{"id":1687,"date":"2013-10-22T20:32:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T00:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/10\/22\/theres-an-app-for-that\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T19:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T00:56:17","slug":"theres-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/theres-an-app-for-that\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s an app for that"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8731\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/social-media.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8731\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8731 lazyload\" alt=\"Image courtesy of shutterstock.com\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/social-media.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"222\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 230px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 230\/222;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two Furman alums and one current student have launched a new social media iPhone app called \u201cDicho\u201d that allows its users to ask any kind of question in a group text and put it to a vote.\u00a0 Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll, who graduated in 2013, and senior Dougie Warstler have formed a company, Locus Engineering, and are currently marketing the app. The Greenville News reported on the new venture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20131011\/news\/310110050\/furman-students-launch-social-media-app\"><strong>Read the article\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Furman alums and one current student have launched a new social media iPhone app called \u201cDicho\u201d that allows its users to ask any kind of question in a group text and put it to a vote.\u00a0 Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll, who graduated in 2013, and senior Dougie Warstler have formed a company, Locus Engineering, and are currently marketing the app. The Greenville News reported on the new venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}