Facebook je na burzi, a Zuckerbergov prvi status je nakon (hakirane) objave bio…

Facebook je izašao na burzu! Točnije, Facebookovim će se dionicama početati trgovati kroz sat vremena – u 17 sati po našem, a 11 sati po vremenu u New Yorku gdje se nalazi američka elektronička burza dionica NASDAQ.

Facebookova dionica trebala bi u tom trenutku vrijediti 38 dolara. Mark Zuckerberg, pokretač najveće društvene mreže na svijetu, je nakon tradicionalnog prvog zvona objavio sljedeći status na Facebooku:

Možda mislite da je status objavljen ručno? Nema šanse – Facebookov inženjer David Garcia je na Techcrunchu objasnio kako su “hakirali” NASDAQ-ovo zvono da automatski objavi status na njihovoj društvenoj mreži:

During lunch, some us started talking about how cool it would be if the second Mark rang the bell a story would post to his timeline to let his friends and subscribers know.

I was so excited about this idea that when I got back to my desk, I posted on Facebook: “We should totally hack the button so it pushes an open graph action, “Mark Rang the NASDAQ bell”.

The first person to comment? Zuck: “It would be epic if you pulled that off.”

The solution: connect the NASDAQ button to a mobile phone logged into Facebook to generate an open graph action. While this seemed simple, it would prove to be a little more complex in practice.