if it's a popular site, then that means it did something right, so they try to clone since they don't have enough imagination to create their own popular site.
you can often make money selling the clone. also, if you setup the clone to be similar to the original (similar style domain, appearance, etc), it could fool people into thinking you're the original site On 6/26/07, unimatrixZxero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Taking this slightly off-topic: Why do people do clones of highly > successful sites? I mean is it really worth it? In dukudu's case I can > see the point Twitter isn't localized. But in general why should it > be a good idea? > > On Jun 24, 6:25 pm, "Jonathan Langevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sharp looking site, shame it's in german :-) > > > > On 6/24/07, xhoch2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Maybe this is interesting for someone. > > > Dukudu.de - a german twitter clone - was made with CakePHP. > > > The service was mentioned on TechCrunch because it is listed for sale > > > on ebay: > > >http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/126640006/ > > > > > In my opinion a very good reference for CakePHP. > > > > >http://www.dukudu.de/ > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
