{"id":11820,"date":"2014-07-14T15:46:57","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T22:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11820"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:18","slug":"get-inside-whispers-secret-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/get-inside-whispers-secret-economy","title":{"rendered":"Get Inside Whisper\u2019s Secret Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Austin Carr \u2014 Fast Company<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fc-plugin people-page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/person\/michael-heyward\" data-name=\"peoplePages\" data-id=\"fastcompany|node|3030219\">Michael Heyward<\/a> is scouring the web for military secrets, though not of the Julian Assange variety. Over black tea at a dark hotel bar in downtown Los Angeles, Heyward and I sit next to each other, noses to a laptop as he searches on Whisper, the mobile service he created that lets anyone share their innermost secrets anonymously. He\u2019s using an internal company tool called Predict to dig up Whispers on specific topics\u2013in this instance, about soldiers who are agonizing over their sexual preferences. Heyward zeroes in on locations like Kandahar and Bagram Airfield, in Afghanistan, soon landing on a Whisper from a bisexual Marine near Kabul who is afraid to come out to his platoon. \u201cThis guy thinks he\u2019s the only person on the planet with this emotion, but there\u2019s no reason he should feel alone\u2013tons of people are like him,\u201d says Heyward. \u201cWe created this place so you can connect with people. It\u2019s like a Wikipedia of human emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3032951\/welcome-to-the-secret-economy?partner=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Austin Carr \u2014 Fast Company Michael Heyward is scouring the web for military secrets, though not of the Julian Assange variety. Over black tea at a dark hotel bar in downtown Los Angeles, Heyward and I sit next to each other, noses to a laptop as he searches on Whisper, the mobile service he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64942,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11820\/revisions\/64942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}