{"id":49475,"date":"2012-05-08T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T06:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=49475"},"modified":"2012-05-08T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T06:35:35","slug":"floating-pirate-city-has-tech-startups-keen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/49475-floating-pirate-city-has-tech-startups-keen.html","title":{"rendered":"Floating pirate city has tech startups keen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>Over 100 technology companies have expressed an interest in becoming residents of a \u201cfloating city\u201d which will dock in international waters just outside of Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The project, known as &#8220;Blueseed&#8221;, is led by <a title=\"PayPal\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/222867-PayPal\">PayPal<\/a> co-founder <a title=\"Peter Thiel\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/400959-Peter-Thiel\">Peter Thiel<\/a>, and hopes to convert a cruise ship or barge into a pirate island that is able to provide living and working space to some 1,000 paying customers.<\/p>\n<p>The floating city will station itself 12 nautical miles from the coast of California, and have a crew of between 200 and 300 people.<\/p>\n<p>The close proximity to Silicon Valley, while being in international waters, would allow international start-ups to work closely with established technology giants, without the need for a U.S. working visa.<\/p>\n<p>Blueseed is hoping to launch in the third quarter of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/05\/07\/pirate-startup-island-outside-silicon-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech startups are jostling for a position on a planned \u201cfloating city\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":30386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[11445,169,8557],"class_list":["post-49475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-blueseed","tag-paypal","tag-peter-thiel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49479,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49475\/revisions\/49479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}