• It’s Facebook, What Else Did You Expect?

    Monday, October 10th, 2011

    Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in... → Learn More

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    Top: Landscape-mode screenshot from Facebook’s new, unified iOS update.

    Bottom: Landscape-mode screenshot from MyPad’s iPhone app.

    I swear to God Facebook, we should start holding a contest for people who can spot this this kind of design “flattery” — like have them win Disrupt Beijing tickets or something.

    For practice: Here’s what their respective iPad apps look like, guess which one’s Facebook’s and which one’s MyPad’s …

    Mon Dieu.

    via: Digeratii


    Company: Facebook
    Website: facebook.com
    Launch Date: February 1, 2004
    IPO: NASDAQ:FB

    Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 845 million monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original...

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