Sideways Society

Facebook paid the founders of ConnectU $65 million to settle lawsuits
accusing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg of stealing the idea for the
wildly successful social-networking Web site, according to a law firm’s
marketing brochure. Lawyers in the heavyweight fight had expended great
effort to keep the settlement secret, but ConnectU’s former lawyers from
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver Hedges published the amount in a firm
advertisement trumpeting the firm’s prowess. The disclosure was
apparently inadvertent.