{"id":333,"date":"2005-10-22T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2005-10-22T03:28:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:09","slug":"microsoft_is_jiggy_wid_it_they_ve_got_th_411","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2005\/10\/22\/microsoft_is_jiggy_wid_it_they_ve_got_th_411\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is &#8220;jiggy wid it&#8221;, they&#8217;ve got the &#8220;411&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/community\/features-gamercards.htm\">http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US&#8230;-gamercards.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was reading about My Xbox, Microsoft&#8217;s plans to integrate the Xbox 360, Xbox Live, and Xbox.com.<\/p>\n<p>The article I was reading provides details in the form of a dialogue between Clinton Fowler (the Program Manager for My Xbox) and Trixie (presumably the author of the article). I think that they&#8217;re trying a little <em>too<\/em> hard to appeal to their intended demographic.<\/p>\n<p>Choice quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;if you&#8217;ve already got your gamertag linked to a .NET Passport, you&#8217;re golden&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;what if I&#8217;ve been a bad little monkey and haven&#8217;t gotten around to linking my gamertag yet? Am I hosed?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What&#8217;s that &#8220;My X80x Rocks&#8221; thing?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A few final thoughts. Firstly, I get the feeling that they expect &#8220;gamers&#8221; will be more comfortable with My Xbox because the Project Manager is an Xtreme downhill mountain biker, or BMX rider (&#8230; do they still call it BMX?), or whatever he is apparantly doing in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/NR\/rdonlyres\/262A4F43-867C-4A0A-A57C-68C87794264F\/47606\/clinton.jpg\">his profile image<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I&#8217;m not sure that I want to know about the &#8220;secret sauce of Xbox 360&#8221;. It just sounds icky and&#8230; ewh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US&#8230;-gamercards.htm I was reading about My Xbox, Microsoft&#8217;s plans to integrate the Xbox 360, Xbox Live, and Xbox.com. The article I was reading provides details in the form of a dialogue between Clinton Fowler (the Program Manager for My Xbox) and Trixie (presumably the author of the article). I think that they&#8217;re trying a little &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2005\/10\/22\/microsoft_is_jiggy_wid_it_they_ve_got_th_411\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft is &#8220;jiggy wid it&#8221;, they&#8217;ve got the &#8220;411&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-5n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3950,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/3950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}