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Shanghai based ZOpen, the provider of MyTodo, has launched Everydo. The service is a collaborative project management system. It covers all features you will ever need in your team project, such as managing your todo list, tracking every member’s progress, etc. The best way to get an idea of the system is to watch the demo videos.
Everydo joins Mangbar in the market of online collaboration platform. Reliability is more important than innovation in this market. Everydo’s basic features are based on Basecamp. More features will be added according to feedbacks.
The service is going to adopt a freemium business model. In the third day of public beta, they have got the first paid user. Congrats!
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Didn’t you mean: Basecamp gets a Chinese clone…? That’s just amazing. They’re running one month behind Basecamp’s development cycle though, as they tweaked the UI some more.
jeezus. why can’t people come up with original design?! It looks exactly like basecamp, except translated into chinese!
That’s because 37siganls is so wonderful as to become a standard. The reason we don’t call it a clone is because learning and tweaking is better then wandering with nothing.
That’s just plain disturbing Luyi Chen. You do know, that the power of Web 2.0 is innovation, not repeating or even blunt copying. EveryDo adds no innovation to the market. I love the blog, but do expect a more critical approach, instead of congratulating them for their first paid customer.
Is this guy serious, this is nothing more than theft. When and how is this going to stop?! EVERYONE should be outraged by this!
Everydo is base on plone/pyhton instead Basecamp’s ROR, i think it’s different.
thank you luyi,thanks for share china web.
@jukke
So? The hardest part of creating an application is getting together your ideas into something that works and has a great user experience. The technology behind it is secondary, the end user cannot tell the difference if you used Python or Ruby.
@everyone else
If you like a particular website so much and you want to add features to it, why not write a Firefox or IE plugin that adds that functionality to it? You can get credit for the plugin, and if it’s popular enough, maybe the original site will let you develop your feature directly for their site.
If you want a Chinese version, why not contact the authors of the site and offer to help them translate their site? I’m sure they’d be happy for the help.
If you like a website’s design and user interaction, and you want to know how to implement it, by all means copy the CSS, the HTML and the Javascript. Create your own backend that makes it work. That’s a great learning exercise, and you could probably use the lessons from that experience in your ORIGINAL, INNOVATIVE app. BUT, for god’s sake don’t try to make money on it.
Maybe none of this matters to the “chinese web2.0″ market. xiaonei copied facebook directly and became very successful. the same guys copied twitter and made fanfou. Great technical work went into these copies, I’m sure. It’s not easy to create a fast scalable website.
I can’t put my finger on it, but there’s something about that kind of “innovation” that just feels so cheap.
I guess it’s ok though. Until people here can figure out how to really innovate, the creative ideas and design will all funnel in from outside of China, and tech companies here will always just be a place for outsourcing, and never a place to be looked up to in the way the Silicon Valley was.
I have been bugging 37Signals with email suggestions to provide a Chinese interface for two years now–the responses are always like this: “we don’t comment on projects that are in the works, but we will consider your suggestion.” Well, it looks like 37Signals underestimated or doesn’t understand the Chinese market and have “considered” my suggestion for far too long. And because the design team I manage don’t speak English, they might have just lost their first customer. Their loss is in large part their fault!
[...] This is disturbing to many. But most Chinese Web 2.0 C2C (”copy to China”) startups don’t see any problem with this kind of behavior. They point out that most of these copied tools are proven and popular concepts in developed markets—the U.S., Europe, Israel—but have no Chinese language version. Or they note that the true power of Web 2.0 is precisely that applications can be mashed and tweaked and improved. Twitter wasn’t the first short public messaging service, but its success—its massive user numbers, anyway—isn’t just due to its sleek design and its function set. Its success owes to what’s happening under the hood of the application. Twitter has had to overcome numerous scaling issues, and in doing so has contributed back to the Ruby on Rails community greatly. (Ruby on Rails is an application framework popular with many Web 2.0 companies). [...]
I’m already tired of Basecamp clones. I’m glad I was able to find an app that is different and more functional http://www.wrike.com