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There are only so many ways to do a 350x250 UI that contains text, a location, and a public/private toggle.

• nudist 17y ago
  That is absolutely untrue. It's pretty clear that Buzz was inspired by Brightkite. I'm not going to pass judgement on the similarity, but the inspiration is clear.
  • freetard 17y ago
    > That is absolutely untrue. How come? Given that every UI element on the iPhone is standard. Apps having similar functionalities are bound to look alike.
    • MrMatt 17y ago
      Only one of those screenshots is from the iPhone.
    • johns 17y ago
      It's not a native app either, it's a web app that doesn't have standard controls. They could design it however they wanted as long as they could build it in HTML.
      • Timothee 17y ago
        That being said, the Google Buzz app is just using the same UI library that Google has developed for all their other mobile offers (Gmail, Calendar, GTalk, etc.). I think you have two things: 1. Google developed their library of UI elements that looks a lot like the iPhone ones. 2. Using that library, they made a new interface for Buzz. It does look very similar to Brightkite's, but only the location part can be really argued as "inspired", the rest is pretty standard indeed.
    • glhaynes 17y ago
      The "location" element that shows the bakery info ("X" on the left, text, then ">" on the right) is non-standard and seems pretty blatantly... "inspired". Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that.