{"id":1185,"date":"2006-05-03T18:12:47","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T22:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2006-05-03T18:12:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T22:12:47","slug":"iloo-and-other-duds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"iLoo and other duds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal Online has a story by Katherine Meyer, <a title=\"WSJ.com - The Best of the Worst\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article\/SB114424637699117715-OO16F7Ov3DMZcs1xpbu5ksPDTl0_20070503.html?mod=blogs\">The Best of the Worst<\/a> (May 3, 2006) about dot-com duds that failed like Microsoft&#8217;s iLoo portable toilet with an internet connection. (Yes, it was supposed to have a waterproof keyboard and would be used at UK music festivals.) Other duds include CyberRebate.com, Flooz.com, iSmell, and the CueCat. The last dud mentioned is PointCast which offered a custom browser for push content which I actually tried for a while. This came from Slashdot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street Journal Online has a story by Katherine Meyer, The Best of the Worst (May 3, 2006) about dot-com duds that failed like Microsoft&#8217;s iLoo portable toilet with an internet connection. (Yes, it was supposed to have a waterproof keyboard and would be used at UK music festivals.) Other duds include CyberRebate.com, Flooz.com, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iLoo and other duds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}