March 19th, 2007

Ridiculous: One Digg Clone Takes Legal Action Against Another Digg Clone

File this under “ridiculous.” Digg clone SuperGu has sent a cease & desist letter to (open source) Digg clone Pligg alleging a number of copyright infringements. Among the complaints: SuperGu is claiming ownership to ajax effects, sidebars, login boxes, “read more” links, navigation tabs, the expression “Powered by”, tags, the RSS icon and other common web… → Read More

January 11th, 2007

If You Copy Digg, At Least Thank Them

go2web2, normally an even tempered blog, points out that new startup SuperGu copies everything about Digg except their name and goes off on them a bit. And to add insult to injury, they say it was “inspired by Meneame, Del.icio.us and Reddit,” ignoring Digg completely. The screen shots do look just about identical – SuperGu hasn’t just copied the Digg idea but the look and… → Read More