Why Pinterest's simple platform is so powerful
Investors, advertisers, and retailers have about 11 billion reasons to keep their eyes on Pinterest. That number, by the way, is Pinterest's...
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Generation App
Generation App is a window into the world of millennials, through the apps and online services they love and share with their friends. In GeekWire's new weekly podcast, digital natives schoo...
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8 episodes
Twitch: Examining the ‘magic’ that compelled viewers watch 460K years worth of video last year
Twitch has an average 1.7 million broadcasters streaming each month and in 2015 Twitch viewers watched more than 459,000 years worth of vide...
Pokémon Go: The bizarre, fascinating phenomenon, explained
By now, the internet buzz, strange behavior on the streets, and watercooler talk have probably alerted you to the overnight sensation that i...
WhatsApp: Demystifying the world's most popular messaging tool
WhatsApp has quickly but quietly become the world’s most popular messaging app. It has a base of over a billion users worldwide and was acqu...
Tinder, ‘hookup culture,’ and modern romance
Tinder is spreading like wildfire, facilitating over 26 million matches and 1.4 billion swipes per day. The swiping model has been replicate...
Who needs cable anyway? Why so many people are cutting the cord
If you ask the average person in their 20s how they watch TV, there’s a good chance they won’t say cable. The rise of stand-alone streaming...
Why do we still use Craigslist?
Over the past two decades, Craigslist has maintained its market share in the online classified space, despite neglecting to make any major u...
Is Waze a life-saver or public menace? Why the driving app is so polarizing
Traffic, like root canals, mosquitos, and papercuts, is a universally hated phenomenon. So it stands to reason that an app for “outsmarting...