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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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Implementation, not ideas

As someone involved with such a large project, I just felt I should clarify that it’s not “ideas”, as such, people shouldn’t take/use.. but implementations of ideas. These guys pretty much took your implementation of an idea, which is wrong, but there’s nothing at all wrong with them making a site based on the same “idea” as long as their implementation is unique.

Actually, I’ve just now seen you talk about this briefly on David’s weblog, so ignore this message, but I’ll leave it up here anyway! :)


 

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