ActiveRain.com v. Move.com: The Nagging Question
By: Brian Brady,
Jumbo Mortgage Broker,
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RSS FeedPosted: Thursday, September 27th, 2007, 11:16 pm MST
Category: Blogging,Technology
I can’t seem to get this out of my head. Call it the Dustin effect.
If Dustin was hired by Move.com as the Director of Interactive Marketing, and was teaching Realtors how to blog way back in early 2007, why are the Active Rain boys surprised that Move.com was developing a blog platform? What made them think that Move.com wouldn’t proceed with that product if they didn’t purchase Active Rain?
and yet…
Dustin was openly critical of Active Rain when he first joined (December, 2006) . Why would Move.com make an offer for Active Rain when its Director of Interactive Marketing had little good to say about the platform?
Our story so far: Trying to keep up with developments in the ActiveRain/Move saga? These are all the BloodhoundBlog posts to date:
- ActiveRain discovers that the Code of Web 2.0 is the Code of the West: Do unto others before them others do it unto you
- Active Rain Wuz Robbed
- ActiveRain.com v. Move.com: The Nagging Question
- An open letter to the owners of ActiveRain: Show us the contracts
- ActiveRain.com v. Move.com: Where’s Caleb?
- The voices of bitter experience: ActiveRain’s petition against Move, Inc., is a heart-breaking sob story with no legal merit
- You can view or download mirrored copies of ActiveRain’s complaint and Move, Inc.’s response at BloodhoundBlog
- Activerain.com v. Move.com: The Duplicity at Activerain.com
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no comment.
I can’t speak to anything specifically about Dustin’s work at Move, Inc., but all of the Move.com weblogs are built on WordPress Multi-User. Jay and Jonathan have played with the Realtor.com blogs, but what I’ve seen there suggests nothing in the way of innovation beyond WPMU. I’m sure they’ve customized the code for their own uses, but not in any way that pops out.
There’s more, and I left this out of my post: There is nothing technologically complicated about weblogging software. Everything is well understood, and coding a weblogging platform is more about vigor than rigor. I wrote a weblogging platform we use internally in half-a-day. I don’t think AR has a case of any sort, but it is obvious that Move, Inc., did not borrow technology from ActiveRain.
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Chicken. JK- thanks for the wink
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