film on Mark Zuckerberg coming soon

chrisxuk said:
Indeed, from the Winklevoss twins IIRC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#ConnectU.com_lawsuit
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I believe Facebook is one of those things that just becomes "it" if you understand my poor explanation. Similar to Google, and Windows I guess. And iPods. They might not be the best but they have something that allows them to massacre the competition.

The thing about Facebook is anyone of us here could've done it. The initial versions of the site weren't complicated, the marketing was by word of mouth etc. I do, however, fail to see how they can justify the valuation on the back of investments.
 
meghatronic said:
I believe Facebook is one of those things that just becomes "it" if you understand my poor explanation. Similar to Google, and Windows I guess. And iPods. They might not be the best but they have something that allows them to massacre the competition.
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I think they're calling it 'Mindshare'.

I agree its all a bit odd but the masses want to be led to the answer rather than finding it for themselves. Apple are the kings - the amount of airtime iWhatevers get compared to market share is phenomenal.
 
The book the film is based on was quite meh. Zuckerburg declined to be interviewed for the book so a lot of assumptions were made about his motivations. But then David Fincher is behind the camera so it'll be worth a rental.
 
chrisxuk said:
Indeed, from the Winklevoss twins IIRC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#ConnectU.com_lawsuit
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I read the story about this, I'm not convinced. They couldn't even convince the university paper that he stole their work, why should we be convinced?

Social networking sites are always going to be similar, they're just ****ed that he abandoned their project and went into work for himself. That doesn't make him any less of a grade A tool - he's used his website ideas for disgusting things (he created a "hot or not" style website using student pictures stolen from the university register, and he's used his website to steal passwords to university email accounts if I recall correctly) but saying he "stole Facebook" is going a little far.
 
Gunni Parker said:
Why would anyone want to watch a film about this? He creats a programme, gets rich. It aint like aliens are going to invade or anything.
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Because it's a successful business story and I am interested in business. Same reason I read a lot of entrepreneurs autobiographies.
 
Killerkebab said:
I read the story about this, I'm not convinced. They couldn't even convince the university paper that he stole their work, why should we be convinced?
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So why did he settle out of court and gave them 10% of the shares in his company at the time?

There must have been some basis in their claims. People don't give away millions of dollars on the basis that the claim is unjustified. After all he is defending the other claim from the guy who says he has a contract for 50% of facebook earnings.
 
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