Diaspora, the open-source, privacy-minded social network, has great online buzz, thanks to $200,000 in start-up funds raised exclusively through Kickstarter and a dirty nerdy joke they slipped past the Times. Now, a launch date is set: September 15th. [Wired]

If you're planning on setting up any kind of online community for your business — and who isn't these days? — know that Facebook has begun suing to protect "the distinctive BOOK portion" of its trademark, starting with Teachbook.com.

Facebook abruptly removed ads for pot legalization group Just Say Now, saying the ads' marijuana leaves might encourage Facebook members to try toking. A social network founded on college campuses can't really think its users are strangers to pot.

Facebook's ideal Facebook movie is one which depicts Mark Zuckerberg coding alone in his dorm room, the action climaxing in a bathroom break. But The Social Network has cocaine and boobs. What happened to Hollywood's age-old defense of the truth?

So, everyone's excited about the new Facebook Places, right? The Facebook service that lets you check-in, Foursquare style, at whatever hip Sushi bar/bicycle repair shop you happen to be in. Oh, and also other people can check you in, too.

Mark Zuckerberg's email ghostwriter has ditched him. Who is going apologize for the Facebook CEO's privacy sins now?

There's a melodramatic "war" brewing between Facebook and Google, and Facebook's CEO is seizing the opportunity to squeeze more work from his engineers, declaring a "lockdown," keeping the office open on weekends, and putting a neon sign on his door.

The New York designer suing for control of Facebook says he has evidence gleaned from more than a year's worth of emails with founder Mark Zuckerberg. But the magic mushroom enthusiast might just be tripping.

Facebook's director of engineering got married in India earlier this year, and his boss Mark Zuckerberg joined him for the wedding, sister and girlfriend in tow. Now pictures of the social networkers are circulating around the subcontinent.

Mark Zuckerberg turned strangers' intimate moments into riches. We turned the tables on the Facebook CEO, lurking outside his house, following him out with his girlfriend and pals, and to Chinese language lessons. America's youngest billionaire got the paparazzi treatment.

Mark Zuckerberg's Age of Privacy Is Over

Zuckerberg leaving his Palo Alto house. Despite his wealth—his shares in Facebook are worth an estimated $4 billion—he lives a very low key lifestyle.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally spoke out on a Web designer's strange claim to own 84 percent of the social network. Zuckerberg says the lawsuit is insane, and a Facebook spokesman implied it's part of a shakedown attempt.

Tonight on ABC's World News, Diane Sawyer aired her exclusive interview with famously camera-shy (how ironic!) Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, just after the site hit its 500 millionth user. Inside, the best—and most awkward—moments from their candid chat.

The random designer trying to claim 84 percent of Facebook might have CEO Mark Zuckerberg's signature on a contract giving him the ownership stake. Facebook's courtroom admissions are making Paul Ceglia's claim sound a lot less insane.

Facebook may have close to 500 million users, but it has one of the lowest scores on the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which ranks how people respond to certain companies. That means you like paying taxes slightly more than Facebook.

You've all seen that spooky Social Network trailer with the choral cover of Radiohead's 'Creep'. The trick works on real-life Mark Zuckerberg, too. Here's the infamous video of his nervous breakdown at the D8 Conference set to the track.

A New York Supreme Court justice blocked Facebook from transferring any assets, so a wood pellet distributor from Wellsville, New York can press his case that he's the real inventor of the social network. This is crazy on many levels.

Boom! Mark Zuckerberg was served legal papers relating to a mysterious lawsuit at a fancy lunch in Sun Valley, Idaho yesterday. The sneaky server pretended to ask for Mark Zuckerberg's autograph before dropping the bomb.

Are you anticipating The Social Network as highly as we are? It's this movie about a deranged psycho who kills people by strangling them with their own small intestines. No, wait. It's about a nerd who founded a popular website.