NO SWEAT FOR MARK ZUCKERBERG ON 60 MINUTES

That wasn’t Jesse Eisenberg reprising his Oscar-worthy portrayal of Mark Zuckerberg on network TV last night. It was the former “toddler CEO” himself, having accepted an invitation from 60 Minutes to premiere the significantly reconfigured Facebook profile page, as well as submitting to a grilling by reporter Leslie Stahl.

The redesigned profile page will include a brief overview of your basic info, along with a row of the five most recently posted and/or tagged photos—but you can hide specific photos if you hate the way you look in them.

The changes will be broken out today—though the only new item on our own profile page as of 5:30 a.m. PT is a rectangle at the very top with the word “Facebook” in it, followed by this note: “Drag this to your home button to see what's happening with friends as soon as you open your browser.” The strange part, considering that the network is all but trouble-free, is that it doesn’t work…not yet, anyway.

At any rate, if you missed the two-part segment because you were transfixed by the Steelers and Ravens dueling it out on Sunday Night Football, you can watch it on 60 Minutes Overtime, which also has a video tour of the new features guided by CBS News in-house geek editor Joe Akbrud.

Here are a couple of bits from the interview transcribed by the Wall Street Journal:

Are you ever going to have the IPO? Ever? It’s like you can’t let go.
You know, maybe.…I don’t think it’s letting go. Here’s the way that I think about it. A lot of people who… build startups or companies think that selling the company or going public is this end point. You win when you go public. That’s just not how I see it.

Is there a decision that you’ve made that the people around you told you was a mistake, and you defied them, and you were right?
The most famous one, I think, probably has to do with selling the company. In 2006, we had this opportunity to sell the company to Yahoo for $1 billion and we turned that down. I think a lot of people at the time thought that we should sell the company. But I felt really strongly, and I think now people generally think that was a good decision.

Zuckie also had an amusing take on The Social Network. “I can’t tell you how many messages I’ve gotten from people who use Facebook writing in to say this movie was really inspiring to me—‘After seeing this movie I want to start a company, or I want to go into computer science, or I want to study math,’” he said. “If the movie had that effect on people, that’s awesome, right? I mean, that’s great.”

“You almost sound enthusiastic about this movie,” Stahl noted.

“That part,” Zuckerberg clarified.