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Last month, Zuckerberg faced allegations that he stole the idea for an online Harvard social directory. Three Pforzheimer seniors asked Zuckerberg to help program ConnectU, a site similar to thefacebook.com that launched last month. Zuckerberg briefly worked for the site but soon left—after which the facebook debuted...
Zuckerberg denies the allegations of intellectual property theft, saying the ConnectU creators’ claims are baseless...
Thinking his involvement to be nothing more than that of an occasional contributor and citing more-important computer science projects and a series of mishaps, Cameron Winklevoss said Zuckerberg fell out of contact and completed little of the work expected of him by ConnectU...
...semantic” distinction, as the ConnectU owners called it, was lost upon them on Feb. 8 when they learned of thefacebook.com’s launch in The Crimson—a perceived insult they claim was only aggravated when they discovered the actual status of their site...
...that, according to Gao, is precisely the fundamental idea pioneered by Narendra that sets apart both ConnectU and theface book.com from other connection websites and programs, like classmates.com and Friendster...