{"id":200,"date":"2012-02-24T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/24\/the-faceless-world-of-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T01:27:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:27:13","slug":"the-faceless-world-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/the-faceless-world-of-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faceless World of Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen. Last week I visited the product marketing folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elance.com\/\">www.elance.com<\/a> to give strategic input into their product and was greeted by this robot. Rachael&#8217;s voice boomed &#8220;Good Morning&#8221; and I thought the lady was in the office behind the empty reception. She wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>It was a freelancer located in the mid west of America which was sourced from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elance.com\">www.elance.com<\/a>. That&#8217;s the kind of receptionist that a cloud based crowdsourcing company that just hit $US 500 Million in gross revenue with 60 staff has. Only in the Valley&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screen-shot-2012-02-25-at-102337-am.png\" title=\"screen-shot-2012-02-25-at-102337-am.png\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/screen-shot-2012-02-25-at-102337-am.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2012-02-25-at-102337-am.png\" align=\"absmiddle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/photo1.JPG\" title=\"photo1.JPG\"><img align=\"middle\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound to happen. Last week I visited the product marketing folks at www.elance.com to give strategic input into their product and was greeted by this robot. Rachael&#8217;s voice boomed &#8220;Good Morning&#8221; and I thought the lady was in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/the-faceless-world-of-silicon-valley\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}