This is a fact.

was a good movie :thumbsup

i had the same idea before thefacebook.com was launched, but without programming skills my site was ran from a vB script.

it had different forum sections for each high school and sub forums inside there for indepth discussions, less than 50 people registered, and i couldnt get people to use it, i had hopes it would replace most chat with msn messenger with private messages

would have been awesome to know what was going on at school for those who wern't in the "in" crowd, if there was a fight it would have been posted about etc.

Read the book that inspired the movie and then try to say the same thing about the twins and Divya, without Zuckerberg their idea wouldn't have ever gone anywhere.

With our luck he would miss. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Cue Damian to quote more of my posts. :thumbsup

i enjoyed it.

I'm not always in the mood for movies like that, but I'm glad people make movies like that because that's the way things really go down.

Almost every large company has some awful fucked up story behind the story where success was built on the backs of people royally fucked over. There's no justice for these people, there's no moral tale.

DateDoc posted a really good read, the original brain trust w/ HarvardConnect fucked up by laying everything out on the table to someone when they had nothing in writing to prevent this guy from walking away w/ their ideas. They invited a fox into the hen house.

... and as much as they feel they were screwed and fucked over, really they weren't fucked that bad. I wouldn't want it to happen to me, but they didn't have a company stolen from them, just a concept. They didn't lose their life savings, they didn't lose their homes or their livelyhood. The only thing that makes it seem titanic is how huge facebook has become, and it has become that way based on how Zuckerberg has evolved and grown the concept, which ended in a vastly different end product.

The thing about the web is that even though Zuckerberg fucked them so he would get a jump on the launch, if you build a better mousetrap in the end it won't matter.

True dat buddy clam.
:thumbsup

He's not the only one.
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At least the four guys featured in the film who sued him walked away with money.

Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss got a fat check and probably more than they would of made from it. Co founder Eduardo Saverin came out with some sort of settlement that was never disclosed. But sure it wasn't just getting his name back on the top of the site as co founder.

It's interesting how you describe the movie. It seems like an interesting battle over profits and who gets a bigger share.

50.... :)