Word: connectuã
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...face hauntingly graces thefacebook.com’s Matrix-esque top banner bar. The Winklevoss twins have been featured in New York Magazine, modeling $700 blazers. Zuckerberg’s face has been featured on hundreds of thousands of internet browsers, modeling a cheap collared shirt. Still, if ConnectU??s recent lawsuit against thefacebook is any evidence, it seems like the Winklevosses wouldn’t mind trading places...
...successful because it filled a void, it filled it well and it filled it first. Students at Harvard and elsewhere needed a system to make it easy to form study groups; they needed a way to block out non-college-educated rabble from their buddy list. But as ConnectU??s lackluster debut has shown, they only needed one way. ConnectU accuses Zuckerberg of stealing aspects of their business model. It’s good he didn’t steal the part that said: “Launch site in May.” Thief or not, Zuckerberg...
Zuckerberg, for his part, viewed his participation in ConnectU??s development as “informal,” contributing less than a day’s work, then quitting when the project yielded few appreciable results...
Hughes said that though thefacebook.com retains a lawyer as standard practice, the nature of ConnectU??s claims has forced the site and its administrators to hire a similarly specialized firm—an expense Zuckerberg anticipates will cost the site $100,000, Hughes said...
...think one also has to realize lawsuits cost quite a lot of money and this is...not going to be a small price,” Hughes said. “I think that might be part of [ConnectU??s] strategy...