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The copycats respond

Dear Josh Petersen,

thank you very much for your email.

Based on a market research we decided to redesign our website 2 weeks ago because of the fact that a large proportion of the German users don`t understand our original idea: “to match people and their goals and help them to achieve these goals”. The average German user is not familiar with concepts like technorati, meetup, et al. As a conclusion we will improve the user guidance and add more serious content. A comparison between your and our website has shown that a few users see similarities concerning the homepage but not concerning second level sites. Nevertheless, the redesigned website will be very much different on all levels and since we are already working on the new design you are kindly invited to visit our website in 2-3 weeks but please understand that we donĀ“t see the necessity for any kind of “reporting”.

Best Regards from Germany
David Kuczek / Dr. Berit Ernst



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More copies

Well. Well. If imitation is the best form of flattery then Josh you have one more on your hand or should I say ‘list’. See, http://www.aimi.cn/ and this one is Chinese.

Oh! BTW notice how good they are at Photoshop to remove the 43things logo and put theirs (Sarcasm intended).

What’s so interesting is that the same guys copied Flickr too @ Yupoo.com.

Good company

It’s flattering to be the fake Gucci hand bag next to the fake Rolex watch.

It is too bad there isn’t more momentum for working together, as we’d love to get 43 Things out in more countries, but just don’t have the localization skills in house, or the budget for speculatively expanding. It is flattering that there is interest.

But as we add new features and new sites they could go into all the new markets. As it is, not only will aimi.cn have to add the features, they’ll be coding them in ASP (which I’m sure is licensed!).


 

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