April 19, 2008

“German Startup Community Makes Us Proud Once Again: Freundefeed” filed under: playing Lego — Martin @ 10:46 am

Michael Arrington is right – regrettably:

You haven’t arrived until your web application has a German clone, it seems. Web innovation in that country too often distills down to “copy/paste innovation.”

And now, Freundfeed, which doesn’t appear to be a joke. Not only is it a ripoff of the FriendFeed name, they also use the same logo. The service hasn’t launched yet, but I’m willing to make an educated guess and say that it will likely rip off the rest of FriendFeed, too.

Via German Startup Community Makes Us Proud Once Again: Freundefeed

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3 comments »

1. Hi, hast Recht. Echt peinlich. Werdet Ihr ja ändern… Off topic: “Playing Lego” ist mal ne kreative Kategorie. Komm mal in Twitter solange SLife Mittagsschlaf macht. ;-)

   comment by Alex — April 19, 2008 @ 1:10 pm

2. I know the guys. They work hard at the moment to be a copy tiger (aka: to be bigger than a copy cat). And they are working on a new logo, also.

   comment by Joachim Graf — April 21, 2008 @ 7:57 am

3. I think there is a difference between a pure copy cat and an improved copy cat. Innovation also means continuously improving a product. Some copy cats are innovative, others are not. They just copy.

   comment by Martin — April 21, 2008 @ 9:12 am

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