Posts Tagged with ‘Daring-Fireball’

Is Web 2.0 Out of Original Ideas?

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

The most heated bitchmeme of the past few days appears to be the flap over one of the featured apps on Google App Engine, called HuddleChat. Since removed from the site, Daring Fireball was the first to note that it bore a striking resemblance to 37signals' Campfire.
Google detractors, of course, sided with 37signals, and wondered how Google engineers could have copied something so blatantly. Google fans, however, pointed out that there are only so many ways to build a persistent [...]