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Cork’d sold

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

What started as a side project for Dan Benjamin and Dan Cederholm on a Mac Mini in a collocation facility has grown to be one of the largest online communities for wine tasting. In about one year the site amassed about 20.000 users. A lovely design paired with a big community got the site quite far.

This week, the creators of Cork’d announced the sale of the site to Gary Vaynerchuk, the host of WLTV. A really nice outcome for everyone, especially since Gary seems to be a guy who understands the values of good design and a community. If you haven’t seen him before, watch this little summary - it’s worth it.

Congratulations to they guys from the iceberg!

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LogoMaid: Simplebits Logo Ripoff

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Last year in December, Dan Cederholm launched a new website design for his business and weblog, Simplebits, along with a brand new (and great looking) logo.

Simplebits Logo Ripoff

Now, LogoMaid is selling a logo bearing a striking similarity to Dan’s on their website for US$ 199,-. They even have the audacity to call the logo “restyling”. Read the discussion on Flickr or John Gruber’s post on the topic. Paul Viluda, the owner of LogoMaid, even accused Dan Cederholm of in turn ripping his own logo off from LogoMaid and threatened a lawsuit against SimpleBits.

Dan’s logo is not the first they ripped off. Panic’s Unison logo is among the stolen designs, as well as Apple’s logo (now removed). Hopefully this post helps spreading the word that LogoMaid consists only of dirty thieves!

Good luck, Dan!

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