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Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
Category: Business, Economics and Law
In his sophomore year of college, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network. But the site caught on like wildfire, and soon students nationwide were on Facebook. Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from Zuckerberg's first, modest iteration. It has grown into a tec ...Show more
Facebook: The Inside Story by Steven Levy
Category: Politics
'A penetrating account of the momentous consequences of a reckless young company with the power to change the world' Brad Stone, author of The Everything Store and The Upstarts How much power and influence does Facebook have over our lives? How has it changed how we interact with one another? And what i ...Show more
Facebook - The Inside Story by Steven Levy
Category: Business Finance Management
One of the Best Technology Books of 2020--Financial Times "Levy's all-access Facebook reflects the reputational swan dive of its subject. . . . The result is evenhanded and devastating."--San Francisco Chronicle " Levy's] evenhanded conclusions are still damning."--Reason " He] doesn't shy from aski ...Show more
Hackers by Steven Levy
Category: Culture
Steven Levy's classic book about the original hackers of the computer revolution is now available in a special 25th anniversary edition, with updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Richard Stallman, and Tim O'Reilly. Hackers traces the exploits of innovators from th ...Show more
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
Category: Philosophy and Religion
It is best known for its search engine, but as Steven Levy explains, Google's ambitions go far beyond internet searching. It has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, television, and is the most powerful company in the advertising business. Its advertising business produces revenues so ...Show more
In the Plex - How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
Category: Business, Economics and Law
"The most interesting book ever written about Google" (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword. Google is arguably the most important company in the world today, with such pervasive influen ...Show more
Perfect Thing, The by Steven Levy
Category: Fiction
Traces the roots of the download phenomenon with Napster and MP3.com, the seismic shockwaves sent through the music industry around the globe by the popularity of internet file-sharing and downloads, to the setting up of iTunes and the invention of the iPod. This work also explores the cultural effects ...Show more
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