Blog of website & interface designer, Darran Morris.

Update: With a bit of Google’s help, I found the guy’s email. He says he just commissioned the site, and he got screwed by an outsourcing company. He removed the sites in minutes.

Update 2: Out of consideration I have removed links to their site and their name from this article. Benefit of the doubt and all that.

Well, I suppose its inevitable. And hilarious really.

My mobile app icon and interface design site app-bits.com just got completely and utterly plagarised. Not only did they completely rob the entire look of the site, they also completely ripped off the copy. The only thing changed was to add their logo, change app-bits to their name. The cherry on top? They had the where with all to update the Copyright message to have their name!

The email address on the site doesn’t work, the Whois doesn’t contain any information for me, (except for the name Name Removed) to get in touch with them, so I just have to call them out.

Dude, if you are reading this blog post and own this site, take it down. What a RIP.

For someone that read a good deal of William Gibson and a host of other “cyberpunk” novels, this seems to be quite something! Google appears to have switched on an AI called Cadie, which is a “she”, and also has her own homepage. 

This got me to looking around at some Gibson links and I found some great book covers for Neuromancer over the past two decades. 

Best of all, I thought, were these three for the Brazilian published editions of the entire series.

I think I may have to grab these books again just to prepare for when Google’s AI goes sentient and tries to control our destiny. This being the first of April, I think we can probably relax a little. But still, you never know..