We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May.

Here’s Part 4 of 4 of an interview I did with Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.

The social-networking site has had quite a year as the hottest and most hyped on the Web 2.0 landscape. With fast growth and still-questionable monetization power, where Facebook is going will be a journey plenty will be paying attention to.

In this video, Zuckerberg and Sandberg take questions from the audience about privacy, older users, needed Facebook applications, how open its platform should be, data protection, the dilemma of too many Facebook friends and the importance of search.

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Last week, I appeared at the second annual Tech Policy Summit, held in Hollywood, which covered a wide range of important topics related to digital issues and public policy.

The privacy panel I moderated was called “Personalization and Privacy: Deciding Who Does What with Customer Data.”
And the decision right now on that critical issue? Pretty [...]

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[UPDATED with more information.]

So exactly why did Facebook unleash such a massive legal fury on 02138 magazine yesterday over documents the publication posted online?

Because, said sources, those documents–including an application to Harvard University–contained Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Social Security number, the full name of his girlfriend and the address of his parent’s house in New York.

Now, apparently, the Beacon’s on the other foot.

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Here’s a video interview I did while at the Monaco Media Forum with Facebook’s Chief Revenue Officer Owen Van Natta about the new ad product from the hot social network–dubbed “social advertising”– that has everyone’s knickers in a knot.
Excuse that metaphor, but I am traveling in England, so it seemed exactly the right one to [...]

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