{"id":25,"date":"2008-08-26T07:59:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T12:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-08-26T10:03:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:03:32","slug":"flixster-buys-iphone-iapp-for-iundisclosed-iamount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/26\/flixster-buys-iphone-iapp-for-iundisclosed-iamount\/","title":{"rendered":"Flixster Buys iPhone iApp for iUndisclosed iAmount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/08\/26\/college-sophomore-sells-his-iphone-app-to-flixster\/\">Techcrunch is reporting<\/a> that Flixster bought an iPhone application called Movies.app last week, and re-released it last night.  It&#8217;s basically an app that shows movie times, has maps to local theaters, and lets you watch movie trailers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a little surprised that Flixster went out and bought the App, when it could have been developed internally.  Maybe they learned a thing or two from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/business\/2008\/01\/hasbro-matel-te.html\">Hasbro vs Scrabbulous<\/a> fight &#8211; if you see a great program, buy it.  Now Flixster has a popular app under it&#8217;s umbrella.  Hasbro has a replacement app for Scrabbulous, but I hear it&#8217;s not as popular.<\/p>\n<p><i>Update<\/i> Techcrunch says that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/08\/26\/scrabulous-taken-down-worldwide-by-facebook-except-in-india\/\"> Scrabbulous has been taken down world-wide now<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techcrunch is reporting that Flixster bought an iPhone application called Movies.app last week, and re-released it last night. It&#8217;s basically an app that shows movie times, has maps to local theaters, and lets you watch movie trailers. I&#8217;m a little surprised that Flixster went out and bought the App, when it could have been developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5,17],"tags":[16,20,18,328,19,21],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-indie-developers","category-iphone","tag-flixster","tag-hasbro","tag-iapp","tag-iphone","tag-moviesapp","tag-scrabbulous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}