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November 23, 2005 1:03 PM PST
Harvard newspaper subpoenaed in Facebook suit
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ConnectU has subpoenaed The Harvard Crimson for materials related to the Web site's ongoing lawsuit against better-known competitor Facebook.
The subpoenas ask the newspaper to hand over all its correspondence, e-mails and interview notes with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that are related to the launch of Facebook, said ConnectU co-founder and recent Harvard graduate Tyler Winklevoss.
The Crimson reported this week that its president, Lauren Schuker, would not comply with the subpoenas, which require the newspaper to release all materials by Dec. 1.
According to reports, ConnectU has asked a U.S. district court in Boston to shut down Facebook, which has become enormously popular on college campuses nationwide. The company says about 85 percent of students at nearly 900 colleges using the service.
ConnectU filed the suit against Facebook last year, charging Zuckerberg with stealing the concept for his company from ConnectU's creators.
Winklevoss said that Harvard classmate Zuckerberg had worked for him on a service called Harvard Connection, which eventually morphed into ConnectU. Zuckerberg left Harvard Connection, and the creators of ConnectU learned about Zuckerberg's Facebook from a Crimson article last year, Winklevoss said.
"We were just stunned," he said.
A Facebook representative called the Crimson subpoenas "another development in a case that's been unfounded from the beginning." The company has filed a countersuit charging ConnectU with making false claims.
The Palo Alto, Calif-based Facebook, which debuted almost two years ago, allows students to post and peruse personal profiles on its online classmates directory. ConnectU, based in Greenwich, Conn., launched a few months after Facebook's introduction and has not caught on in the same way.
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Besides... what about all the other clones out there? I can't count how many Facebook-type sites I've seen advertised or have had friends send me invitations to. Did THEY steal the concept from ConnectU, too? I hardly think so.
IANAL
www.gorillaexchange.com are changing the way we use the net.
Where facebook has focused on schools, gorillaexchange.com
empowers the internet user with free personal online stores, a
media port and all the other bells and whistles such as blogs,
forums, videos, music, debates and so on! These two compnaies
are revolutionizing the net. Its web 2.0.
what an
internet user should now expect! Look at http://
www.GorillaeXchange.com for
example.
GorillaeXchange.com has combined existing successful features
such as blogs,
chat, forums, personal profiles, debates, videos, and much more
and
continued where other networks have simply left off.
They seem to have stepped up to the plate by combining two
empowering
features: 1. Giving everyone their own media port that allows
them to choose
their own programming like, uploading their own videos, music,
or creating
their own content and 2. Giving all users a personal store,
allowing them
to sell anything you can imagine.
GorillaeXchange is essentially a one-stop shop.
It seems Yahoo, MSN, MySpace and Friendster have simply
missed the boat!!!
The markets are taking notice and reports are trickling in:
GorillaeXchange
may give them a run for their money as a new niche networks
out there
gaining traction each day.