Sean Parker shares his thoughts on the latest Facebook updates, via Facebook updates

In a series ofpublic posts on Facebooklate last night, Sean Parker shares how he feels about some of the new changes, focusing on lists and subscriptions. In the interest of keeping Parker’s thoughts whole and intact so as to avoid any miscommunication, we’ve included the full very public and extremely insightful posts. It seems like Sean Parker, who owns 7% of Facebook stock, and also an early Advisor and President from 2004-05, is somewhat happy with the changes he sees....

4 min · 844 words · Jennifer White

Sean Parker: The Social Network is a complete work of fiction

Sean ParkerandPaulo Coelho‘s two man panel atDLDraised a number of interesting points about the future of content but it was Coelho’s question to Parker on his thoughts on theThe Social Network, that grabbed everyone’s attention. Parker said he enjoyed the movie, thought it was beautifully shot and had great respect for director David Fincher but, in his own words, the movie is “a complete work of fiction.” Scenes involving drug use and Victoria Secret models?...

2 min · 270 words · Justin Thompson

Sean Parker’s First Tweet: “Sorry Zuck”

After gracing the cover of Forbes Magazine, Sean Parker of Napster and Facebook fame has finally given in and joined the microblogging social network, Twitter. After apologizing to Mark Zuckerberg, Parker, the Facebook Founding President, tweets that his decision was made under the influence of his friendScooter Braun. Parker’s new Twitter bio, which includes references to Napster, Plaxo, Facebook, Causes & Airtime and the Founders Fund, confirmsour earlier speculationthat Parker and Napster co-founder Sean Fanning are partnering up once again to launch a new startup called Airtime....

2 min · 222 words · Maria Valencia

Sean Power remotely figures out who and where his laptop’s thief is

Sean Power’s laptop was stolen a few days ago. But there’s a funny story unfolding onTwitterright now as Power is able to locate, personally identify and publicly shame the man who stole the laptop. Thanks toPreyand Power’s own investigating, he was able to identify the user as one of the co-founders of a New York restaurant. Why he’d put his reputation or the reputation of his business on the line is beyond me, but the evidence we saw from Power earlier tonight is irrefutable....

2 min · 397 words · Pamela Lopez

Search Engine Connects You to Your Canadian Roots

A few weeks ago, wereportedthat Canada’s family trees were going completely digital, meaning Canadians would soon be able to use searchable databases to find historical data. Now Canadians have their very own search engine for discovering Canadian history and genealogy. TheCanadiana Discovery Portalconnects Canadians to over 60 million pages of data from various archive collections and includes information from multiple libraries, museums, universities and government agencies. What does it do? It allows users to perform searches similar to searching a term on Google but it’s all Canadian content....

3 min · 490 words · Robert Burke
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