{"id":87,"date":"2005-07-18T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-19T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2005-07-18T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2005-07-19T01:00:52","slug":"google-investors-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/18\/google-investors-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Investors at It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-9588_22-5792396.html\" target=\"_blank\">a report<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZDNet<\/a>, the investors, John Doerr and Ram Shriram, who had the foresight to help make Google the king of search, are betting on the next big thing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zazzle<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The concept behind the company has been around but never quite efficiently implemented &#8212; mass customization. The company partners with artists and other companies that own popular copyrighted images (say, oh, Mickey Mouse) to create customized merchandises ranging from stamps to t-shirts. It&#8217;s really a rather fascinating idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report at ZDNet, the investors, John Doerr and Ram Shriram, who had the foresight to help make Google the king of search, are betting on the next big thing: Zazzle. The concept behind the company has been around but never quite efficiently implemented &#8212; mass customization. The company partners with artists and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/18\/google-investors-at-it-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Investors at It Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-1p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}