German Startup Community Makes Us Proud Once Again: Freundefeed

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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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.

This guy is either the founder or an investor. Thanks for the tip, Jodi.

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