, collegial, and so forth. Every day there are 14 million photos uploaded (inserted into Facebook). And in terms of the amount of traffic accessing Facebook became the 6th most active website in the world and became the second largest social networking website camScore version.
Selling Facebook Shares and Becoming The Richest Youth In The WorldThe number of Facebook members that millions of people into a lucrative gold mine. Zuckerberg and his friends also grabbed a great business opportunity. Therefore when the number of users exceeded one million they took Accel Partners, a venture capital company, to finance its development. The invested capital is US $ 12.7 million. This is the second investment that goes to Facebook after the previous (June 2004) earn and from PayPal founder of US $ 500,000.
Mark Zuckerberg and FacebookThe first improvement with additional capital is to change its domain from www. thefacebook. corn became www.facebook.com in August 2005. After that the membership reach expanded to international. Until December 2005 the number of members has reached 5.5 million.
Although the number of users was increased sharply in 2005 mentioned Facebook suffered losses up to US $ 3.63 million. Facebook then get funding of US $ 25 million from Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners. The funds are used to launch its mobile version.
In September 2007 Microsoft approached and offered to buy 5%
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