{"id":80,"date":"2006-08-26T09:45:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2006-08-26T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T17:45:02","slug":"chumby-a-clock-radio-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/80","title":{"rendered":"Chumby: A clock-radio for the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"

An old collegue of mine from Gryphon Software<\/a> (the founder and the guy who hired me, in fact) IM’d me today with news he’s at a new venture. Chumby Industries<\/a> is working on developing a new device which, in essence, is going to be a new generation of clock radio. It’s a small device with WiFi that can display content based on Flash widgets. Weather, horroscope, headlines, music, and, of course, the time.<\/p>\n

They’re just getting started but they seem to have thought about all the options and are going down a good path. They are going to provide premium fee-based content but will also support custom and\/or cummunity developed widgets. Unlike a Tivo, if you don’t want the service, it will still work but you’ll forego the content you’d get from the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An old collegue of mine from Gryphon Software (the founder and the guy who hired me, in fact) IM’d me today with news he’s at a new venture. Chumby Industries is working on developing a new device which, in essence, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-geek","category-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t