{"id":904,"date":"2003-11-03T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2003\/11\/03\/business_side_of_friendster.html"},"modified":"2003-11-03T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T15:50:52","slug":"business_side_of_friendster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2003\/11\/03\/business_side_of_friendster.html","title":{"rendered":"business side of Friendster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By and large, i&#8217;m not that interested in the business side of Friendster, except for the speculation, gossip, and critique that emerges as a result.  I&#8217;ve never had the opportunity to be so closely tied to the business endeavors of a technology, to see the scramblings and hype that emerge.  I do admit that it&#8217;s utterly fascinating to watch it from a psychological and sociological standpoint.  And i&#8217;m also continuing to be super appreciative of those who are motivated to <a href=\"http:\/\/socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com\/\">track the business side of it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the business news today, i&#8217;d like to make a pointer to: <a href=\"http:\/\/sippey.typepad.com\/filtered\/2003\/10\/thinking_throug.html\">sippey&#8217;s comparison of Friendster to eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By and large, i&#8217;m not that interested in the business side of Friendster, except for the speculation, gossip, and critique that emerges as a result. I&#8217;ve never had the opportunity to be so closely tied to the business endeavors of a technology, to see the scramblings and hype that emerge. I do admit that it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}