Facebook Maker

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in the area called Dobbs Ferry , Westchester County , New York.Anak of Edward and Karen Zuckerberg . He was the second of four children of parents dentist couple - psychiatrist . Since childhood, Zuckerberg likes tinkering with computers , computer programs and try to learn to make . His father bought him a computer since he was eight years old . While in high school Phillips Exeter Academy , he and his partner , D' Angelo , create plug - ins for Winamp MP3 player . Plug -in is a computer program that interacts with a host application such as a web browser or email for a particular purpose . Zuckerberg and D' Angelo makes a plug -in to gather the favorite against various types of songs and then create playlists his suit their tastes . They send it to the program to various companies including AOL ( America Online ) and Microsoft . In his last year at Phillips he was recruited by Microsoft and AOL for a project . When the school went on to college the two should be separated . D' Angelo entered Caltech while Zuckerberg entered Harvard . In this Harvard Zuckerberg found the idea of ​​making books online student directory because the university did not share face book ( a book containing photos of students and students in the university 's identity ) to the new students as a place of friendship between them . But every time he volunteered to make the directory , Harvard rejected . "They said they had no reason not to collect information ( student ) ," said Zuckerberg then . Although he rejected always looking for ways to make it happen . " I wanted to show that it can be done , " he said about his stubborn refusal to make the directory . His first project was CourseMatch ( www.coursematch.com ) which allows classmates to communicate with each other on the website . One night in his second year at Harvard , Harvard students Zuckerberg sabotage of data and put it into a website he created called Facemash . A number of photos posted there fellow student . Do not forget he put a sentence that asks visitors to determine which of these pictures are the most "hot " . Inducement hit . Within four hours since he launched the webiste carrying 450 people and as many as 22,000 visit Facemash their photos open . Harvard parties know it and the internet connection was disconnected . Sued Zuckerberg for stealing the data . The curly -haired youngster apologized to colleagues whose picture entered in Facemash . But he did not regret their actions it . " I think such information should be available ( online ) , " he said . Rather than give up he instead made ​​a new website by the name of Facebook ( www.thefacebook.com ) . This website he launched in February 2004 . Facebook is a refinement of Facemash . The goal remains as a place of meeting fellow Harvard students . In explanation on his website today mentioned that Facebook is a social tool to help people communicate more efficiently with colleagues , family , or coworkers . Facebook offers easy navigation for users . Each account holder has space to display his picture , his friends , network , and do other things like being able to send messages and so forth . The number of applications that can be used by the members making up loved by many people . It is said that until now has over 20,000 Facebook applications put in that can be used by members . At least 140 new applications added to Facebook every day and 95 % owner of Facebook accounts have used at least one application . Investments in many of these applications makes Facebook different from previous social networking websites such as MySpace . And people flocked to visit the website and sign up to be members . Within two weeks after launch , half of Harvard students already have an account on Facebook . In fact not only Harvard students who are interested , a few campuses around Harvard had asked be included in the Facebook network . It makes Zuckerberg overwhelmed . He then requested the help of two friends to participate in developing Facebook . Within four months Facebook has been able to encompass 30 campuses . By the end of 2004 the number of Facebook users has reached one million . Facebook users continues to increase . In fact there are a number of people who no longer work as a student or are still in school wants to join . The high insistence makes Zuckerberg and his friends decided to open a Facebook network for high school students ( here SMU ) in September 2005 . Soon they also open networking office workers . This incredible busyness makes Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to decide . " What I want is already in hand . I do not want to have a diploma later work . According to me , the work is only for people who are weak , " he told the magazine Current. Zuckerberg and his friends then develop up even further . In September 2006 Facebook opened registration to a common network with the requirement to have an email . Since then the number of Facebook members bolted . When this number reaches 70 million active members worldwide . Dihimpunnya networks reach six million network ( group of friends ) covers 55,000 networks based on demographics , work , school , collegial , and so on . Every day there are 14 million photos are uploaded ( put up) . And in terms of the amount of traffic access of Facebook being a website the 6th most active in the world and become the second largest social networking website camScore version . So Rich Selling Shares Number of Facebook members that millions of people it became a lucrative gold mine . Zuckerberg and his friends also captures a great business opportunity . Therefore, when the number of users exceeded one million they took Accel Partners, a venture capital firm , to finance its development . Invested capital is U.S. $ 12.7 million . This is the second investment coming to Facebook after the previous ( June 2004 ) obtain from the founder of PayPal and U.S. $ 500,000 . Settling first with the additional capital is to replace his domain from www . Thefacebook . www.facebook.com corn into in August 2005 . Having expanded into the international reach of its membership . As of December 2005 the number of members has reached 5.5 million . Although the number of users increase sharply in 2005 mentioned Facebook suffered losses of up to U.S. $ 3.63 million . Facebook then get a funding of U.S. $ 25 million from Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital Partners . The funds were used to launch its mobile version . In September 2007 Microsoft approaches and offered to buy 5 % stake worth about U.S. $ 300 million to U.S. $ 500 million . If it is approved then the value of Facebook capitalization reached U.S. $ 6 billion to U.S. $ 10 billion, or around Rp 54 trillion to Rp 90 trillion . However, Microsoft has finally announced just bought a 1.6 % stake in Facebook with a value of U.S. $ 240 million in October 2007 . Transaction shows Facebook capitalization was higher at around U.S. $ 15 billion ( approximately U.S. $ 135 billion ) . After that surrounded the bid amount Facebook . Li Ka - shing participate menginvestasinya touted around U.S. $ 60 million in November 2007 . Then there is news that says Viacom , Yahoo , Google , etc. also make a bid to buy Facebook . So far Zackerberg said Facebook will not be sold . Facebook made ​​a business boom Zackerberg menampuk tremendous wealth . Forbes magazine said Zackerberg own wealth reached U.S. $ 1.5 billion , or about Rp 13.5 trillion . Let alone for Zackerberg age children , for adults treasure as it certainly was an unusually large amount . So naturally, if the magazine was crowned as ' The Youngest Self-made ' billionaire on the planet . Zackerberg achievements not really smooth . A number of cases he get in connection with Facebook . Including from colleagues at Harvard who said Facebook design is actually a clone of ConnectU . However Zackerberg budge that Facebook is the result of his work . Although ConnectU lost the first trial , the company recently filed a petition in March 2008 . Controversy also come from countries like Myanmar , Bhutan , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Iran and so on which mentions that Facebook promotes attacks on government authority so that access to Facebook in the state is closed . Amid some controversy , the name of Facebook and Mark Zackerberg still loved by many people . Zackerberg own popularity in the middle of his name and the amount of wealth he has, he remains modest . He still lives in a rented apartment and her room is only available in a table and chairs . Beds were placed on the floor . When it comes to his office in Palo Alto , Zackerberg often on foot or riding a bicycle . Not appear to be a millionaire ( in U.S. $ dollars , of course ) or a billionaire ( in dollars ) . Forbes lists him as the youngest billionaire , self-made and not because of inheritance , ever recorded in history . Her net worth is approximately one and a half billion U.S. dollars . Early in 2009 Mark Zuckerberg was awarded the Young Global Leaders . Mark Zuckerberg age 24 years , but he could produce 1.5 billion U.S. dollars . The success of male founders of Facebook , one of the leading social networking site in the world , this makes it perched in the ranks of the 400 richest people in America according to Forbes . Not only that , in the ranks he was also crowned as the most affluent young people .