I wish it was as easy as you make it sound.  I've been trying to think of something innovative for about 20 years now.  The closest I came was a computer case/air cleaner.

What are you babbling on about? Isa's friend wants a musician-focused network.

Building something like that is an entirely different prospect to taking on Zuckerberg.

> Also, the guy who ended up owning facebook (Mark Zuckerburg) is not
> necessarily the guy who thought it it up or built it in the first place.

Um... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook#thefacebook.com

Of course, if you do want Facebook to be history, it's not that hard - as I'm sure I've said plenty of times before, just provide me with a couple dozen clones and it'll soon be lying next to Geocities...

That's not really the story they tell in the movie! On the other hand what popular software/service wasn't stolen?

Uh yes, I thought he meant a Facebook competitor that he possibly intended to monetize in some fashion. Still the project sounds dodgy to me. He 'loves computer systems' but doesn't really code? So he bought some off-the-shelf package instead? How could he evaluate it? 'He loves musicians/is one and knows thousands' might be a better starting point. Whatever.

Steve Jobs shoplifted his turtlenecks.