{"id":1740,"date":"2012-02-01T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2012-02-01T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T15:00:00","slug":"doodle-takes-scheduling-service-offline-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2012\/02\/doodle-takes-scheduling-service-offline-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Doodle takes its scheduling service offline &#8230; to paper."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Zurich-based Doodle, the online scheduling service, announced\u00a0the release of its latest addition to Doodle &#8211; Doodle Unplugged. The post announcing the new service reads as if one user complained so hard that they decided to mock him by actually creating it. Intended for &#8220;Internet users who think \u201ccloud scheduling\u201d is too geeky,&#8221; the PDF file is available to basic users, though the blog post notes that you can upgrade to the premium version buy <strong>printing it out on high quality paper. <\/strong>As the post continues, it becomes more and more clear that the Doodle team is definitely having fun with this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next step involves letting your participants specify what works best for them, and the piece of paper can be shared with the group by mail,\u00a0<strong>fax<\/strong>, bicycle messenger, telegraph, or carrier pigeon. Once everyone has participated in the process, you\u2019ll see what works best for the group and you can then schedule the event.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Unplugged\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/Unplugged1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"166\" \/>The offline service currently guarantees event scheduling in less than one year &#8211; I&#8217;ll be sending them a fax in a year letting them know that my event wasn&#8217;t schedule (unless you received my carrier pigeon today?).<br \/>\nMore than 10 million people have alreayd used Doodle&#8217;s online service, though I&#8217;m not sure they&#8217;ll be able to accurately track metrics on their latest product.<br \/>\nYou can download the pdf here or just by clicking the thumbnail on the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Zurich-based Doodle, the online scheduling service, announced\u00a0the release of its latest addition to Doodle &#8211; Doodle Unplugged. The post announcing the new service reads as if one user complained so hard that they decided to mock him by actually creating it. Intended for &#8220;Internet users who think \u201ccloud scheduling\u201d is too geeky,&#8221; the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":64798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}