{"id":65,"date":"2000-10-25T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2000-10-25T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2000-10-25T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2000-10-25T00:01:06","slug":"20001025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2000\/10\/25\/20001025\/","title":{"rendered":"2000\/10\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG><A href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/fog0000000032.html\"><STRONG>Another Business Model That Doesn&#8217;t Seem To Work<\/STRONG><\/A><\/STRONG><\/P> <P>I used to have <A href=\"http:\/\/www.atomz.com\/\">Atomz.com<\/A> as my search provider. When Atomz asked me to start paying ($100 for three months), it took me 20 minutes to switch over to <A href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/services\/\">Google<\/A>. Kiss them goodbye.<\/P> <P><STRONG>Nortel&#8217;s Loss is Fog Creek&#8217;s Gain<\/STRONG><\/P> <P>As soon as the investment community realized that <A href=\"http:\/\/babak.weblogs.com\/\">Babak Ghahremanpour<\/A> had left Nortel to join <A href=\"http:\/\/www.fogcreek.com\/\">Fog Creek Software<\/A>, Nortel&#8217;s stock <A href=\"http:\/\/cnnfn.cnn.com\/2000\/10\/25\/technology\/nortel\/\">plunges 27%<\/A>.<\/P> <P><A href=\"http:\/\/babak.weblogs.com\/\"><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"89\" alt=\"picture-babak: Babak Ghahremanpour joins Fog Creek Software\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/10\/Babak.jpg?resize=164%2C89&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"164\" border=0 ><\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Business Model That Doesn&#8217;t Seem To Work I used to have Atomz.com as my search provider. When Atomz asked me to start paying ($100 for three&hellip; <span class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2000\/10\/25\/20001025\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;2000\/10\/25&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s83KNI-20001025","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}