I'm a little surprised not to see Mashable on the list.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
lol. I like it.
Sammy
· 2 years ago
Lol ...
Do you realy think, there are only 2 Twitter Rip Offs? No, to time, there are exactly 7 ... yes 7 twitter-clones only in germany. and i heard of 6 in Spain, Italy and so on...
Great. That "wamadu.de" did not even bother to create an own design, their logo is an obvious product of the "Web 2.0 logo creatr". :-D But never heard of it (nor about "frazr") before, despite being part of the German cultural sphere... StudiVZ on the contrary is extremely popular, despite of featuring a lengthy list of security holes and producing at least on scandal per month.
xiaonei's most problem is,there are too much ads on it.
lnell
· 2 years ago
Hello, in principle I have no problem being affiliated with a twitter clone. The point is that we are providing a service similar to others, not based on our own original idea, but in many aspects better than what the competition has to offer. Agree or Disagree.
If an airline starts serving the route London New York, which has been served for many years by just one other airline, nobody would speak of a clone. It is just a new service , it envigorates competition and is good for consumers, because there is more choice,downward pressure on prices and an incentive to innovate.
The same thing is happening with all these alleged clones. They all rush to provide basically the same, but with time an increasingly differentiated service.
As far as I am concerned: The major shortcoming of Twitter is, that it is entirely focused un English speaking markets. As far as German language is concerned, we can do better than that.
Cheers lnell
Tim
· 2 years ago
German companies seem to take copy catting to a new level ;)
lnell
· 2 years ago
@Tim, yes, they do, because it is one of the few countries where cloning makes economic sense. Other markets may just be too small.
notnell
· 2 years ago
lnell? Well, that name (username?) pops up quite often with copycats or shall we say rip offs? Invested or is at least involved in yigg (stupid copy cat of digg) and also in wamadu.
But on the other hand, most of the successfull applications just dont spread fast enough into multi-language. Or even stupider, like facebook, allow only people with an .edu adress to signup.
That is just one problem with providing services with such a low barrier to entry. Innovation is bound to increase within this space as result of the competition. We'll see who can actually generate revenue from providing this service. Have any of these companies?
Do these me-too companies have APIs? Separate client apps? Are the twitter clients compatible?
even I am a Chinese from Taiwan.... I feel shame of this...>
Charl
· 2 years ago
How can the Malaysian digg get away with it? Fucking insane!
Jasraj Sandhu
· 2 years ago
As a Malaysian, I am very much ashamed that such mind numbingly blatant rip-off as the Digg.my service actually was implemented over here!
It's my belief that a select portion of Malaysians are quite into 'localizing' almost anything they can. Digg.my is such an example - and yet the sheer audacity of 99.99% total rip-off from every aspect of Digg can only speak volumes of the lack originality / creativity of those people who carried out this farce.
Alex
· 2 years ago
I have one more clone for you :( vkontakte.ru copies everything from the Facebook. I have to note that this service is quite popular in Russia.
Cordobo
· 2 years ago
The Brabblr.com mashup will change the german market of twitter clones by combining all of them ;)
This is funny, I just checked out the Digg Clone you mentioned, and they have Rebranded =)
Direct Quote: 21-10-2007 :// Rebranding We are rebranding Digg.com.my to Layann.com due to (u know why..) We are re-opening the site with a new brand name: LAYANN.COM You will be forwarded to the site. The change isnt 100% complete change yet as there might be some miss replace in branding while our domain needs to be resolve and database needs to be transfered. In the meanwhile you can still enjoy the site with the new re-brand graphics as normal. Thanks.
A2D Webdesign
· 1 year ago
The same thing is happening with all these alleged clones. They all rush to provide basically the same, but with time an increasingly differentiated service.
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Do you realy think, there are only 2 Twitter Rip Offs? No, to time, there are exactly 7 ... yes 7 twitter-clones only in germany. and i heard of 6 in Spain, Italy and so on...
http://neinjaerledigtlos.wordpress.com/2007/05/...
http://jetzt.sueddeutsche.de/texte/anzeigen/377508
http://www.cellswaper.com
http://www.bayanoo.de
As for 6rooms, there's a lot of dodgy stuff going on there. For example, here's Spiderman 3: http://www.6rooms.com/plist/83835/0.html
If an airline starts serving the route London New York, which has been served for many years by just one other airline, nobody would speak of a clone. It is just a new service , it envigorates competition and is good for consumers, because there is more choice,downward pressure on prices and an incentive to innovate.
The same thing is happening with all these alleged clones. They all rush to provide basically the same, but with time an increasingly differentiated service.
As far as I am concerned: The major shortcoming of Twitter is, that it is entirely focused un English speaking markets. As far as German language is concerned, we can do better than that.
Cheers lnell
But on the other hand, most of the successfull applications just dont spread fast enough into multi-language. Or even stupider, like facebook, allow only people with an .edu adress to signup.
That opens the market for rip offs.
Do these me-too companies have APIs?
Separate client apps? Are the twitter clients compatible?
www.komoo.cn
even I am a Chinese from Taiwan.... I feel shame of this...>
It's my belief that a select portion of Malaysians are quite into 'localizing' almost anything they can. Digg.my is such an example - and yet the sheer audacity of 99.99% total rip-off from every aspect of Digg can only speak volumes of the lack originality / creativity of those people who carried out this farce.
Bababian has every detail of the photo page and a pink+blue logo:
http://www.bababian.com/phoinfo/767097965882A95...
Yupoo is another - here's their take on Flickr's explore page:
http://www.yupoo.com/explore/;jsessionid=D11BF9...
Fotolog.com.cn is yet another:
http://jopy.fotolog.com.cn/1739757.html
And, of course, Flickr in English (and other languages):
http://beta.zooomr.com/ (they even took Flickr's exact tagline)
Thanks
Direct Quote:
21-10-2007 :// Rebranding
We are rebranding Digg.com.my to Layann.com due to (u know why..) We are re-opening the site with a new brand name: LAYANN.COM You will be forwarded to the site. The change isnt 100% complete change yet as there might be some miss replace in branding while our domain needs to be resolve and database needs to be transfered. In the meanwhile you can still enjoy the site with the new re-brand graphics as normal. Thanks.