Comments on: Genfavicon: A favicon generator

By: Bubbla

Bubbla — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:48:05 +0000

Sweat gadget, just what I have been looking for! Well Pleased…

By: aksival

aksival — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 19:30:46 +0000

Being the guy who developed Favikon, I was stunned to find a very similar genfavicon.com pop up not long after mine was released.

It seems they pretty much ripped all the JavaScript piece by piece, making only minor changes here and there. They even went so far as to copy the colors and most of the verbiage (notice how what they *didn’t* copy is full of typos and grammatical errors).

Alexander: Thanks for the WHOIS info which pretty much speaks for itself.

By: Alexander Kirk

Alexander Kirk — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:17:14 +0000

@ben: they do the same thing, but they share the same javascript code (e.g. the comment “// Make sure a URL of file has been specified” exists in both http://www.genfavicon.com/js/functions.js and http://www.favikon.com/includes/favikon.js .. what a coincidence).
I don’t have anything against two services doing the same, but I heavily oppose just copying code from another website and then receiving positive press for it.

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:19:59 +0000

@alex: Yes, the do the same thing, but really, is anything original on the web anymore? As long as they both use jQuery, I’m fine with it :)

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:16:00 +0000

@rey: In my defense, I’m lazy… wait, I mean… Ok, I’m just lazy :)

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:35:42 +0000

@Ben: Cmon, it takes all of 3 mins! ;)

By: Alexander Kirk

Alexander Kirk — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:35:29 +0000

I am not completely sure about this, but I think we have a case of copy-cat-ism here.
The sources of http://www.genfavicon.com/ and http://www.favikon.com/ look uber-similar to me, and when consulting the whois records for the domains it seems as if genfavicon (domain created nov22, 07) has copied from favikon (domain created nov12, 07).

By: Benjamin Sterling

Benjamin Sterling — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:34:06 +0000

That is great, thanks for the post. Now, if I can only get around to creating one for my site. :)

By: Rey Bango

Rey Bango — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:35:05 +0000

@David: No prob.

@puRe: yeah the Ninja is cool

By: puRe

puRe — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:10:07 +0000

There’s the little ninja again ;)

By: David Carrero Fdez-Baillo

David Carrero Fdez-Baillo — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:22:37 +0000

Thanks for you post about our genfavicon project :)