Comments on: IBM ForwardView portal

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:38:39 +0000

SHOWMAIL WAS CREATED BY A VENDOR FOR IBM - IBM DID NOT RIP THIS OFF. IBM DID NOT CREATE THIS. BLAME THE VENDOR!! I WON”T NAME NAMES HOWEVER, ALL U PEOPLE IN SERVICES KNOW VENDORS OFTEN RESELL THEIR SOLUTIONS AND REPACKAGE THEM.

ALSO LARGE CORPS USE MARKEING AND AD AGENCIES OFTEN TO CREATE CONTENT

TA TA

By: Clete

Clete — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:26:33 +0000

I wish I had seen this post back in March when it was still topical. Other than the use of beveled edges, FV Showmail and RR look nothing alike! The true test is the content. RR posts short videos in flash. FV uses mostly composited images and vector art with some video thrown in.

Showmail is history anyway. For the newly redesigned FV site, go to:
http://www-1.ibm.com/businesscenter/cpe/html0/33409.html

Now there’s QUITE a difference between the 2.

By: Nik

Nik — Wed, 18 May 2005 21:45:15 +0000

Similar styles are not rips…give it a rest. Rips are literally the same design with new content.

By: Gordon P

Gordon P — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:09:27 +0000

Mike, not a good idea to post a site that has very similar look to the best flash app ever made, http://www.rr.com/flash The pods are lifted, tweaked a little and put into IBM. I wonder is Road Runner aware of this.

By: rich

rich — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:32:21 +0000

Rip? They don’t even look the same. There’s only so many ways to present a similar style of content in such a successful manner, RR showed how it could be done, indeed it was a milestone in Flash RIA that just works. Big Blue is just too smart to get it wrong (most of the time!)
Flash makes it easy to rip designs? I think not, even if you decompile a SWF you still have to create practically everything from scratch, code and assets. Perhaps it was the white panels and soft shadows that reminded you of the thousands of other sites that employ that little aesthetic beauty
CPU hog it is, though, which is a bit of a shame I guess.

By: oouch

oouch — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:05:12 +0000

yes good example. But too similar to the Road Runner site.

By: annoying

annoying — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:50:37 +0000

design rip? you guys crack me up with that shit.

Inspired maybe, rip no.

By: paulc

paulc — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:11:26 +0000

Design rip, yes.

But I think this is a great example of how Flash can bring a more TV like experience to the web sans video.

I can think of several organizations that could use a site like that to draw their (corporate) customers in.

Bit of a CPU hog though.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:22:26 +0000

its great the way Macromedia flash can be used to rip others so easily. bad IBM.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:31:54 +0000

What a rip of http://www.rr.com/flash SHAME IBM!