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February 18, 2014 09:55 pm GMT
The shift toward more private and anonymous sharing continues, and today another new application called Shortwave (or Shrtwv, as they’re now abbreviating it, to eliminate confusion with another Shortwave) is officially debuting its own take on the trend with an app for anonymous sharing of both photos and thoughts. The difference between Shrtwv and something like Secret or Whisper which are also focused on anonymous postings, is that, with Shrtwv, the thoughts, photos and activities are tied to a location, where they’re then left behind for others in the current vicinity to see. The company refers to the app as “an anonymous diary for your world,” however one of the larger use cases could be posting those “overheards” to Shrtwv instead of to Twitter as an “OH:..” tweet. It could also make sense for when you have something to share, but don’t want to be involved in the guessing game that Secret permits with its “anonymish” identification of users as either a “friend” or “friend of friend.” The posts in Shrtwv, called “waves,” can be read in real-time by those nearby. Leaving a wave is easy enough to do. On the app’s home screen, you just swipe up and share your thought or photo. Users can like or flag the waves they see, to give you feedback. “Have you ever been at a coffee shop and you overhear something that sticks with you for a long time after?In a nutshell, that is whatShrtwv is about,” explains co-founder Muneeb Bokhari of Digiplastic Industries, the company behind Shrtwv (pronounced “Shortwave”). “We believe that anonymity is really about commenting on and taking in experiences without any direct judgment by others,” he adds, noting that in the coffee shop example, you couldn’t respond directly because you don’t know the person saying it, and it’s weird to walk up to a stranger and just tell them your thoughts on the matter. But you can post the “overheard” statement and share it with others, as people tend to do. But not all Shrtwv’s have to be about the “overheard.” One of Bohari’s favorites, he says was of a person in the NY area who posted they were stressed about expecting their third child. A second user later responded to give them encouragement. This sort of use case is more similar to Whisper’s, where it’s about expressing personal thoughts, sometimes of a darker or more embarrassing nature.
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Shrtwv Is A New Anonymous Sharing App That Ties Your Thoughts & Photos To Physical Locations
The shift toward more private and anonymous sharing continues, and today another new application called Shortwave (or Shrtwv, as they’re now abbreviating it, to eliminate confusion with another Shortwave) is officially debuting its own take on the trend with an app for anonymous sharing of both photos and thoughts. The difference between Shrtwv and something like Secret or Whisper which are also focused on anonymous postings, is that, with Shrtwv, the thoughts, photos and activities are tied to a location, where they’re then left behind for others in the current vicinity to see. The company refers to the app as “an anonymous diary for your world,” however one of the larger use cases could be posting those “overheards” to Shrtwv instead of to Twitter as an “OH:..” tweet. It could also make sense for when you have something to share, but don’t want to be involved in the guessing game that Secret permits with its “anonymish” identification of users as either a “friend” or “friend of friend.” The posts in Shrtwv, called “waves,” can be read in real-time by those nearby. Leaving a wave is easy enough to do. On the app’s home screen, you just swipe up and share your thought or photo. Users can like or flag the waves they see, to give you feedback. “Have you ever been at a coffee shop and you overhear something that sticks with you for a long time after?In a nutshell, that is whatShrtwv is about,” explains co-founder Muneeb Bokhari of Digiplastic Industries, the company behind Shrtwv (pronounced “Shortwave”). “We believe that anonymity is really about commenting on and taking in experiences without any direct judgment by others,” he adds, noting that in the coffee shop example, you couldn’t respond directly because you don’t know the person saying it, and it’s weird to walk up to a stranger and just tell them your thoughts on the matter. But you can post the “overheard” statement and share it with others, as people tend to do. But not all Shrtwv’s have to be about the “overheard.” One of Bohari’s favorites, he says was of a person in the NY area who posted they were stressed about expecting their third child. A second user later responded to give them encouragement. This sort of use case is more similar to Whisper’s, where it’s about expressing personal thoughts, sometimes of a darker or more embarrassing nature.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BKzWOwpBnKA/
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