Shocking: Regator rip off Afrigator… or did they?
Filed Under (Online) by Nic on 04-07-2008
Tagged Under : afrigator, dublicates, Fraud, Mashable, readwriteweb, regator, TechCrunch
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In typical SA blogosphere style yesterday we all (myself included) jumped to the defence of Afrigator and condemnation of Regator.com. I am pleased to say that the issue has been resolved and we all look a bit silly. I am more than happy to openly acknowledge when I make an err in my ways and this was such a moment. The post below is what I wrote yesterday and how it may seem as though Regator ripped off Afrigator, Scott - one of the Regator co-founders - ensures the Afrigator guys and myself that this entire situation is merely a coincidence. What I think we should be focussing on is how the “holy trinity” hahahahaha of the techblogs, Mashable, RRW and TechCrunch quickly picked up on Regator but only RRW picked up on Afrigator. For now, like Mike and Justin have done, I wish Regator the best of luck! And dip my head for a brief moment to show that I have learned my lesson and wont be jumping on bandwagons any longer (I hope). My closing words: Stii, you got it spot on yet again.
UPDATE:
I feel compelled to add my voice (or this blog’s words) the struggle.
Regator.com just opened a beta of their new site. TechCrunch covered it as did ReadWriteWeb and Mashable.
First issue I have with this is that I know that TechCrunch fobbed off the Afrigator guys when they asked for some exposure. Secondly TechCrunch should’ve done their homework and thirdly ReadWriteWeb did cover Afrigator and should be more aware of their content.
Justin and Mike both speak out against this and I think it’s important that we all try and add our voices to this sort of rubbish.
People need to innovate. We all take a little from here, a bit from there but we never duplicate and publicise accordingly. Shocker.
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Hi Nick!
This is Scott, one of the Co-Founders of Regator. I think it’s important for you to know that I have been going back and forth with the nice guys at afrigator all day and this boils down to a misunderstanding.
Regator did not rip anything off of afrigator as both Justin and Mike will now admit after actually getting into our site and taking a look. Bit of an oops on their side but we have no hard feelings, we just want everyone to know what the real deal is.
It does suck that afrigator has not been picked up by some of the big blogs, its a good site serving a great purpose in Africa which should not be discounted in any way, but we can hardly be to blame for Mr. Arrington’s reluctance to write about them… As I am sure you would agree. Let me know if you want to take a look at the site yourself and I’ll get you or anyone else access to see. Cheers!
Hi Scott,
Thanks for popping on to my blog and responding, I imagine you’ve been talking to a lot of people about this.
That’s good, i’m glad you’ve been talking to Justin and the lads. They’re good guys, as I am sure you and your team are.
You know how things can be online. I’ll update the post with more information if you can give it to me?
Let me know, or email me.
Nic, I wanted to thank you personally for your support yesterday. Yip, we all made some pretty big assumptions and we do look like idiots but I wanted to thank you for your passionate support nonetheless.
Dude, anytime!! You guys should rightfully defend what you’ve got, it’s a great product and should be stood up for. I think the main issue here should be that the world should start taking us seriously, because we clearly take ourselves seriously and believe in what we all do, collectively!!