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Fast Company

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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Unwanted: Diamond-Encrusted iPad

Diamond-Encrusted iPad.

Fast Company

The Canned Lion Awards

As the ad industry debates plagiarism — and prepares to congratulate itself at this year’s Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival — we unveil our nominees for the most egregious copycat ads, parallel thinking, and poorly conceived homages. Go to fastcompany.com/ripoff to vote for your least favorites.

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Unwanted: Naranja Studio Cloak Bag

An ugly tourist bag that will make you look like…a tourist.

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Quiz: Ad Agency or Indie Band?

Advertising creatives like to think of themselves as rock stars, but the trend of too-hip-for-the-room agency names has gone too far when they’re indistinguishable from the folks who sing for kids sporting bushy beards and ironic T-shirts.

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Cenk Uygur Sets Out to Take Down Traditional Television

Cenk Uygur and his rebel band are out to take down traditional television, with a hand from YouTube, satellite radio, and 500,000 fans.

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Quiksilver’s Spice Girls

The struggling sportswear company tries to jump-start its new women’s clothing line — and a turnaround — by sponsoring a “team” of creatives.

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