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There’s been far too much fuss about faces lately. The craggy, Neanderthal-esque Winklevoss twins, co-founders of the college-geared Friendster knockoff ConnectU with their business partner Divya Narendra, are pitted against the (pleasant-looking) Mark Zuckerberg, whose own 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...
...founders of ConnectU allege that Zuckerberg stole their idea for a networking site while he was doing unpaid work for them. Zuckerberg then coded on overdrive, releasing thefacebook long before ConnectU came online. By the time Winklevoss and company’s offering was ready, Zuckerberg had already earned the allegiance of practically the entire College clientele. This being Harvard, ConnectU decided...
...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 correctly recognized that the first college facebook site would...
Because neither Narendra nor the Winklevosses are fluent in the requisite programming language, ConnectU had hired salaried employees prior to Zuckerberg’s involvement...
After exhausting all means of remediation available to them at Harvard, including a petition for a hearing with the College’s Administrative Board and a personal audience with President Lawrence H. Summers, the ConnectU team ruled out a lawsuit in a May interview, citing the financial burden such action would necessarily impose. But after more than three months—and a rate of expansion demonstrably slower to that of Zuckerberg’s site—Narendra and the Winklevosses retained the counsel of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett and Dunner, L.L.P for ConnectU LLC. The firm...