{"id":768,"date":"2007-07-26T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-26T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T06:39:00","slug":"facebook-faceoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/768-facebook-faceoff.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Faceoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ConnectU alleges that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg has stolen their ideas and code, but the Massachusetts Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock asked for hard evidence if the case was to continue.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook defense council lashed out at the ConnectU case, saying that the company is using this case and subsequent media attention to build its own profile and gain a stronger position in the market.<\/p>\n<p>The founders of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ConnectU<\/a> have been given two weeks to build a stronger case with more evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The judge requested hard evidence, and according to a CNN discussion he made it clear that &quot;dorm room chitchat does not make a contract&rdquo; and that concrete facts about the stealing of code and the contractual agreement with Facebook is what will be needed.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said that they are pleased with the outcome of the hearings, and that they continue to disagree with allegations that its CEO stole any ideas or code to build the social networking site.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Facebook blog, the website has 30 Million active members, growing by over 100 000 new members per day. ConnectU does not really feature on the global social networking scene with around 100 000 members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is facing an intellectual property right lawsuit from ConnectU, but the judge seems unimpressed with the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdorm room chitchat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 evidence.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}