{"id":114,"date":"2007-10-04T22:51:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T06:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=114"},"modified":"2009-12-05T03:51:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T11:51:47","slug":"online-speed-dating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2007\/10\/04\/online-speed-dating\/","title":{"rendered":"Online speed-dating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damnit.  A couple of Stanford jerks stole my idea for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speeddate.com\/\">online speed-dating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I should be saying, &#8220;Woohoo, now I don&#8217;t have to implement it myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addendum:<br \/>\nOkay, I should be saying, &#8220;Phew&#8221;, because apparently they filed for <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsrchnum.htm&#038;Sect1=PTO1&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;p=1&#038;r=1&#038;l=50&#038;f=G&#038;d=PALL&#038;s1=7203674.PN.&#038;OS=PN\/7203674&#038;RS=PN\/7203674\"> a patent<\/a> on the thing five years earlier, so as Mitchell puts it: &#8220;Our laziness saved us some legal fees.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damnit. A couple of Stanford jerks stole my idea for online speed-dating. Or maybe I should be saying, &#8220;Woohoo, now I don&#8217;t have to implement it myself.&#8221; Addendum: Okay, I should be saying, &#8220;Phew&#8221;, because apparently they filed for a patent on the thing five years earlier, so as Mitchell puts it: &#8220;Our laziness saved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-dating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}