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Definitely an interesting trend emerging here, with lots of different players entering the space. http://whisper.sh/ http://whisper.sh/ raised a $21M series B,
by coderholic 13y ago
Definitely an interesting trend emerging here, with lots of different players entering the space. http://whisper.sh/ http://whisper.sh/ raised a $21M series B, and http://www.500strangers.com http://www.500strangers.com also recently launched.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoSeems like this kind of thing would have extremely low lock-in. All the usual mechanisms for that are invalid in this case.
- dictum 13y agoThis will come off very elitist, but these popular image-based self-expression venues like Reddit image macros, the pictures on whisper.sh and the inspirational/life lesson pictures people share on Facebook all the way back to MySpace blingee have a weird kitschy thing going. I should coin a neologism for it. Whisper is like PostSecret without the irony and users over the age of 22. Part of me wants to get all haughty and say there's no way they need 21M, and the other part wants to get all haughty and say they need 1B, because people will get all over this stuff for this faux-honest emo 2.0 is how people really feel behind the layers of irony and spectacle. I cringed when corporations started adopting sarcasm and slang to fit in on Twitter and FB, but now I cringe when I see companies using this kitschy-intimate-bitchy-tumblr style.