[朱克伯格会否成为“盖茨第二”？] 扎克伯格前女友eric

　　翻译：王冰清 　　 　　It’s not just for arranging dates. And it’s not just another social network. Facebook offers sophisticated tools for maintaining social relationships.
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　　它不仅仅用于安排日程，也有别于其它社交网站。‘脸谱’提供了完善的功能，让人们保持社交联系。
　　―《财富》杂志
　　
　　At 23, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard dropout, is being 1)labeled as the next Bill Gates. Mark Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook, a 2)networking tool for college students that has become very popular. Students use the Facebook Web tool to meet people, reconnect with old friends and arrange events. The company just 3)redesigned its website and received 4)venture capital.
　　Zuckerberg is a 5)strategic thinker. Listening to him talk, it becomes 6)apparent that the company he co-founded is a deeply considered 7)enterprise. It’s also more important than most 8)observers realize. That’s not just because it has already 9)amassed 13 million members. Facebook is now the top-ranking website for the hard-to-reach college 10)demographic: The 18-to-24-year-old future ?and in some cases current ?spenders.
　　
　　How did Facebook get started?
　　
　　Facebook was founded as Thefacebook in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskovitz at Harvard College. The website spread across the Harvard campus and within a few weeks, over half the 11)undergraduate population had 12)registered. The website then expanded to allow students from Columbia University, Standford University, and then other Ivy League colleges, and then UC Berkeley to register. It became something of a network 13)phenomenon, spreading rapidly to other schools, despite some competition from similar, local websites. Now Facebook is on almost every college campus in America. It has become the seventh busiest website on the Internet and with 13 million users is the second biggest social network in America. More than that, it has also become popular on British campuses, partly because it allows users to 14)ensure that only people from their own university or place of work are put in touch.
　　“When I made Facebook three years ago my goal was to help people understand what was going on in their world a little better. I wanted to create an environment where people could share whatever information they wanted, but also have control over whom they shared that information with. I think a lot of the success we’ve seen is because of these basic 15)principles,”says Zuckerberg in his open letter.
　　
　　Is Facebook worth a billion dollars?
　　
　　As a member of the Google generation, the young-looking Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned with a 16)vision for changing the world. He describes what he calls Facebook’s “mission.”
　　“A lot of companies get grouped as social networking,”says Zuckerberg. “Lots are dating sites, or media sites or sites for community. But our mission is helping people understand the world around them. We’re not trying to be a 17)portal, or to 18)maximize the time spent on our site.?Last September, Facebook announced it would create geographic groups, 19)essentially 20)enabling anyone to join a group based on where they live. The 13 million members today function in over 40,000 different groups.
　　Facebook also made news recently with a $200 million deal in which Microsoft became the 21)exclusive seller of banner ads and 22)sponsored links. However, even the Microsoft founder might have hesitated before blowing the chance of a $1 billion offer for Zuckerberg’s 23)fledgling business. Zuckerberg has told Yahoo, the Internet giant, that $1 billion is not enough to sell out. Now leaked documents suggest that Yahoo was willing to raise its 24)bid to $1.6 billion.
　　“We’re focused on building the company for the long term,”said Zuckerberg to the press.
　　At present, Zuckerberg keeps tight control over the company’s activities. He still writes some of the site’s program code, designs most of its features and 25)represents the site in public.
　　
　　A Brief Interview with Mark Zuckerberg
　　
　　Reporter: “What time do you wake up in the morning”
　　Mark Zuckerberg: That depends. There are two modes. I keep 26)programmer time sometimes. When you’re at your computer you can get distracted by other people, so programmers tend to stay up really late and work when everyone else is asleep. So it’s not really uncommon for me to stay up until 6 or 8 in the morning. The other mode is when I have a meeting. The business world does not operate between 5PM and 8AM, so that requires some waking up for. The two kind of go together well because sometimes I’m waking up at 8AM and sometimes I’m going to bed at 8AM. So I’ll go for three days without sleeping, which is really sweet.
　　R: Your website was one of the first social networking sites to 27)explicitly ground its online community on a physical one.
　　MZ: That’s why I think the website has been such a success. We don’t view the site as an online community ?we bill it as a directory that is 28)reinforcing a physical community. What exists on the site is a mirror image of what exists in real life.
　　R: In your view, are there any 29)negative 30)aspects to the website?
　　MZ: Oh sure, there are. It’s not unusual for us to receive an email from somebody saying, “I spend all of my time on your website and now I have less of a social life than I had before.”We would much rather have people meet people through the website and go out and party than stay at home on a Friday night reading other people’s profiles.
　　R: “Have you benefited socially from the website”
　　MZ: I get more out of making the site and hearing from people who have benefited from the site than actually using it. But the other weekend some friends and I were down in L.A. and we were able to throw an 31)impromptu party after messaging some 32)random people we didn’t know at UCLA注. That was pretty cool.
　　R: Does Facebook help you 33)pick up girls?
　　MZ: It helps my friends pick up girls.
　　
　　23岁的哈佛辍学学生马克・朱克伯格开始被称为是“下一个比尔・盖茨”。马克・朱克伯格是热门校园社交网站“脸谱”的创始人。学生使用“脸谱”的网络工具来结交朋友，与老朋友重逢以及安排活动。“脸谱”公司不久前才重新设计其网站页面并获得了丰厚的风险资本。
　　朱克伯格具有战略思维。你能从他的讲话中明显看出他与别人合办的公司是一个经过深思熟虑而建立起来的企业。这比大多数观察者所意识到的更为重要，而这并不单纯因为该网站已拥有一千三百万名成员。在18至24岁的青少年中，“脸谱”已成为最受欢迎和最具影响力的网站。这一组别的人群令人难以捉摸，在不久的将来他们将成为消费的主力军―其实在某些领域，他们现在就已经是了。
　　
　　“脸谱”是怎样起家的？
　　
　　“脸谱”于2004年2月由马克・朱克伯格、克里斯・休斯以及达斯丁・莫斯科维茨在哈佛大学创立，其前身是“Thefacebook”。网站传遍整个哈佛校园，在几个星期里便有超过一半的本科生在该网站注册。接着，网站迅速发展到哥伦比亚大学、斯坦福大学以及其它“常青藤”盟校校园里，现在连加州伯克利大学的学生也能登录该网站。尽管“脸谱”也受到来自其它一些类似的当地网站的挑战，但它迅速风靡各大校园依然可算是网络一大奇迹。现在“脸谱”已出现在全美几乎所有大学校园内，是全球互联网上流量第七大的网站。凭借其一千三百万的庞大用户，“脸谱”已成为美国第二大社交网站。不仅如此，网站在英国校园也大受欢迎，其中部分原因是它向用户确保只有来自同一学校或工作地点的人才能互相联系。
　　“三年前当我建立‘脸谱’时，我的目标是帮助人们更好地了解他们身边所发生的事情。我想创建一个环境让人们可以分享任何希望与人分享的信息，同时也对他们所分享信息的对象有所控制。我认为我们现在看到的成功很大原因是由于这些基本原则。” 朱克伯格在他的公开信中表示。
　　
　　“脸谱”身价有十个亿吗？
　　
　　作为“谷歌一代”的成员，年轻俊朗的马克・朱克伯格更关心其改变世界的憧憬。他形容了一下他所说的“‘脸谱’的使命”。
　　“许多公司以扩大社交网为目的凑合结盟，” 朱克伯格说道。“很多都是约会网、媒体网或社区网，而我们的使命是帮助人们了解他们身边的世界。我们无意将自身打造成一个门户网站，或者延长用户在我们网站上的访问时间。”
　　去年9月，“脸谱”宣布网站将按地理位置创建组别，实际上这使所有人都能根据其居住地来加入不同的小组。目前网站所拥有的一千三百万成员已列入到四万多个不同的组别中。
　　最近“脸谱”也因其与微软公司做成两亿美元的交易而成为轰动一时的新闻，这一交易让微软公司得以在“脸谱”网站上独家提供浮动广告与赞助链接。然而，即使是微软的创始人也会在失去以10亿美元收购“脸谱”的机会面前有所迟疑，但朱克伯格却为其刚起步的生意拒绝了。他对互联网巨头雅虎公司说，10亿美元尚不足以收购他的公司。现在据内部文件透露，雅虎可能愿意把收购价提升至16亿美元。
　　“我们正集中精力为公司的长远计划而努力，” 朱克伯格对媒体说。
　　目前，朱克伯格严格操控着公司的日常运作。他还参与网站的部分编程工作，设计大多数的网站功能以及代表网站出席公众活动。
　　
　　简访马克・朱克伯格
　　
　　记者：你早上几点醒来？
　　马克・朱克伯格：视乎情况而定。我有两种模式―有时我保持程序员的作息表。当你坐在电脑前，你会受他人影响而分神，所以程序员一般熬夜到很晚，在其他人睡觉的时候工作。所以对我来说，熬夜到次日清晨6点或8点已不是新鲜事了。另一个模式适合用于我要开会的时候。人们不会在下午5点至次日早上8点这段时间洽谈业务，所以开会的时候我就不能在白天睡觉了。两种模式相辅相成，因为有时我在早上8点醒来，有时则到早上8点才睡觉。我会连续3天不睡觉，那感觉真的很美妙。
　　记：你的网站是首批明确地把网上社区现实化的社交网站之一。
　　马：那就是为什么我觉得网站会获得如此骄人成绩的原因。我们并不把网站看作是一个在线社区―我们把它列表成一个姓名地址通讯录，使其更强化现实社区。网上存在的东西就是真实生活的反映。
　　记：在你看来，网站是否存在消极的一面呢？
　　马：哦，那当然有。我们经常收到用户的电子邮件，说“我在你的网站上花了全部时间，现在我的社交生活比以前少多了”。我们更希望用户能透过网站结识朋友，然后出去交际，参加派对，这无疑比在星期五晚上呆在家里看别人的个人档案要好。
　　记：网站让你在社交方面受益了吗？
　　马：跟我实际使用网站相比起来，我在创建网站和听取因网站而受益的人们的意见上更加受益。但前几个周末，一些朋友和我去了洛杉矶，我们随机地给一些在洛杉矶加利福尼亚大学上学而又素不相识的人发了消息，便搞成了一个即席派对。那可是太神奇了！
　　记：“脸谱”帮助了你结识女孩吗？
　　马：它帮助了我的朋友结识女孩。