The Social Network

I called a friend of mine and asked him to get me “The Social Network” movie. “For what?” he asked. “I just need it –no questions asked” I replied. The next day I had a CD waiting on my desk with a note saying “Real friends’ are not found on Facebook”

The movie starts in rapid conversation between Mark Zuckerberg and a girl he so madly wants to be wit h- Erica. She become his ex right after this conversation. Throughout the growth of Facebook Mark is obsessed with her and it seems like he just cant let go. This breaks up set up a chain of events that somehow lead to Facebook. It starts by Mark Zuckerberg building a "FaceMash" page that spreads so rapidly, it crashed Harverd University server with over 22,000 people connecting to the system at the same time. Then, an imaginary line is drawn next to the original story. Mark Zuckerberg life is now in Harvard, but the other line is in the future. The future takes place in a law office where depositions are been taken in two lawsuits- One by his friend and the co-founder of Facebook and a second lawsuit by three guys that claim he stole the idea. Back to Harvard- After the creation of "FaceMash" Mark is punished with six months of academic probation. Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, of Harvard's rowing team, and Divya Narendra are looking for a web programmer to establish a website (very simillar to Facebook) called Harvard Connection. But Mark takes the idea and improves it to what’s going to be called Thefacebook. His friend Eduardo was invited to be a part of this new idea for 35% equity. Cameron Winklevoss , Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra think that Mark stole their idea while at the same time stalling on their website. In the meantime Thefacebook is taking off outside of Harvard to other schools. The twins from Harvard arrange a meeting with Harvard President asking him to take action against Mark because he broke the ethic code of Harvard. He dismisses them and see no real ground for disciplinary action. Eduardo and Mark arrange a meeting with Napster founder Sean Parker. They all meet in a restaurant for a drinks and dinner. At the end of the dinner Parker picks up the bill and leave, not before he suggests that they drop "The" from Thefacebook to make it “cleaner”. He calls it "Facebook". He also suggests they should move to California “ where everything happens”. Mark takes his advise and moves the company's operation to Palo Alto, after Eduardo put another $18,000 in an account towards the company expanses. Eduardo remains in New York looking for advertising investments. One day Eduardo comes for a visit from New York, he finds that Parker is living at the house and making business decisions for Facebook. He is furious. After an argument with Mark, Eduardo freezes the company's bank account and returns to New York. When he gets back, he receives a phone call from Mark telling him they have secured money from an angel investor($500,000). Mark asks him to come back which he agrees to. Eduardo comes back and signs some documents for the new angel investor. He later discovered the deal he signed allows them to dilute his share of the company from thirty-four percent to three hundredths of a percent, while maintaining the ownership percentage of all other parties. He confronts Mark (his best friend) and announces his intention to sue him saying “you better get lawyer up”. The movie ends with mark offering an intern to grab something to eat. She refuses. Later he asks her if he is an asshole. She replies by saying “you are not an asshole, but you are trying very hard to be one.” She then leaves the room while Mark sends a friend request to his former girlfriend Erica on Facebook, and refreshing the page every few seconds waiting for approval”. A MUST SEE !

Thank you –my friend

The Next New Thing

My sugesstion for a new app that can be used for both on phones and on buildings.
The app will consisted of address bar. When insert and address it can show the user historical information about the building. This app can also be used near landmark building. A hologram projector can project a image of an host that will give details about the building. It can also suggests changes that were made through out history.
This application will be very attractive to visitors from all over the world. It can first be tested in most visited citys such as NYC, London, France. The model is relatively simple and can be extended to monument attraction or other popular sites.

Our Class Wiki - So Far

In the wiki Marketing and Advertising using New Media I added two sections:Scholarly Articles and New Media In Business- Real Stories. Scholarly Articles tried to give its viewer a pic to some of the research that is done behind the scene of marketing and new media. It also offered a retrospect to what was the traditional way of marketing before new media came along. At last it suggested some real insight to the relationship within marketing and the aspect of gaining competitive advantage through customer satisfaction and customer retention. The second addition New Media In Business- Real Stories tried to follow up on new usage of new media as well as old usage that are been turn around (i.e Twitter).
In our wiki class section I added my bio, pictures a link to my blog and Twitter as well as my term project focused- The Effects of New Media Websites On Social Interaction .