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ConnectU was a full-fledged site at one point. It wasn't vaporware. In fact, a feature they created called Social Butterfly to allow facebook users to export t
by jeremymims 16y ago
ConnectU was a full-fledged site at one point. It wasn't vaporware.
In fact, a feature they created called Social Butterfly to allow facebook users to export their data caused facebook to sue them. And it resulted in facebook storing e-mail addresses as images for many years to prevent anyone from easily switching services.
It's all well and good to say that we'll never know what ConnectU might have been. But we do know that the principle person expected to build a big piece of it went on to execute on that idea almost perfectly.
Are they entitled to anything? None of us really know for sure since we only have small pieces of hearsay. The courts will decide.
- marknutter 16y agoIf Facebook wasn't so wildly successful, the Twins wouldn't bother suing Zuckerberg. It's sour grapes and lust for gold.
- stanleydrew 16y agoThis is really interesting. Being only tangentially aware of the entire Facebook saga (I haven't even seen the movie yet) I had thought the Winklevosses were just guys with an idea. I don't know where I got that impression though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU
- dstein 16y agoConnectU was launched after Facebook. Their original idea, as explained in the movie is that "Harvard Connection" was a dating site for Harvard students.
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- jeremymims 16y agoThe movie portrays this (and many other things) inaccurately.