{"id":8309,"date":"2012-10-05T17:34:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2012-10-05T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T05:00:10","slug":"ventures-that-come-and-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/2012\/10\/05\/ventures-that-come-and-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventures that come and go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the founder parade I was going to talk about the founders of <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2010\/03\/11\/chomp-raises-2m-for-iphone-app-recommendations-launches-new-site-and-features-at-chomp-com\/\" title=\"Chomp\">&#8216;Chomp&#8217;<\/a>; a really useful search engine of apps i came across \u00a0. However, as it was not related to education, I changed my mind. I was going to share the site with you for this week, but it&#8217;s gone! Apparently Apple bought it at the beginning of the year, and has now decided to phase it out (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57524031-37\/apple-quietly-shelves-chomp-app-search-tool\/)\"><\/a>. I guess I was right it was a good venture, so much so Apple preferred to buy them out and shelve them to avoid competition for them. Maybe when thinking of ventures, it&#8217;s not always necessary to think of something totally new, but rather of something that will compete with something existing. Isn&#8217;t that why Facebook bought Instagram?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the founder parade I was going to talk about the founders of &#8216;Chomp&#8217;; a really useful search engine of apps i came across \u00a0. However, as it was not related to education, I changed my mind. I was going to share the site with you for this week, but it&#8217;s gone! Apparently Apple bought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}