Google takes aim at 37 Signals!
April 11, 2008
Jason Fried, of 37Signals, was livid when Google (or their proxies) developed a chat application called HuddleChat. He felt it was wrong for Google to make an application that was similar to his company’s Campfire application. Google immediately took down the application. Mike Arrington and others suggested that by taking it down Google was engaging in censorship setting a bad precedent. Today Mike revealed that Google might be launching a ToDo list application. Um, 37Signals has a ToDo list application too (http://www.tadalist.com/). I suspect that Jason won’t be too happy about this either. Perhaps Google should start checking with the 37Signal guys before they begin developing applications ~ might save everyone some time. Just for the record, 37Signals owns the following application areas:
- Project Management and Collaboration (Basecamp)
- Online contact management and simple CRM (Highrise)
- Intranet, group calendar, organizer (Backpack)
- Real-time group chat for business (Compfire)
- ToDo Lists (TaDaList)
- Collaborative writing (Writeboard)
- Open-source web-app framework (Ruby on Rails)
FYI - we are a satisfied 37 Signals customer (just having some fun, so don’t turn off our Basecamp sites, please).
