{"id":9799,"date":"2013-04-10T14:19:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2013-04-10T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T19:22:19","slug":"facebook-home-is-next-step-in-facebooks-developing-world-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9799","title":{"rendered":"Facebook \u201cHome\u201d Is Next Step in Facebook\u2019s Developing World Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Projections from the Yankee Group, a Boston-based analytics firm, highlight the potential: the number of smartphones in use is projected to double from 1.5 billion in 2013 to nearly 3 billion in 2017. Most of those 1.5 billion new adoptions will be in the developing world, and the vast majority will be lower-end Android phones. Facebook also wants to capture the attention of those who haven\u2019t yet gotten access to the Internet\u2014and will likely first do so on a mobile device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/news\/513416\/facebooks-real-home-may-be-the-developing-world\/\">Facebook \u201cHome\u201d Is Next Step in Facebook\u2019s Developing World Strategy | MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Projections from the Yankee Group, a Boston-based analytics firm, highlight the potential: the number of smartphones in use is projected to double from 1.5 billion in 2013 to nearly 3 billion in 2017. Most of those 1.5 billion new adoptions &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9799\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[378],"tags":[48,187,525,436],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","tag-android","tag-facebook","tag-market-trends","tag-smartphones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9808,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}