{"id":11185,"date":"2008-05-03T21:26:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11185"},"modified":"2008-05-03T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T18:26:32","slug":"on-the-importance-of-early-adopters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/03\/on-the-importance-of-early-adopters\/","title":{"rendered":"On the importance of early adopters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scobleizer<\/a> has a really nice blog post on the importance of early adopters<\/a>.\u00a0 Go and read it.<\/p>\n

Early adopters DO matter. Anyone who says that they don\u2019t needs to go back to business school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Scobleizer has a really nice blog post on the importance of early adopters.\u00a0 Go and read it. Early adopters DO matter. Anyone who says that they don\u2019t needs to go back to business school.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1968,344,1091],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-business","tag-promotion","tag-users"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28303,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/09\/github-graphql-api-v4\/","url_meta":{"origin":11185,"position":0},"title":"GitHub GraphQL API v4","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I've briefly mentioned before that GitHub joined the adopters of the GraphQL for their API.\u00a0 Here's the link to the full documentation and more details. 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