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Badly copied idea is worse than no idea II.

Published at April 12th, 2007 under Uncategorized

This spot is a sequel of the original post about czech Digg clone Linkuj.

Absence of understanding what are you copying is the biggest feature of Polish Twitter clone Robisz.pl

Here are details:

Usability: if you sumbit wrong login/password, nothing happens, no error message
Desing: design is a completely Twitter rip-off, but much more ugly
Acesibility: in settings, hints under text fields are colored with #DCDCDC and sized 9px.
Coding: messages does not refresh automaticaly by AJAX script, you have to manually refresh page to see what’s new
Development: there is no limit for character count in one message – so further implemetnation of SMS will be tough
Privacy: there is no chance to limit your updates to be ‘friends only’ – so using service as a private channel is impossible
and finally, basic idea – there is only way to submit your messages: via submit form on the site! No SMS, no instant messaging. The whole idea of the site, ‘Co robisz?’ – ‘What do you do?’ is killed from the very beginning. As I said, badly copied idea is worse than no idea at all.

Credits for initial review and introducing the site to AntyWeb.pl

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Kamil Nicieja, on April 12th, 2007 at 7:09 pm Said:

I think you’re right. Robisz.pl is half-baked…

But there are other sites based on Twitter’s idea. http://blip.pl, http://thoro.pl/co.robisz and http://ibogg.pl

PS. Sorry for my English.
Misha, on April 12th, 2007 at 8:40 pm Said:

no need to excuse for English, mine is far from perfect

blip.pl is not ready yet, ibogg has the same problem – only replace web form with gadu-gadu interface. thoro.pl/co.robisz is the most advanced, as there are three ways to add messages, includining universal jabber protocol. But none of them allows all three key ways – web, IM and SMS.
Kamil Nicieja, on April 12th, 2007 at 9:14 pm Said:

I’m programer at thoro.pl and I can say, that we’re working upon sending messages from mobile phone.

I only worry, that our project is know less that half-baked robisz.pl or not done blip.pl.
Misha, on April 12th, 2007 at 9:39 pm Said:

OK, let me know when your project is fully ready to review
jansegers, on March 17th, 2008 at 3:25 pm Said:

Thanks for mentionning information about these Polish microblogs !

I believe microblogs are changing society profoundly, because information can easily be past through on a world wide scale at a pace never seen before.