{"id":7491,"date":"2014-04-29T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:35:31","slug":"got-some-dark-secrets-you-want-to-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/got-some-dark-secrets-you-want-to-share\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Some Dark Secrets You Want to Share?"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"postHeader\">\n<blockquote>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Anonymous Chatting, Through a Simple Service<\/h1>\n<div class=\"story-meta-footer\">\n<address class=\"byline author vcard\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"w592\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"100000002850515\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2014\/04\/28\/technology\/28bits-anonyfish\/28bits-anonyfish-tmagArticle.jpg\" alt=\"Anonyfish was introduced in February and hosts around 600 messages each day.\" width=\"592\" height=\"395\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\" style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #666666;\">Anonyfish was introduced in February and hosts around 600 messages each day.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secret, the popular mobile application,\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"Related Times article.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/19\/technology\/new-social-app-has-juicy-posts-but-no-names.html?_r=0\">lets people share<\/a>\u00a0their deepest, darkest \u2014 and occasionally funniest \u2014 confessions anonymously, with their friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The application lets people see other people\u2019s \u2018secrets\u2019 and comment on them, but it doesn\u2019t yet include a way for them to message each other through the service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So Philip Kaplan, a serial entrepreneur and a\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"The app.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.secret.ly\/\">Secret<\/a>\u00a0user, cobbled together a simple and free service called\u00a0<a style=\"color: #326891;\" title=\"The service's website.\" href=\"https:\/\/anonyfish.com\/\">Anonyfish<\/a>\u00a0that allows people to send private, anonymous messages to each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI noticed that people were creating one-off Gmail accounts to talk to people from Secret, and I thought that was a waste,\u201d he said in a recent phone interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His service, called Anonyfish, lets people create a user name that they can share with those they want to communicate with and then gives them access to a simple inbox for exchanging messages. The service is appealing to someone who might want to talk about something that was posted on Secret\u00a0\u2014 like acquisitions rumors or accusations of workplace harassment\u00a0\u2014 in private, but not reveal their full identity yet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEverything is encrypted,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t even see the user names. It all looks like random characters and garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/29\/anonymous-chatting-through-a-simple-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source: The New York Times<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous Chatting, Through a Simple Service \u00a0 Anonyfish was introduced in February and hosts around 600 messages each day. Secret, the popular mobile application,\u00a0lets people share\u00a0their deepest, darkest \u2014 and occasionally funniest \u2014 confessions anonymously, with their friends. The application lets people see other people\u2019s \u2018secrets\u2019 and comment on them, but it doesn\u2019t yet include a way for\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/got-some-dark-secrets-you-want-to-share\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7492,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions\/7492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}