DesiMartini is the Indian social network (open for everyone but targeted on Indians by Indians) and last time I covered DM, it looked more obsessed with Orkut but after the update it looks a complete rip-off of Facebook. It is good that they’ve appreciated the excellent design of Facebook but does that really helps DM. I think the idea of original design always rocks. It will be good to see if any good web designer will help DM in making a cool and simple design like FaceBook and to be honest even the Facebook founder accepted the fact that Facebook’s simple design was inspired from the Google’s simple design.
A simple, neat and clean design will certainly help them but ripping off a website’s design and that too of Facebook will get them in big trouble and they may face a law suit as well from Facebook. So instead of getting into troubles of lawsuit, I think they must simply go ahead and hire a good web designer and pay the money to web designer rather than paying it to lawyers or Facebook.
Other Important Articles
- BigAdda another Indian Social Networking Site by big shots!
- DesiMartini – When Desi Meets Social Web!
- ThinkFree and Zoho Apps for FaceBook!
- Review of DropBoks – Nice little file sharing service!
- Has downfall of social networks started or do we have more to come ?
Thilak
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:55 am #
Good to know that something like Facebook has born in India, but I’m disappointed at this sametime
onex
January 29th, 2007 at 8:08 am #
its full of bugs