Facebook is one of the few very successful social networking, business sites in the internet. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO-facebook is just 23 yrs of age is regarded the world's youngest self-made billionaire by forbes 2008 edition with a net worth of around 1.5 billion USD. Mr. Zuckerberg was a student at the Harvard University, when he launched facebook on the internet from his dorm room. It was created for de contacts of the students at Harvard nd was marketed for the neighbouring universities. Today facebook has over 37 million users world wide competing the famous orkut. Right from its launch, facebook has always been under speculation for few indisciplinary acts.
Controversies against Facebook
Three of Zuckerberg's classmates(der was an Indian among the 3 classmates) filed a case against Zuckerberg stating that he stole their source code ,design nd business idea when he was hired to do the code completion for their site, ConnectU. Zuckerberg however denied dis nd strongly improvised dat facebook was personally coded by him without any partners, nd he did not 
infringe any copyrighted ideas. Adding to dis case was Zuckerberg's other Harvard mate Aaron J Greenspan's(1 yr senior to Zuckerberg in univ) statement dat, it was his idea of the houseSYSTEM, that was featured in facebook. houseSYSTEM(yet another social networkin site) was on floor in the Harvard university even before de start of facebook. Zuckerberg had frequently plotted ideas from Mr.Greenspan abt his houseSYSTEM, which was quite evident from the email conversation dat Mr.Greenspan put forward to the Newyork Times. This shuld make us remember de more famous scandal in de silicon valley when Bill Gates nd his friend Paul Allen copied a version of the BASIC programming language from two professors to jump-start a company which eventually turned out to be the most powerful firm in the software industry. I guess, may b this is a "Harvard Tradition" to succeed.(above: Mark Zuckerberg, below: Aaron J Greenspan)
Now Greenspan has closed down his houseSYSTEM site and has started CommonRoom, an yet another social networking, business site. Although CommonRoom has just 1500 users compared to de massive 37 million users for facebook, Greenspan has not given up his idea of social networking. He is about to start his next company Qubescape with a new partner. Greenspan wrote an
autobiography(unpublished) which is supposed to explain his painful times at Harvard in creating houseSYSTEM nd even abt his unfaithful fellowman Zuckerberg. It is obviously bizzare for a guy to write an autobiography at his early 20s, but it shows the agony nd pain dat he would hav experienced. Greenspan often quotes dat he had learnt a lot in his life nd has no love for thoughts of becuming a serial enterpreneur in the silicon valley. Mr Greenspan is said to be a strong believer of the phrase "Wait for long enough nd the truth wil cume out".
Watever may b de case, Mark has earned a ransom amt of 1.5 billion USD nd had earlier turned down the famous yahoo bidding of 900 million USD.
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