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This is social commentary you guys -- and it's flying over everyone's heads.

I am glad someone else noticed. Third party validation is most powerful... when it's real. God knows we wouldn't want to distract people from buying our product by reading about its usefulness in the New York Times.

The best satire is indistinguishable from reality.

I'm not sure if this is script in jest or not - but on a serious note, is there anyone else that gets frustrated when these icons don't actually link to the featured pieces? I'm always curious as to how start-ups are actually featured in these publications but most landing pages don't provide a link.

Being mentioned doesn't mean it was a positive mention, or even prominent.

By simply saying "seen in", you invite the reader to imagine a glowing full-colour centre spread instead of a snarky aside by a columnist in the sports pages.

It's tricky because you don't want the visitors clicking away and getting distracted reading the New York Times. You want them to stay on the site and read about your product in your own words :)

The sad thing: I was actually looking for something like this.

Hahaha love it. I've seen these everywhere and they do give people the psychological perception that its the latest cool thing.

I love the fact that you turned it into an actual 'app'. Props for making me laugh this morning.

Haha, very nice.

Bonus points for if the logos change color on mouseover.

Also needs Disney, seems so many websites are featuring Disney as one of their main clients as a selling point.

Yes, a version for clients. Then again there's http://relogo.org/.

Cool idea, this is pretty useful. However, considering most of the startups that end up on each of these sites are shut down within a few years (if not sooner), i dont know its actually the right way to prove you are legit.

Are you implying that startups not featured on these sites have a better chance of making it longer?

Hope its the lighter part, because wouldn't one of these companies sue for using their logos when there is nothing to link?

A negative review would still be something that technically was true, but you don't want to link to it. I doubt it's sue-able...

You should add an option for custom icons and article links, for the actually legit startups ;-)

Beautifully executed!

Great idea, but Forbes is anything but legit.

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