{"id":3930,"date":"2017-01-18T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T04:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T10:23:04","slug":"spug-finally-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2017\/01\/spug-finally-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Palm Users Group (SPUG) is finally dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPUG or Singapore Palm Users Group had been going to a slow decline for the past few years. \u00a0It was down for the last few months of December 2016. \u00a0Today in January 2017, it has finally given up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3931\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chrome_2017-01-18_11-58-26-494x115.png\" alt=\"SPUG is down\" width=\"494\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chrome_2017-01-18_11-58-26-494x115.png 494w, https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chrome_2017-01-18_11-58-26-188x44.png 188w, https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chrome_2017-01-18_11-58-26-768x179.png 768w, https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/chrome_2017-01-18_11-58-26.png 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a Palm owner, I remembered joining the group to catch up on the latest for apps for the Palm PDA. \u00a0Later it became a go-to reference for almost anything.\u00a0 The SPUGgers in the Others thread had a wealth of knowledge to share and contribute.\u00a0 A much more refined forum than the freewheeling\u00a0EDMW. Google is always there, the collective local context of Spuggers was unbeatable.<\/p>\n<p>Later as the product line of Palm slowly shrunk, so did the group.\u00a0 When the HP killed off the Touchpad, the participation of the forums slowly died off.\u00a0 The same happened to the Singapore Windows Users Group (SWUG).\u00a0 That group became a Facebook group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPUG or Singapore Palm Users Group had been going to a slow decline for the past few years. \u00a0It was down for the last few months of December 2016. \u00a0Today in January 2017, it has finally given up. &nbsp; As&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,222],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-smartphones","tag-palm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}