{"id":124,"date":"2007-02-26T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T17:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/wordpress\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-02-26T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T17:48:24","slug":"one-deal-a-day-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"One-deal-a-day sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetyee.ca\/\">The Tyee,<\/a> a BC-based online mag, and noticed an ad in the sidebar for &#8220;Hammer Drop. One Product. One Deal. Every Day.&#8221; It turns out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homedepot.ca\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/HammerDropView?storeId=10051&#038;catalogId=10051&#038;langId=-15&#038;eid=googlemassxhammerdropx120x600\">Hammer Drop<\/a> is a product of Home Depot, but is virtually identical to the offbeat one-deal-a-day site and (I think) the originator of the idea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woot.com\">Woot.com.<\/a> Woot.com has more interactivity &#8212; for instance, a comment board for each product, where insta-reviews and commentary on the product, previous products, your dog, etc. are posted.<br \/>\nI also recently found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jellyfish.com\">Jellyfish,<\/a> which offers a Smack of the Day, a pretty slick Flash-based variant of the deal-a-day concept, modelled on a game show concept. I know, I know, it&#8217;s Flash. But it&#8217;s one of the first examples of useful flash I&#8217;ve seen in a while. The interactivity is cool. Their idea is that the price of the item keeps dropping until enough people have purchased to exhaust the supply. It&#8217;s mostly gamer-focused, but cool nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was checking out The Tyee, a BC-based online mag, and noticed an ad in the sidebar for &#8220;Hammer Drop. One Product. One Deal. Every Day.&#8221; It turns out that Hammer Drop is a product of Home Depot, but is virtually identical to the offbeat one-deal-a-day site and (I think) the originator of the idea,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=124\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One-deal-a-day sites<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-bytes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}