Postcards

Social networking 101: Do the guys really beat the girls?

Men are savvier online professional networkers than women. So concludes a recent study by LinkedIn (LNKD).

The study garnered lots of attention in the blogosphere, but are LinkedIn's findings really correct?

The professional networking site picked seven large companies -- such as Best Buy (BBY), Wal-Mart (WMT), and Lockheed Martin (LMT) -- and counted the number of "connections" that each company's registered LinkedIn users had.

The results: Men had more connections than women.

Nicole MORE

Zuckerberg eats what he kills: crazy or great?

Readers have been ravenous for "Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge: Eating only what he kills." Thursday's Postcard continues to generate huge traffic and a never-ending debate: Is Facebook's founder and CEO crazy or is he the most rational billionaire in Silicon Valley?

No surprise, the name-calling given Zuckerberg's "personal challenges," as he describes them--from the Year of the Tie to learning Chinese to eating meat only from creatures he kills. The 27-year-old MORE

Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook comment on eating only what he kills

Yesterday we told you about Mark Zuckerberg's 2011 challenge to himself: "The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," the Facebook founder and CEO told Fortune in an interview.

As we detailed, an inkling of "Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge" popped up on his private Facebook page a few weeks ago. On May 4, the 27-year-old billionaire told his 847 friends: "I just killed a pig and a goat."

His MORE

Mark Zuckerberg's new challenge: Eating only what he kills (and yes, we do mean literally...)

Last year Mark Zuckerberg set out to learn Chinese. Now he's determined to get in touch with his food. If the goats, lobsters and chickens of Silicon Valley aren't trembling, they should be.

When he's not too busy connecting people across the universe, Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing a new "personal challenge," as he calls it. "The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," says the Facebook founder and CEO.

It's MORE

Top women change jobs and lean into their careers

Linda Robinson is leaving the PR firm Robinson Lerer Montgomery to join BlackRock.

Linda Robinson sounded like Oprah in her stunning announcement that she's leaving her namesake PR firm, Robinson Lerer Montgomery, to join BlackRock. "The last 25 years have been an amazing journey and I'm excited for the next chapter in my life," she wrote in a Monday afternoon email that bounced around Manhattan and across corporate America's upper echelons.

Robinson's MORE

Do women media stars know their own power?

by Patricia Sellers

Today, on National Equal Pay Day, it's worth noting that women still make only 77 cents vs. the average man's dollar.

I may catch flak for saying this, but one reason is that women aren't as good at negotiating as men are. I know this from talking with hundreds of women in the Fortune's Most Powerful Women community. And many women on our annual Most Powerful Women list have MORE

What's next at Yahoo? Layoffs

by Patricia Sellers

While rumors keep swirling about Yahoo (YHOO) merging with AOL (AOL) in a deal that would include private equity, don't hold your breath. A source close to Yahoo told me today that neither AOL nor private equity buyers have contacted the company to discuss a potential deal.

Meanwhile, Yahoo news that should transpire sooner: layoffs. Sources tell me that Yahoo next week plans to announce 10% cuts in the MORE

Living in Oprah's World

by Patricia Sellers

Does it seem, sometimes, that it's Oprah's World and we're just living in it?

There she is on TV everyday -- not only on The Oprah Winfrey Show but also a virtual presence, at least, on Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and other shows that she and her company, Harpo, have created.

She's on every cover of her magazine, O, telling us what to eat, what to buy, and how to MORE

Facebook's Sandberg, on the move again

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is going on the Disney (DIS) board. Smart move for her. And smart move for Disney CEO Bob Iger and his fellow directors. 

Sandberg, 40, is super-smart and supremely connected, having worked her way from Harvard to the World Bank to the U.S. Treasury--where she worked for then-Secretary Larry Summers--to Google (GOOG), where she was the top-ranked woman exec. She moved to Facebook early last year. And MORE

Power Point: To friend or unfriend?

"'Unfriend' has real lex-appeal."

-- Christine Lindberg, senior lexicographer for the Oxford University Press's U.S. dictionary program. Today The New Oxford American Dictionary revealed that 'unfriend' is the 2009 word of the year. If you've got a Facebook profile, you've likely unfriended some annoying person in your network. Someone may have even (gasp) unfriended you!

There were lots of tech-isms in the running this year--paywall, netbook, sexting. One tech trend actually spawned MORE