Comments on: Trustypig.com Rips Off Smartypig.com Design

By: Mind if I borrow your design? — Chris Snider

Mind if I borrow your design? — Chris Snider — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:56:24 +0000

[...] not a 100 percent ripoff, but I’ll tell you the one thing that bothers me the most. Those little lines under the main [...]

By: SmartyPig vs. TrustyPig: When brand enthusiasts attack! : Iowa Blogs

SmartyPig vs. TrustyPig: When brand enthusiasts attack! : Iowa Blogs — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:41:24 +0000

[...] steals SmartyPig website via NerdFlood.com TrustyPig – A Webjacker Gets Pwned via BlawgIT.com TrustyPig.com Rips Off SmartyPig.com design via TroyRutter.com Brand Hijack – Blogging via Getanewbrowser.com TrustyPig – Social Brand Hijack [...]

By: Lava Row, Social media consulting, strategy and web marketing » SmartyPig vs. TrustyPig: When brand enthusiasts attack!

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:45:32 +0000

By: originality at thrillcat editorial

originality at thrillcat editorial — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:51:54 +0000

[...] identical, right down to the logo, layout, and color scheme. Take a look at this post from Troy Rutter, which compares screen shots of the two sites. A group of social networkers has taken on the [...]

By: Joni Mueller

Joni Mueller — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:32:02 +0000

The irony is in TrustyPig.com’s huge, honking banner that screams “Think Outside the Box” … clearly their web designers should have taken heed. I also see that TrustyPig.com has modified their site design ever so slightly. Not enough to be considered out of the wood in my book.

By: BlawgIT - Internet Patent, Trademark and Copyright Issues with Attorney Brett J. Trout, P.C.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:13:29 +0000

[...] One thing companies can do is to enlist others to reprint details of the webjacking, mentioning the webjacker in the title of the article, while taking great care not to link to the webjacker or the webjacked website. Such was the case recently in Des Moines. The successful online savings program SmartyPig was recently webjacked by a Romanian concern calling itself TrustyPig. As you can see, in an effort to undermine the webjacking, all links in this post link to the legitimate SmartyPig cite, rather than to the TrustyPig website. Here is the legitimate SmartyPig website courtesy of Try Rutter’s New Media Original Blog. [...]

By: TrustyPig steals SmartyPig website « nerdflood

TrustyPig steals SmartyPig website « nerdflood — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:03:51 +0000

[...] not stand for it, and we’re hoping some of you non-Iowans won’t stand for it, either. Troy Rutter was the first to let us know about this (I think), and since then, Andy Brudtkuhl has started a [...]

By: Brand Hijack - Blogging | Get A New Browser

Brand Hijack - Blogging | Get A New Browser — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:24:34 +0000

[...] ALT and TITLE AttributesIn my brand hijack post, I used two screenshots from Troy Rutter. In the external links I used our keyword in the TITLE attribute that links to his images and [...]

By: TrustyPig steals web design from SmartyPig | Get A New Browser

TrustyPig steals web design from SmartyPig | Get A New Browser — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:21:55 +0000

[...] photos courtesy Troy Rutter [...]

By: Michael Ferrari

Michael Ferrari — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:52:58 +0000

Troy,

Thanks for the post. It is truly amazing to the extent some folks go to rip-off the work of others.

Thanks!

Mike Ferrari, SmartyPig co-founder