Apps & Platforms

Concepts Noah has found here

• Short-form video platforms

  1/2 places

  A Chinese-owned algorithm-driven platform for user-generated short video that became one of the world's largest social media services and a vector for viral trends, creator economies, and geopolitical controversy.

  • Vine (service)

• Viral mobile games

  0/2 places

• Sudden spike and collapse

  2/2 places

  A deliberately minimalist phone game that became a sleeper hit through social virality, generated massive ad revenue, and was abruptly withdrawn by its creator citing concerns about addiction.

  • Flappy Bird
  • Pokémon Go

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Apps & Platforms

Vine (service)

Six-second videos that made creators before TikTok

“Six seconds was enough to invent a comic language, and not enough to own it.”

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Apps & Platforms

Pokémon Go

GPS game that sent millions outside to catch virtual creatures

“For one summer, millions of people walked real streets chasing coordinates only their phones could see.”

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Apps & Platforms

Flappy Bird

A phone game so addictive its creator deleted it

“The most downloaded game on earth, taken down by the man who made it because he thought it was too addictive.”

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