Techmeme: Secret replaces photo library access with Flickr access, adds polls, moves to block posts with real names (Secret Den)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

August 22, 2014, 6:40 PM

Top News

Reiji Murai / Reuters:

iPhone 6 display panel redesign delayed production, impact on launch uncertain — Exclusive: Apple iPhone 6 screen snag leaves supply chain scrambling — (Reuters) - Suppliers to Apple Inc (AAPL.O) are scrambling to get enough screens ready for the new iPhone 6 smartphone as the need …

More: MacRumors, MacDailyNews, TheStreet.com, The Verge, SiliconBeat, iMore, Tech Times, App Advice, Forbes, SlashGear, EE Times, Laptop Mag, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Cult of Mac, Gotta Be Mobile, USA Today, TIME, Geek.com, CNET, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, Mashable, Business Insider, iPhone, ITProPortal, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Fortune, Fortune, Gizmodo, Tech Trader Daily, Investor's Business Daily, Gigaom, Re/code, Inquirer, bizjournals, BGR, iLounge and MacNN

Tweets: @m4tt, @stevesi, @m4tt and @nycjim

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

Secret has closed 42 security holes reported through its bug bounty which began in February — Your Anonymous Posts to Secret Aren't Anonymous After All — White hat hacker Ben Caudill is halfway through his sandwich when he casually reaches over to his iPhone, swipes the screen a few times, then holds it up to me.

More: Forbes, CNNMoney.com, New York Times, BGR, PandoDaily, CNET, The Daily Dot, Gigaom, Cult of Mac, The Verge, Tech Times, SlashGear, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Business Insider, The Next Web and Engadget

Tweets: @trevortimm, @ashk4n, @laurengelman and @hunterwalk

Thanks:@srikardr

Secret Den:

Secret replaces photo library access with Flickr access, adds polls, moves to block posts with real names — Image search, Questions and Safety — When we first designed Secret, we set a few key principles. Today, we're releasing an update focused on one of them: Words are the centerpiece.

More: AppleInsider, Engadget, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo and Business Insider. Tweets: @ajs

Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac:

Apple removes Secret app from Brazilian App Store for not conforming with local laws

More: Gigaom, PC Magazine, iMore, ReadWrite, Engadget, VentureBeat, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, CNET, TUAW, Ubergizmo, MacNN, App Advice, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web and AppleInsider. Thanks:@chancehmiller

Dan Frommer / Quartz:

Most smartphone users download zero apps per month — Mobile apps have skyrocketed in popularity and utility since Apple introduced the iPhone App Store in the summer of 2008. Apps now represent 52% of time spent with digital media in the US, according to comScore, up from 40% in early 2013.

More: comScore, Business Insider, Gigaom, TechSpot, RAIN News and TIME

Tweets: @fromedome, @chrismessina, @ross, @treehcapital, @chrisgilmer, @scobleizer, @piercedavid, @krestivo and @sfiegerman

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Majority Of Digital Media Consumption Now Takes Place In Mobile Apps

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Exclusive: Todd Park stepping down as America's chief technology officer — Todd Park is planning to step down as U.S. Chief Technology Officer by year-end, Fortune has learned from sources familiar with the situation. — He is expected to take on a new White House role …

More: Wired, Re/code, VentureBeat, The Hill, Gigaom and Government Technology News

Nick Statt / CNET:

Coin delays launch until spring 2015, will offer beta to the first 10,000 pre-order customers who opt in — Coin delays product launch until spring 2015 as questions remain — The startup behind a smart electronic device that stores credit and debit cards will offer a beta program for 10,000 customers.

More: The Next Web, The Verge, Engadget, Gigaom, Wired, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Crowdfund Insider, The Mac Observer, App Advice, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Valleywag, Electronista and Finextra Research news

Tweets: @markgurman and @percival

Thanks:@richardjnieva

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Twitter Is Working With Payments Startup Stripe on Its Commerce Initiative — Twitter's long-awaited plan to let its users make purchases right from a tweet is nearing, and payments startup Stripe will have a role in the business, multiple industry sources tell Re/code.

More: CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, Marketing Land, SlashGear and WebProNews. Tweets: @kabster728. Thanks:@delrey

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times:

More Than 1,000 Businesses in U.S. Affected by Same Cyberattack That Hit Target — More than 1,000 American businesses have been affected by the cyberattack that hit the in-store cash register systems at Target, Supervalu and most recently UPS Stores. — The attacks are much more pervasive …

More: The Verge, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Business Insider and BetaBoston. Tweets: @nicoleperlroth

Brian Womack / Bloomberg:

Google Buys Product-Design Company Gecko for X Projects — Google Inc. (GOOGL) is acquiring Gecko Design Inc. to add product-design capabilities to its research lab. — Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Gecko, which is based in Los Gatos, California, will join Google's X lab, the startup said on its website.

More: ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Computerworld, CNET, Gigaom, Engadget, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, Wall Street Journal, bizjournals and WebProNews

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Samsung couldn't resist turning the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge into an ad — It had to be done. Some unscrupulous marketer was always going to try and capitalize on the global popularity of the Ice Bucket Challenge — whose goal is to raise money to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) — as a cheap ploy to sell you more stuff.

More: 9to5Mac, Android Central, BGR, CNET, AppleInsider, BetaNews, TUAW, AdAge, Business Insider, TechCrunch, App Advice and WebProNews. Tweets: @inafried

Kurt Wagner / Re/code:

Twitter only inserts favorited tweets into your timeline after engagement from multiple users you follow — How Twitter Decides What to Place in Your Stream — Earlier this week, Twitter began adding content to users' timelines, and it says it's going to keep doing that.

More: SlashGear, WebProNews and hypebot

Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom:

Ryan Seacrest's Typo sold thousands of BlackBerry-style keyboards in defiance of court order, faces contempt charge — Typo, which makes add-on keyboards for iPhones, got off to a rocky start this year when a federal judge slapped it with a sales ban for violating BlackBerry patents.

More: PandoDaily, Law360, Electronista, iPhone in Canada Blog and CrackBerry.com

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

“Sense” sleep tracker fundraising totals nearly $13M: $10.5M from angels, $2.4 from Kickstarter, and none from institutional VCs — Sleep Tracker ‘Sense’ Raises $13 Million, Without Venture-Capital Help — At 23, James Proud is a rising Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur …

More: VentureBeat, Business Insider and Crowdfund Insider

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft NoSQL database and full-text search service previews available on Azure — Summary: Microsoft is making available previews of two new Azure services: Its DocumentDB NoSQL service and its full-text search service built on Elasticsearch. — Microsoft is making available in preview form …

More: ScottGu's Blog, Microsoft Azure Blog, The Register, SQL Server Team Blog, VentureBeat and Computerworld. Thanks:@msprwatch

Cyrus Lee / ZDNet:

China Telecom to sell unlocked iPhone 6 — Summary: China Telecom said it will unlock the next-generation iPhone by supporting the SIM cards of the other two major telecom players in the market. — Cyrus Lee — China Telecom, China's third largest telecom players trailing behind China Mobile …

More: 9to5Mac, BGR, MacDailyNews, Forbes, MacRumors, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac and PC Magazine. Tweets: @applespotlight

Steven Perlberg / Wall Street Journal:

AdDetector plugin detects native advertising on sites like BuzzFeed and the New York Times — Meet AdDetector — The New Plug-In That Labels Native Advertising — A week-old browser plug-in may have helped solve native advertising's labeling problem. — The service, AdDetector …

More: Business Insider and AdExchanger

Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal:

Airbnb to Expose 124 Hosts to New York Attorney General — Airbnb plans to hand over the names and addresses of 124 hosts on its service to the New York attorney general, the company said in a blog post Friday. — The apartment-rental site agreed in May to provide Attorney General Eric Schneiderman …

More: The Airbnb Public Policy Blog

Chris Davies / SlashGear:

Acer Chromebox CXI distills C7 Chrome OS for desktops — Acer has outed a new Chrome OS machine, the Chromebox CXI Series, bringing Google's cloud-centric platform to the desktop with prices kicking off at under $180. Rather than build on the Tegra K1-powered Chromebook 13, however …

More: Gigaom, 9to5Google, Ars Technica, BetaNews, PC World, Electronista, AndroidHeadlines.com and Liliputing

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:

SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.

Command Line:

GitHub Universe 2026: Highlights from the developer's developer conference — Copilot Fusion was the belle of the ball, but the hero at the heart of the two-day event was the developer community.

Zoho:

Introducing the new Zoho Analytics: Agentic analytics for every business — We're excited to announce the launch of the new Zoho Analytics! This release marks a major shift for the product …

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:

Big Tech's Ugly Week, Getting Rich At Anthropic, AI Costs Plunge

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Machine Gods:

OpenAI's Latest Discoveries Spark a Backlash + Help! My Kid Hates AI

The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.

Subscribe to Machine Gods.

The Upstarts Podcast:

The Accidental YC Founder Solving AI's GPU Crisis | SF Compute's Evan Conrad

Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.

Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.

Cheeky Pint:

Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence

Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.

Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.

Great Chat:

The case for AI optimism

A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.

Subscribe to Great Chat.

Sources:

Tobi Lütke on the AI agent revolution and future of Shopify

Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.

Subscribe to Sources.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:40 PM ET, August 22, 2014.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.