For Southern Californians heading down to Mexico is a time honored tradition. Do donkey shows really exist? What happens when you put an M-80 firecracker in a trash can? Just how much does it cost to get out jail?
These are all important questions that can only be answered south of the border.
During one of these trips you may also notice that Latin America sometimes borrows from various American intellectual properties. Be it on a shirt, a mug or that wonderful pottery. For the most part its nickel and dime stuff, nothing too major. I’d assume even the most hardened Disney exec would get a chuckle out of the seeing Donald Duck across a T-shirt proclaiming “One Tequila, Two Tequila, Three Tequila, Floor…”
However the web is a different story. Here knock offs can reach millions and even make some serious cash. Companies like Google and Yahoo have fought almost to the death to dominate various International locations and spaces there. Now Twitter is getting its own Spanish “re-imagining”, this time from a 19-year-old Argentinian developer named Martin Lio.
His site Birddi is of course a complete lift of Twitter. Everything from the colors, the logo and more. They even put @Ev on their landing page! However for being just a clone it’s actually pretty impressive. Sure it lacks some of the polish the Twitter UI has received recently, but overall it’s not a complete hack job.
We can only assume Twitter will send some nasty letters about this. Martin will then re-skin the site to be less “stealy” and hopefully continue on building his little birdie.
If you like you can follow or seguir me on Birddi. I’m really trying to get ~salsasaturday trending over there.
(Via TechCrunch)
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