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...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...
...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...
...Zuckerberg really is heir to Gates’ throne, then the Winklevoss-Narendra tri-fecta doesn’t seem to stand a chance, in court or on the net. Thefacebook is 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...
...first read about him as a super-serious economist, but he came across as very down to earth in his speech, the way he made a mistake and also joked about thefacebook and everything,” said Anna K. Swenson...
...They’re going to be a handful of people who will be spending a significant amount of their summer working on thefacebook,” Hughes said. “It’s a fairly informal affair. … [Site Creator] Mark [E. Zuckerberg ’06] and [Executive Vice President of Team Management] Dustin [A. Moskovitz ’06] and the new hires will share a place in California, do some programming, do some relaxing...