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2010's Most Imitated Web Businesses
The Net is rife with the sincerest form of flattery. Facebook for movie fans? (Really?) Here are 2010's most-imitated Web businesses. Which copycats look like winners?
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| Scitable Science educators and students interact to share peer-reviewed published content and join virtual classrooms. It's as if the Internet could finally work out okay for nerds. |
Warby Parker Never having to try on greasy floor-model glasses? Avoiding the high-pressure sales environment? Girls (and boys) will make passes at ... Parker. |
Unvarnished Create an Unvarnished page and then other people rate you as a business professional. Terrifying but essential in these TMI times. How soon can I enlist people to write fake positive reviews of me? |
Vevo Transforming the way we watch music videos online and the way advertisers make money from them. We haven't been this excited about videos since "Thriller." |
Rent the Runway Buys that expensive gown you'll only wear once so you don't have to -- then rents it to you at 90% off retail. Between this and Gilt Groupe, will you ever see the inside of a department store again? |