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Weekend Roundup #68

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:00:55 +0000

Good day folks! How was your weekend? Hope you all had fun and had a good weekend. Didn’t do much or go out this weekend because my wife got sick – cough, headache, sore throat and swollen tonsils so we weren’t able to attend church and she had to call off from work last night. I think it could be because of the recent unusual cold weather we’ve been having the past few days. Spent most of my time taking care of my wife and watching over my son. Hope she feels better and gets well soon.

Here’s this week’s edition of the Weekend Roundup. Hope you guys enjoy reading it.

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Thank you for your time and hope you guys have a great week ahead!

WebSapient Rips Off Designer’s Portfolio

Jaypee Habaradas — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:15:36 +0000

I first learned about this when Baddie plurked about it. I continued to read his blog post where I found out how a certain “web design company” called WebSapient that claims to be “a leading Web Designing, Development & Internet Marketing Company” blatantly copied a Filipino freelance designer’s entire portfolio. Below are the screenshots I took as soon as I finished reading about the story. (click on images to view larger version)

The Original Portfolio

The Copycat Portfolio

Not only did they rip-off one of Marco’s works but his ENTIRE portfolio. If that isn’t a blatant rip-off of somebody’s work, I don’t know what is.

According to their About Us page, WebSapient claims to be:

“an experienced and well established web design company specializing in website design and e-commerce development,”.

and

“Our team comprises of the most brilliant and skillful people in the industry with collective experience in Designing Web 2.0, graphic design, website development, Flash animation, Search Engine Optimization, Link Building and e-commerce programming.”

I’m not sure about the other skills that they mentioned above, but for sure I know that they’re good at one thing and that’s Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V (Copy and Paste). I bet even their list of clients and the clients testimonials are either ripped-off from someone else’s site or bogus.

I had my share of experiences with copycats, including one with a copycat blogger who copied several of my posts word-for-word without my permission or even giving me credit for my work (he later took down the posts and apologized after I contacted him) and the most recent one, a Filipino blogger who scraped my blog theme (premium theme/single license) and used it for his own but forgot to remove the links to my page. But all of that doesn’t come close to this.

Marco Palinar – the Site Guy, works as a freelance designer and his portfolio is his “life”, it’s his bread and butter. For someone to take his work, copy it and put it up as their own is not only plagiarism, copy-right infringement but absolutely wrong.

As of this moment, WebSapient have already pulled down their “portfolio” and replaced it with an “under construction” page. Too bad for them, a lot of bloggers already have evidence (screencaps) of their bogus portfolio. To other designers out there, watch out! Your portfolio might be next!

To WebSapient, of all the designer portfolio’s you could rip-off you chose Marco’s. Wrong move. You messed with the wrong guy. Now, you’re sooooo screwed! Or as Baddie would say it “Googlescrewed”!

Other bloggers who posted about this story:

Help spread the word! WebSapient needs to learn a lesson from this same goes for the other bogus “web design” sites out there that they can’t just rip-off somebody’s work and get away with it.

Please DIGG this WebSapient rips off ENTIRE portfolio off freelance designer

PinoyLancer: Freelance Hub

Jaypee Habaradas — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:53:09 +0000

PinoyLancer was just launched today! What is PinoyLancer? It is not a brand new car model made in the Philippines but rather a gig and freelance hub for all outsourcing project managers and freelancers. PinoyLancer is a free service made by a Pinoy just for Pinoys. However, it is not only exclusive to Filipinos, anyone who are interested can register and use this service.

PinoyLancer (PL) is your only gig, project, and freelance hub. It was meant to bring all outsourced projects out of private mailing lists, private forums, and other sources into one hub. It doesn’t replace them but rather help in sourcing out candidates in one destination.

Screenshots:

PinoyLancer is the brainchild of Canada-based Filipino programmer and serial startup starter, AJ Batac. PinoyLancer is only one of several startups/projects that AJ has worked on, other notable projects include Eskwela.com, a social networking site for Filipino students/alumni and Mployd.com, a job listing site.

Initially the service was in closed private beta testing but as of today, PinoyLancer is now open to the public. So if you’re a company who needs to outsource some of your work to freelancers, you can sign up now and post your freelance projects for free. Also, if you’re a freelancer looking for gigs or projects to work on, you can also sign up and browse the list of projects available.

Interested? What are you waiting for? Register now and starting posting your freelance projects and gigs!

Weekend Roundup #10

Jaypee Habaradas — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:58:41 +0000

Wow, time does fly so fast! I can’t believe that it’s already the 10th edition of the Weekend Roundup.

Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim shows us how to create user generated link bait.
Check out the Top 7 Pinay Scandals in Yahoo Search. This is the result of Marhgil’s mini SEO contest so don’t worry, this one’s SFW.
David Airey, a graphic and logo designer asks this question: “Are freelance designers really suckers?“.
Learn how to change the Windows Explorer default folder.
Interested in becoming a full-time freelancer? Check out Manila Freelancer’s post entitled: 4 Things to Do Before Becoming a Full-Time Freelancer
Is ScratchBack the next Text-Link-Ads? Teejay shares his opinion on this new online service.
Abe talks about how the weakening US dollar is hurting probloggers around the world.
Eli reports that the infamous Adobe Photoshop will soon have an online version called Photoshop Express.
Allen shares his experience and tip on fixing the “warning your backup directory is not writable” error caused by the WP DB Backup plugin.

Earlier this morning, I noticed that my Feedburner chicklet shows that there are only 113 RSS subscribers for my blog. I guess Google Feedfetcher had another hangover. Hehe

Hope you guys have a fun and safe weekend! Btw, I’ll be back in California this coming Sunday. :D