Comments on: There’s A Difference Between Being Inspired By and Outright Copying

By: Olavz

Olavz — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:36:22 +0000

I think its “ok” that functions are adapted, but when the layout is so close to copy / paste does it trigger my body into producing the well know “flame hormone”.

By: Preben Liland Madsen

Preben Liland Madsen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:50:19 +0000

They do actually have one good idea implemented on their site that Twitter doesn’t have. Atleast I think it’s good. Replies are shown on their page.

Check for example this site; http://www.qpsa.no/u/mkander you can see others reply beneath. I think that is a good idea, though it lacks the opportunity to hide it and decide whether it shall be hidden on standard etc.

But apart from that, total rip-off. Even the text on the different sites is the totally same, just translated..

By: Øyvind Malin

Øyvind Malin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:27:43 +0000

Well actually Nettby has some sort of similar functionality. Alltough its only available to the users of their extended program (Nettby MAX)

By: Ole Bakstad » Que pasa?!

Ole Bakstad » Que pasa?! — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:18:33 +0000

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By: Magne Thyrhaug

Magne Thyrhaug — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:45:56 +0000

The same thing goes for glugg.no digg.com – except that glugg.no haven’t stolen *that much* of the visual layout from digg as qpsa has from twitter.

They also had a lot of publicity when they started, but they never really hit it off. Wonder why ;-)

By: WTF?! Que pasa?! « Christer’s blog o’ fun

WTF?! Que pasa?! « Christer’s blog o’ fun — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:35:32 +0000

[...] Mats just published a post about the same thing over at his blog! [...]