TechF*cked

This is a story I had heard about two years ago from a Harvard grad I am friends with (who also mentioned Mark Zuckerberg was one of the biggest pricks on campus (WAS one, not HAS one).

Apparently, Zuckerberg was hired to develop some coding for the similar college start up, ConnectU.com. Shortly after his term of employment with ConnectU, Zuckerberg had thousands of fellow Harvard students signed up for his very own website, TheFaceBook.com. The choppy story I heard two years ago was that two brothers were the main investors/creators of ConnectU, both of whom are heirs to quite a large family fortune, so basically they were dragging the lawsuit out as long as possible, in hopes that Facebook would gain national notoriety. Well, it has, and now Zuckerberg is going to have to pay.

I would think there would be some type of settlement in the near future, but if anyone were to refute such an attempt, it would Zuckerberg. The timing of everything is too sketchy for this not to work in the favor of ConnectU. However, I can’t help but call ConnectU out as a bunch of morons for not taking advantage of the publicity they are getting. Their Alexa ranking has jumped this week since the news of the settlement, yet when I go to the University of Miami’s page on the website (where I happen to be studying Law), it brings up a database error. Talk about a wasted opportunity!