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Calacanis Rant: Zuckerberg 'Out'

Mahalo CEO and serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis says Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has simply overplayed his hand. "Facebook is officially 'out,' as in uncool, amongst partners, parents and pundits all coming to the realization that Zuckerberg and his company are -- simply put -- not trustworthy," Calacanis insists. Case in point, casual gaming company Zynga is reportedly developing plans to get over what Calacanis calls its "Facebook dependency."

Calling Zuckerberg "an amoral, Asperger's-like entrepreneur," Calacanis says the Facebook founder has screwed over his users again and again in terms of privacy, not to mention his former employers at ConnectU and his early partners at Facebook. To name a few, the long list of unfortunates who've so far been "Zucked" -- or screwed over by Zuckerberg -- includes FourSquare ("when Facebook stole their check-in feature," writes Calacanis); Twitter ("when Facebook stole their public facing profiles"); and Facebook users, "when the site flipped their privacy setting -- three different times!"

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