[FM Discuss] Fwd: Facebook sues social media site with ‘book’ in name.

[Michael McAndrew]

That's why you called it flossmanuals, not flossbook, right adam?


On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:54 AM, helen varley jamieson <
helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:

>  good grief! i wonder if they will come after Booki next ???
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> Facebook sues social media site with ‘book’ in name.
>
> Teachbook.com has two employees and fewer than 20 users signed up for
> its free Web community. The site has yet to officially launch.
>
> But the Northbrook, Ill.-based company, which provides tools for
> teachers to manage their classrooms and share lesson plans and other
> resources, has been thrust into the spotlight by social networking giant
> Facebook, which sued the start-up for using “book” in its name.
>
> “We’ve been sitting here scratching our heads for the last couple of
> days,” Teachbook’s managing director, Greg Shrader, told the Tribune on
> Wednesday. “We’re trying to understand how Facebook, a
> multibillion-dollar company, feels this small enterprise in Chicago is
> any type of threat.”
>
>
> http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/08/facebook-says-it-owns-rights-to-the-name-book.html
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