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Plague: A communication app that can help your Online Content go viral

newstartuplogoWe all love it when things go viral Online. Be it a YouTube song or some silly Instagram image. Of course, sometimes the guy who posted it walks away smiling to the bank, too.

But what’s the secret in making your Online Content go viral in the 1st place? What’s the recipe for creating that buzz around it? Now here’s a startup which may not still give away the secret sauce but is close enough. Plague is a platform that helps spread information to as wide an Online audience as possible.

As the name suggests, Plague works like a virus, but a good one. When you spread information, it goes to the users who are closest to you physically. The infected users can spread information exponentially further or they can resist the epidemic by keeping the information to themselves.

What this new smartphone app does is give anyone & everyone a fair & equal chance to be heard by the whole network right from the start – there is no friending or following on Plague. If your information is interesting to people, it can eventually spread to the entire world. That’s what this new social communications app,developed in Lithuania is all about.

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…and by the way, do not get confused between this new app & Plague Inc., which is a mobile game…2 different things, baby.

When you post your Content, it goes on to the nearest 4 smartphones which have the Plague app installed, & “infects” them with your Content. It is then left to these 4 to spread the infection by scrolling the screen up, in turn, infecting 4 others. You can also choose to comment on any given post.

What, of course, is crucial is that your phone & so of the others, must have this new smartphone app installed.

Click here to download Plague on your Android device.

Click here to download Plague on your iOS device.

Image Credit: Google store/Plague

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New social app Secret.ly allows you to share your secrets anonymously Online

new social appSecret is a social app that allows you to share secrets anonymously with your friends & the world.

It’s kinda your office complaint box or a performance review where everyone is allowed to say what they want & post jokes & personal stuff about themselves & others without having to take responsibility for the “gossip.”

The way Secret.ly works is pretty simple – when you sign up & start using the app, it goes through your contacts & uses them to find out who your friends are & extends it to friends of friends. You can also log in with your Facebook account, in which case your Facebook network serves as your network of friends on the Secret network, too.

When you have at least 3 friends sharing, you start getting presented with their secrets in random order at random intervals. You need at least 7 friends before posts you see are tagged as being made by 1 of your friends or a friend of a friend.

The randomness & minimum number of required friends ensures that you don’t get fingered for posting secrets if you’re with friends in the same room.

Those who see posts on Secret can also love & comment on it. If a friend on Secret “loves” a post made by you, it gets shared with their circle of friends too. When this viral sharing goes beyond 2 degrees (friends of friends) it gets marked with a general location (state).

Apart from the secrets shared with friends & friends of friends, there is also an “explore” stream that shows posts 3 or more degrees removed from you. This stream also includes featured posts selected by the “secret staff”.

The concept is easy & simple, & it should protect your anonymity unless you provide some highly specific information that only you could know.

It’s also a lot of fun, & you can make it more appealing by adding a relevant picture to your post. For instance, here’s a post from someone in the U.K. – “I work for Microsoft but I hate Windows and I want to be an Android developer.”

San Francisco, California, USA-based Secret, Inc. was founded in Oct 2013 by David Byttow & Chrys Bader-Wechseler. Byttow is the company’s CEO & Bader-Wechseler is the chief product officer. Secret, Inc. has raised $35 million in 3e funding rounds.

Click here to download the Secret app on your iOS device.

Click here to download the Secret app on your Android device.

 

Image Credit:Secret

 

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