Andy Brudtkuhl
Local bloggers - including Nathan T. Wright, Andy Brudtkuhl and Brett Trout - created posts and Twitter messages informing customers that TrustyPig was using the SmartyPig Web design features illegally.
Within a couple days, TrustyPig began replacing its Web designs, Gaskel said.
SmartyPig was launched early this year as the nation's first online savings account with social networking capacity, where friends and family can contribute to savers' accounts at West Bank to help meet specific savings goals.
TrustyPig's Web site says it is an online marketing company. It's not clear where the site operates from, but a post on it explains that the SmartyPig mistake occurred when "a programer from Romania and a designer from China" were hired to design Web pages.
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