Hey Robin! If you are too lazy to build your own forms at least make sure you change the details!
One of our friends checked out the sign-up form at Plugg.eu and noticed that one of the examples listed our Office address. He checked the source code and sure enough; Plugg copied our Start-up Rally form!
That street address example is our street address!
That Postal code is our postal code!
And just to remove any doubt, this is what it says in the source code:
Don’t you know: Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources!
But seriously: Plugg is a great event and if you are considering going we can highly recommend it. The sign-up form for the Plugg Startup Rally is here and ticket sales are here. And check out their excellent site here too.
PS: just so you know, Plugg and The Next Web are media partners and ♥ each other!
First off, has nothing to do with TechCrunch.
Second, form was built by an external developer, I wouldn’t even know how to hide anything as my developer skills match those of a monkey.
Third, now that I checked: you guys stole the Plugg form I used for last year (I’ve just noticed that now). So it’s kind of funny that you accuse me of something you started in the first place.
Of course! We don’t copy/paste but we DO listen to feedback. :-)
Meeooww!
Well, I can honestly say that as far as I know we stole our form from Techcrunch. And as I wrote: “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources!” or in this case “Creativity is knowing how to hide your source code!.
But if you can find that original form I will happily blog about it AND apologize publicly.
Cool, we should allow that as well :)
This is funny :). I guess all Startup Rally forms have kind of the same questions, which is good, because Startups can copy paste their forms for all events.
I don’t think we copied your startup form last year, because we had a form already in 2006 (which was probably inspired by DEMO or something like that :) )
Shameless ;)
Hahah great blogpost.
Hey Roy, jij bent toch niet Roy Tomeij die ik weer ken via Thijs Cadier en Ralph Timmermans? Damn :D
small world?
Hey! That’s our address too!
hehe
Toch wel :) Zit samen met Thijs op de 4e verdieping van het adres in bovenstaande post. Kom gerust langs als je in A’dam bent, koffie (of bier) staat warm/koud ;)
Small world indeed!
Jij doet ook leuke dingen met Kalydo zag ik? Ziet er heel strak uit allemaal!
Spotted this a day or two ago and thought it was deliberate :)
http://www.jackthorogood.com/jackthorogood/2009/01/cut-paste.html
Perhaps you could take inspiration from email and call this an ‘Apply All’ feature?
And you just changed your title, making my first remark obsolete.
Man I’m going to have a field day finding the old Plugg form and shoving your face in it :)
Inspiration, that’s the word Boris was looking for!
By the way, if you want, you can also copy the fact that we allow SlideShare presentations and video demos in our form :^p
I have an excellent developer to recommend!