Facebook: Breaking Down the Walls

[paulj]

The following is republished from the Tech Times #169. As of July 10th, Facebook had thirty million active members, one of whom is me. In the past two weeks, it seems like half my active contacts have joined the social networking site, including professionals who wouldn’t be caught dead on, say, MySpace. So what makes Facebook [...]
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[doctordew]

Right now facebook is in a serious spot. The guy's being sued for apparently stealing the idea from yahoo. I can't remember the whole story, but the basics were this site was created a few years ago. Then just recently it became popular so they tried to buy it. When that didn't work they sued him. I think it's pretty dumb because the only reason they are seuing is because it was successfull. They wouldn't have cared if it failed.

BTW I just noticed the story on this is on another thread here. You can read it to get the whole picture.