Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a status update in support of the Internet blackout protests of SOPA. “The internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world. We can’t let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the internet’s development. Facebook opposes SOPA and PIPA, and we will continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the internet.”

Yes, our friends from NMATV are back, and they’re taking on the new changes being made to Facebook.

This is cute: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has paid tribute to Steve Jobs as he knows best how to by ‘Like’-ing him on Facebook, of course. Because these days, the sound of a hero’s praise is something akin to the sound of a million ‘Likes’ being clicked. Zuck’s profile will from here on out forever salute Jobs — alongside “Brogramming” and “Lotus Thai Bistro” – as one of his very most ‘Like’-ed things.

Ah yes…we recall those days when everyone asked us “who needs another media site” as many will certainly ask of Mogulite. The difference, of course is that our friends at Mogulite can’t answer it, and we could! Kidding. Just like Mediaite, Mogulite will focus on personalities and in their case, the titans of industry and very powerful people who don’t always welcome attention the way our friends in media do.

So what to make of Mogulite? Well let’s let our newest cohort Amy Tennery explain its raison d’etre

President Obama did a town hall at Facebook headquarters today and got a rousing response. The audience was receptive and he (and moderator Mark Zuckerberg) seemed to be enjoying themselves. However, just like in a job interview (which this kind of was, if you think about it) Obama was eventually asked about his faults. We’ve got his winding response. And, no, he didn’t say that he “sometimes tries too hard.”

Hey, White House press conference fans, have you been in serious need of a Robert Gibbs fix lately? While, the former press secretary has been of the radar since he left White House in February, a New York Times report may have a lead on his where he’s popping up next: Facebook! Yes, the social media giant is apparently thinking of hiring Gibbs to “help communicate the company’s message in the media, to investors and policy makers.” This, of course, can only mean one thing. Mark Zuckerberg is finally repealing the ban on people in complicated relationships joining the Facebook army! Hooray!

It appears Facebook’s controversial privacy settings have sent Congress sniffing out wrongdoing at the company once more. After receiving similar inquiry requests little more than a year ago, Mark Zuckerberg has some more explaining to do to the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus.

It’s not unusual for fathers to be so proud of their children’s accomplishments that they end up utterly embarrassing those children to the point that they grind their teeth and ball their hands into fists underneath the too-long sleeves of their signature hoodies. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and SNL-cameo-appearance-maker, is not immune from having to deal with a proud papa’s well-meaning antics. His father, a Dobbs Ferry, New York-based dentist named Edward J. Zuckerberg, has taken to marketing himself as the “Father of Facebook.”

For months it seemed as if The Social Network was the odds on favorite to win an Oscar for Best Picture this year. The buzz was great, Facebook is the meme of the moment and ticket sales were staggering. Then, something changed. Now it’s a horse race with The King’s Speech now neck in neck with The Social Network to nab this years biggest prize in filmmaking.

How did that happen, and why?

Jesse Eisenberg’s opening monologue for “Saturday Night Live” got off to a pretty standard start — he name-dropped “The Social Network,” poked fun at his über-nerd persona, and was interrupted by Andy Samberg-as-Mark-Zuckerberg. The fun was ruined, however, by the appearance of Zuckerberg himself. Game changer!

Yesterday mega-pop superstar Katy Perry visited Facebook for a livechat with Randi Zuckerberg and a tour of the office, and many photos were taken. Many, many photos. Also, it was Nacho Wednesday! Photos and Teenage Dreams inside.

Last night just before 12 a.m., Twitter began exploding with the news: Facebook had raised $500 million — from Goldman Sachs. Bolstered by a $50-million stake from Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies, a previous FB investor, the Wall Street behemoth had slapped down $450 million to snag the Internet behemoth — now valued at a cool $50 billion. As if on cue, the internet noted that yes, that was cooler than a million dollars.

Yes, this is a big deal. Here’s what it will mean.

The New Year is here, and with it, the annual exercise in futility that is the New Year’s Resolution. As you stare into the abyss of another 365 days in which to improve yourself, it might help you to know that the figures who make Mediaite go ’round have some things to work on, too. Here’s what we think some of them are saying into the mirror this morning.

So, before you try to shake off that Cold Duck and Four Loko hangover and blearily search for a gym membership you can get out of when you get tired of it after 3 sessions, why not check out our list  of New Year’s Resolutions for Everyone Else?

The impossibly rich, handsome, and athletic Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are busy twins. They’re publishing party photography sites, taking courses at Oxford, and rowing in preparation for the 2012 London Olympics. Oh, and they’re still fighting Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook, as they have been for six years now.

You may choose to be depressed with a year-in-review video that leads with Justin Bieber, Jersey Shore, Lady Gaga and Glee. Don’t worry, WatchMojo’s 2010: Year In Review video also has Obama, health care, Haiti, Pakistan Chilean Miners, Palin, Oprah, Lost, Team Coco, Facebook, BP’s sticky legacy of oil and, of course, Julian Assange. Also, Canada! Also, Kathryn Bigelow (holla)! Year-end review videos are always a fun look-back, even as they make you cringe a little at how long ago X or Y was and what have you really accomplished since then? And why aren’t YOU on this list? YOU’RE A FAILURE. Just kidding. This is a fun video.

The more notorious Julian Assange becomes, the more fun Bill Hader seems to have with the character. He interrupted a message from Mark Zuckerberg on last night’s Saturday Night Live in order to demonstrate why he should be Time’s Person of the Year. “Thanks to WikiLeaks, you can see how corrupt governments operate in the shadows,” he said between muahahas. “Thanks to Facebook, you can figure out which Sex and the City character you are.”

Well, it’s pretty clear WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can get himself booked on The View.

The hosts chuckled at TIME‘s selection of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg as Billionaire Person of the Year, conceding that, sure, Facebook is clearly a global big deal and Zuckerberg’s obviously smart.

But the Viewsters say the guy who’s really POTY-worthy is Assange.

There is no doubt both Google and Facebook are fantastic and wildly innovative companies that have changed consumers’ lives and consumption patterns. What they have not done is changed the rules of investing or altered the limitations posed by a finite economy.

Let’s hope all this attention–and now status as TIME‘s Person of the Year–won’t go to Mark Zuckerberg‘s head. He is, after all, a 26-year-old billionaire and the guy who has control over basically every picture you’ve posted online in the last three years.

The announcement was made live this morning on NBC’s TODAY by TIME managing editor Richard Stengel.

Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Bloomberg, George Lucas, and a baker’s dozen of other American billionaires are really taking this whole “season of giving” thing seriously. The Wall Street Journal reports that 16 tycoons have just signed on to the “Giving Pledge,” thereby vowing to donate most of their wealth to worthy causes.

Aaron Sorkin, sharpen your pencil. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the crew-rowing, patrician twins who sued Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 for allegedly stalling their Harvard dating site in order to get his own social network—The Facebook—off the ground, are at it again. Though they received a settlement for $65 million in 2008, the Winklevii now say they should have gotten more money—so they’re suing Zuckerberg for a second time.

In a preview video of this Sunday’s 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl asks Facebook wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg for his thoughts on The Social Network. Zuckerberg, who once told the media that he wouldn’t even bother watching Aaron Sorkin‘s depiction of Facebook’s inception, ended up taking all of his employees to see it with him. “I actually thought it was pretty fun,” he told Stahl. Yet he added, “There were hugely basic things that they got wrong too.” Girls, he claimed, were not his motivation for starting Facebook, citing that he already had a girlfriend at that point.

Former President George W. Bush‘s Decision Points publicity blitz continued yesterday, when he sat down with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for a live chat at the website’s Palo Alto headquarters. During the interview, Dubya again demonstrated why voters once indicated they’d love to grab a beer with him—mostly by poking fun at Zuckerberg through the duration of their talk.

The sluggish U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has finally responded to Facebook’s 2005 application to trademark the word ‘face’ with a notice of allowance, which is a bureaucratic way of saying “Go for it.” The company “now has six months to show that is uses the trademark,” ABC News reports, after which the Trademark Office will decide whether to grant final approval. Oh, and there’s a fee, of course—Mark Zuckerberg will have to part with $100 to complete the claim.

My return to New York has reminded me of the existence of “Cool.”  It was conspicuously absent from my summer stomping ground, Menlo Park, and I certainly don’t have much of it naturally, so I forgot about it until a few weeks ago. You can imagine my not-in-Kansas-anymore reaction to passing clubs on a Saturday [...]