while video chat isn't new, airtime is getting a lot of attention, because it's founders are shawn parkerhawn fanning, creators of the music sharing service napster back in the mid '90s. this week on rock center, savannah guthrie sits down with both men thursday night 10:00 p.m. eastern, 9:00 central. >>> thanks to the new england journal of medicine, this man this week became the face sun damage. his name is bill mcelligott. he's 69 years old, he drives a semi. and for 30 years that one with side of his face has been exposed to the sun in the cab of his truck. his doctors say it's a stark textbook example of repeated long term sun exposure. >>> and sad news from here in new york, the shuttle got dinged. the shuttle "enterprise" which survived a flight on the back of a 747 from d.c. to new york did not do so well while traveling by water on a barge to its permanent home on the intrepid, the retired aircraft carrier turned museum. it suffered wing damage this weekend. it was passing under a railroad bridge. it was a tight fit to begin with, then a 35 knot gust of wind got ahold of it. the

. >> the thing yesterday with shawn parker. >> shawn parker. >> he said that's available on facebook.acebook is the platform. >> right, that's the platform. so then i'm thinking, it's too bad the way this worked out because facebook is tarnished a little bit from this. and if they had priced it at $25, it's going to be up today. it's going to be $26.50 or so. price it at $25. it didn't matter. the rest of their shares eventually could be at $38, but they really messed that up. >> the question -- and ann, just a question to you. is facebook the utility that resides at the core and the value really goes to the applications that you're just describing? >> well, the value goes to facebook and to the applications and tarnished in whose eyes? is it tarnished -- >> maybe just for a little while. when you value it at $108 billion, that was asking a lot, wasn't it? >> well, clearly it was because it wasn't valued at that. >> what caused that? all the trading? we've never seen that much trading in a stock before it went public. >> look, the ipo and the ipo process was a mess. maybe andrew shoul

here are two names from the not-so-distant past, sean parker and shawn fanning. rly took down the funding structure of the modern music industry as we know it with napster, the file-sharing service. then parker got in on the ground floor of facebook. now these two friends say they've seen the future again. savannah guthrie reports on the next thing to come from sean and shawn. >> i'm sean parker. >> how do you do? >> reporter: you just might think of sean parker as this guy. >> i founded napster. >> sean parker founded napster. >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: the flashy net entrepreneur played by justin timberlake in "the social network," the blockbuster film about facebook's early days. >> just facebook. >> reporter: this is the real sean parker. justin timberlake plays a sean parker who is greedy, slick, manipulative, betrays a friend. >> that character in the film is a bad person. i mean, i'm appalled watching -- watching the film. and i'm appalled by his character's behavior. >> reporter: you come across by a jerk. >> that casualty was a jerk. >> reporter: p

give it up for sean parker and shawn fanning, everybody! ow. i've seen you before, sean parker, but both of you guys together -- you guys traded napster. that was a giant, giant thing. and how old were you guys when you created that? >> well, i was 18. >> we were basically children. >> yeah. >> jimmy: basically -- yeah, 18 years old. and how did you meet? how did you just get together? you didn't live by each other, right? >> we actually met on the internet. [ light laughter ] as creepy and weird as that may sound. >> jimmy: no -- what do you mean? so, you met -- what do you mean? like on chat rooms and stuff? >> yeah, there was a time when being on a chat room wasn't about asl and trying to, you know, find a date. we were actually -- we met through internet security which is -- one way of saying hacking. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's one way of saying it. i guess so, yeah. >> otherwise known as the computer -- >> jimmy: yeah, yeah. so, you met -- you were both hackers. >> yeah. >> pretty much. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you're both hackers. you

david access, the head of yammer, formerly the ceo at paypal, and shawn parker, who we all know from having worked as facebook has been part of the board of yammer, so yammer will be part of microsoft's office division, they say david sax is going to stay on and continue to run that business under microsoft. this is important, because sharepoint, a key part of microsoft office that allows enter prices to be more social, had been super ceded in some cases by apps like yammer. that will become a part of microsoft, guys, back to you. >> jon, can i ask a basic question? >> sure. >> who are or what is yammer? >> well, it's one of these things that allows people in office environments to collaborate, not just using e-mail. think of it as a competitor of things like jibe, which recently had abipo. it's a rethinking of the way people communicate within offices. you can sign up just as a regular working, it all then -- the company can sort of later claim the account that people inside the office are already using. >> it's the new talking? >> um, i think -- >> facebook for work? pinterest? >>

in fact, in just a few minutes' time we'll hear from shawn parker. who's he? the napster co-founder who's a big facebook friend. one of the early investors. his first comments since the ipo of facebook. you have to stick around for that. >>> first, courtney and rick on the markets. we've got some gains. they're not hitting it out of the park. you know what, we'll take what we can get, right? >> exactly. the volume's pretty low, too, mandy. really narrow trading range. we are higher now. a lot of triggers hoping perhaps in vain for more out of that g-7 conference. they're now awaiting the ecb tomorrow, ben bernanke thursday to really inspire at least a catalyst for a move one way or the other. utilities and staples have been gaining a little bit of strength in the last couple hours. although we still are seeing some negative moves. they're still moving higher. mcdonald's, kraft and coke some of those names. financial made moves early and stayed high throughout the session. despite a number of analyst notes to the contrary. raymond james downgrading 76 names inc

. >> interesting, too, to listen to shawn parker yesterday talk about the mood in the valley sayisayng look, a lot of these employees have sold minimal nunl ber of shares. >> i always feel so bad fwr rich people. >> if they're not happy, it's their own fault. that's my great, great uncle, vlad lenin. >> i also think that we have to acknowledge that the peechl who got allocations were probably rich people. >> let eegs be honest here, jim. if you're saying let's not feel 3w5d for rich people. we're also saying we should feel bad for these investors. >> my work behind the scenes shows that a lot of people got stock that they didn't expect or want. and that's part of the syndicate problem here. that the retail network didn't want all of this stock and they got this stock vmt. i think as we report more and more, they shoved it to the lit lt guys. we should feel bad for all retail investors. >> look at the volume. we come here every day and the retailers are saying why are u youing about spain? i feel for the guile who was me in 1979 trading in my dar. trying to buy five shares of bobby br

shawn has left his mark. >> bye! >> reporter: in anne arundel county, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> i love shawn's spirit. could all have that all the time. >> hard not to smile when you see him. >> hard not to smile at the weather we're having. >> pretty good. going to get hot for the weekend. i think actually tomorrow will be pretty hot, middle 80s or so, warmer than we've been in quite a while. we were 83 today. >> and rainy. >> in some places. >> rain. >> not here in town, but some places got some rain. this is in colorado and a lot of hail not only today, but a lot of hail yesterday and numerous reports out there of tornadoes and land spouts which is kind of like a tornado, not quite as dangerous, but still pretty scary nonetheless and rain as well. some of that weather out in the rockies has extended up into wyoming, north dakota. i'll show you some of that on satellite and radar coming up in a bit. nothing like that is coming here. we did have some hit or miss showers and thunderstorms out there. here we are now, sentinel radar showing us that everything pushed south. anything around us this evenin

parker, fox 5 news. >> he looks great. the news keeps coming. shawn yancy is in for brian tonight on the news edge at 11:00. >>> it is a very busy tuesday night. on deck victory for the university of virginia's popular president, local teenagers help save lives in a major condo fire and skins quarterback robert griffin, iii is talking about that extortion attempt targeting him. >>> but we begin with a historic decision made here in the distinct today. after years of debate, controversy and pleading from fans college football finally has a new playoff system. wisdom martin with reaction tonight. >> the college presidents are calling this a major milestone for college football and at the same time many fans are saying it's about time. after 14 years of controversy and criticism of the bcs system with no playoffs of college football, there is finally a four team seeded playoff system to determine a champion. >> i think it's great timing. everybody has been waiting for it and pressing for it. anybody that i ever watched college football with is always say