{"id":13714,"date":"2014-08-13T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13714"},"modified":"2014-08-13T13:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T18:16:29","slug":"another-million-dollar-idea-a-couple-days-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/another-million-dollar-idea-a-couple-days-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Million Dollar Idea A Couple Days Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on vacation in Florida last week and at the mercy of Garmin&#8217;s GPS app (at least until I sprang for a paper map of Orlando), I mentioned to my beautiful wife that I&#8217;d like a GPS app that not only gave you directions but would steer you away from bad neighborhoods in cities you don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out there is an app for that.  And a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/features\/blogs\/gone-viral\/os-sketch-factor-app-20140812,0,6185698.post\" target=\"_blank\">predictable backlash<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new app uses crowd-sourced data to identify which neighborhoods can be considered &#8220;sketchy&#8221; or unsafe, but some people are saying SketchFactor may promote racial discrimination, according to PC Mag.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dagnabbit.  I&#8217;m always a <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/06\/my-next-big-business-idea\/\" target=\"_blank\">bit late<\/a> to the party.  And I don&#8217;t quite get Objective-C.<\/p>\n<p>Although, to be honest, my app would rely on police report data, not crowdsourcing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on vacation in Florida last week and at the mercy of Garmin&#8217;s GPS app (at least until I sprang for a paper map of Orlando), I mentioned to my beautiful wife that I&#8217;d like a GPS app that not only gave you directions but would steer you away from bad neighborhoods in cities you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13715,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions\/13715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}