studivz is pathetic

im from Austria myself, but im not only passively watching the development myself, im actually actively encouraging those of my friends who only have a studivz account to create a facebook account

as soon as they realize that at least half of their friends is on facebook already and studivz is just a cheap german shit version of fb theyll probably quit their studivz accounts sooner or later anyway

nice one

We all know the German blogger scene lacks grammar AND content quality, but do we really need to put that out to the world on Techcrunch ?

Thanks – Berlitz offers great courses, might also help to read a book or a decent newspaper / magazine. Try the Economist – might also give you some background for your “journalism” work.

Actually, i think Arrington IS a lawyer by training…

StudiVZ CEO Markus Riecke made this statment today:

“The futile effort [made by FB] to sue and damage StudiVZ before an american court only demonstrates Facebook’s claim to build a global monopoly for social networks. This is presumptous and will be unmasked quickly.”

Wow! The man who leads the largest SN in Germany just had an epiphany. I guess that he will soon be leading an outcry of German youngsters against the evil forces of Zuckerberg’s Facebook just as his predecessors have tricked university students into the platform by claiming that they should use for academic exchange (sic!).

Trade-dress is pretty hard to pull off — it comes down to actual HTML code as to if something is actually the same or is different.

Please stop being the judge and jury — be a journalist and get off your crack pipe.

Also if this is the new facebook, will they have a legal claim for sites that continue to use the old facebook look and feel.

Personally from what I have heard, this new facebook looks like crap.

I think this is the beginning of the rise and fall of facebook.

Seriously people, they stole the CSS and PHP to build VZ! Come on! If I steal some BMW from the factory floor, and slap a WMB label on it; should I not be sued?

I hope Facebook lawyers them into the ground or until the VZ network is sold at a loss. Then I hope they go on a blood thirsty rampage to sue, shut down, or absorb all the knock-off sites around the world.

First Europe wants to be a bratty teenager complaining about American actions around the world (granted with some validity) but love the fact that they were and are protected by our security blanket, which, btw, prevented everyone in all of Europe from speaking Russian and living in misery. Now they want to whine about being sued for stealing ideas, instead of actually coming up with their own ideas.

Don’t steal someone else’s stuff and claim it as your own. It really does not help your image! And I don’t think Germans have to be reminded of their image.

Waste of time IMO.