A Disaster: TheWebList.net Rips Popurls Off

August 7, 2006 on 6:33 pm | In TheWebList | 3 Comments

That is a quick little screen shot of a part of Popurls. The site has done relatively well in it’s short life-span. The organization and central home for many popular news stories was a great success. Clearly TheWebList wanted part of the action:

I understand this kind of thing goes on all the time on the internet, but usually there is a little change involved. I mean the color scheme is nearly the same and TheWebList didn’t improve anything. Usually when someone rips digg, they make it a niche type site, or something unique and (usually not) interesting. This rip off is identical, except for the part where they charge for a “your pop” type section. The Popurls idea is a great one, and I wouldn’t mind a niche type Popurls, but this is out of hand.

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1. Why websites rip each other off like that I’ll never know.

   Comment by Amy — August 7, 2006 #

2. In response take a look here and find out more:

   http://theweblist.wordpress.com/2006/08/06/theweblistnet-re-design-and-an-angry-blogger/

   Comment by THEWEBLIST.net — August 9, 2006 #

3. hi folks,
   just my two cents here on the ongoing discussion about recent popurls rip-offs. besides the fact that i feel quite honored for obviously having created a new trend in building hive-mind dashboards i’d say that it really makes a difference whether someone rips my site (n’ code) and puts it into an adsense cluster or at least tries to build his own version based on a new design, other content sources, new search features, etc. and gives at least a little credit in the footer.
   i’m not interested in doing research which site copies what parts of the original popurls just like kevin won’t spend a minute on googling for other digg clones.
   in fact i’m not offering yet another rss-reader but an editorial selection of ever-changing sources to the latest buzz on the web and keeping this up to date through constant observation of the scene is the real work behind it.
   popurls was -first to mind- and as long as it keeps growing every day thanks to all the loyal visitors (20k/d) there will always be a place for copycats in it’s slipstream. but don’t be evil ;)

   Comment by Thomas Marban — August 9, 2006 #

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