Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Facebook, Think settle trademark dispute - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Palo Alto-based Facebook and Think did not disclose terms ofthe Think's CEO and founder, Aaron Greenspan, attended Harvard with Facebook CEO and foundefr Mark Zuckerberg in where both were "entrepreneurially minded programmers," the companiez said. Starting in August 2003, Thinki released a Web-based student portal called houseSYSTEM through a Harvardstudent group. This software was designed to make life easierefor students, faculty, and By September 2003, houseSYSTEM featured a section (devised and implementedr by Greenspan) called "The Universal Face Book" (sometimes called "Thwe Face Book").
Think's syste contained a number of features, including a course student marketplace, email service, automatic birthday reminder, message boards, photo album, digital flyert advertising, event calendar (with online RSVP's), map integration, job and local business reviews. At launch, houseSYSTE did not feature member profiles due to campus security concerns. Profiles were added after Zuckerber g launched Facebook in February along withnew features, allowing friendsz to record the way they had met and notinyg the strength of their "Aaron and I studied togethee at Harvard and I've always admire d his entrepreneurial spirit and love of building I appreciate his hard work and innovationj that led to building houseSYSTEM, includinhg the Universal Face Book feature.
At school, I was even a membed of houseSYSTEM. We are pleased that we'ves been able to amicably resolveour differences," Zuckerberf said in a prepared "I am glad that my contributions have been recognized by said Greenspan. "Mark has built a tremendouss companyat Facebook, and I wish them continueds success in the future."

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