Fly Or Die: Whisper
Anonymity is all the rage these days, and so we bring our attention to Whisper. This week, we’re joined by Leena Rao, who has some mixed feelings about the craze around anonymous social sharing apps,...
View ArticleSecret CEO Responds To Cyberbullying Criticism
When it comes to cyberbullying in his anonyous sharing app, Secret co-founder claimed “We don’t see very much of that, if any” when we spoke on stage at SXSW. Secret’s user might disagree, and through...
View ArticleDoing It For The Likes
We crave approval, but we already knew that. Conventional thinking would suggest we seek digital validation because it means we’ve impressed people and raised our social status. But what anonymous...
View ArticleFly Or Die: Secret
With last week’s episode focusing on Whisper, we thought it only fair to take a hard look at its biggest competitor, Secret. Welcome to another episode of Fly or Die. Read More
View ArticleSecret Shoots For Growth With New Anonymous Invites
Want to be sure you don’t miss any juice gossip or heartwrenching tales from you friends? Now when you re-open Secret, you’ll start where you closed the app instead of at the top of the feed so it’s...
View ArticleSecret And Whisper Get Their Own Chinese Clones
Secret and Whisper have hit a dubious benchmark of success. Both have been cloned by developers in China. Secret posted about its Chinese duplicate this weekend, while Tech In Asia was the first...
View ArticleWould We Trust A Secret Clone From Facebook?
Facebook could buy an anonymous sharing app like Secret, or build one, but would we use it? Facebook’s Snapchat clone Poke crashed and burned in part because people worried Facebook would spy on,...
View Article‘Anonymish’ App Secret Taps Into Android, Global Markets; UK, Ireland,...
Secret — the iOS app that lets you share confessions, rumors, complaints and praise with your wider circle of friends without attaching your name to it– has captured the eye of early adopters in the...
View ArticleSecret Is Working On A Private Chat Feature
Anonyfish has been the only way to move a Secret conversation offline or somewhere with real names. But anonymous sharing app Secret plans to release its own native private chat feature, founders...
View ArticlePst! Secret’s Android ETA Is “Two To Three Weeks”
Secret, the anonymish app du jour that’s enabling iOS users to thrill their own friends and people in their social circles by saying stuff freely, without having their own identity attached to the...
View ArticleShortwave Shows Off Anonymous Chat As Another Consumer Use Case For iBeacons
Apple’s iBeacons are being trialled and demoed in retail settings all over the place, but they’re slowly becoming more interesting to average users, too. A new app called Shortwave offers up an...
View ArticleAnonymish Sharing App Secret Launches On Android And Opens Up Internationally
It’s hard to believe it here in Silicon Valley, but it’s been just four months since the “anonymish” social sharing app Secret could be downloaded in the U.S. Today, it will become available for...
View ArticleSecret Launches In China With A ‘Secret’ Partner, Adds Language Preferences...
Anonymous social sharing app Secret opened up to new users around the globe a few weeks ago, becoming available pretty much everywhere except China. The company corrected that this weekend,...
View ArticleSecret Is Taking Its Anonymous Networking App To Schools, Workplaces With New...
Anonymous social networking app Secret, a popular watercooler for Silicon Valley gossip, and now, much more thanks to recent expansions, has just announced a new feature called “Secret Dens,” which is...
View ArticleSecret Finally Lets All Your Freaky Friends Have Their Own Feeds
No more “I love my wife” or “I love my husband” posts from Montana for those of us using Secret on iOS. iPhone users can finally separate the hum-drum secrets of Midwestern life from their freaky...
View ArticleAre Secret’s Raging Hormones A Problem Or An Opportunity?
I can’t recall the exact wording on the short-lived post that found its way into my personal feed on Secret, the anonymish sharing app, the other day. But the illustrative image behind it was less...
View ArticleAnonymous Social Messaging Discovers That Location Matters
Apparently secrets are better if you share them with those closest to you — geographically. As anonymous social networks proliferate, they’re increasingly turning to location-based features as a way...
View ArticleAnonymish App Secret Has Raised Another $25M, Adds Facebook Login And...
Secret, the app that lets users share notes with others without revealing their identity, has attracted a lot of controversy (or celebration, depending on who you are) for how it enables the spread of...
View ArticleBrazil Court Issues Injunction Against Secret And Calls For App To Be...
A court in Brazil has ruled (via UOL) that Apple and Google must remove Secret, the anonymous social networking app, from their mobile software stores – and also from user devices where it’s already...
View ArticleSecret Update Removes Photo Library Access As It Faces Renewed Claims It...
Secret has a new update out for Android, with an iOS equivalent arriving sometime next week. The app changes include the addition of Flickr image search, which requires the “exchange” of the ability...
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