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How Pinterest is secretly profiting from your links
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Is surprise-hit Pinterest covertly capitalizing on the product-sharing behaviors of its burgeoning user base? Evidence amassed by insightful observers suggests as much. Pinterest is the invite-only digital pin-board site where people, mostly arts and crafts enthusiasts between the ages of 25 and 44, “pin” products, recipes, and photos to themed...
Pinterest-Like Web Store Wisemarkit Pays Members For Sales
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We've seen the numbers: Pinterest is turning out to be a real driver of purchases on the Internet, and Pinterest users spend more cash on average than members of other social networks. So why doesn't Pinterest have an affiliate program so that you get paid whenever someone buys a product...
The President now pinning on Pinterest
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Hello, Pinterest? The President is calling. Taking inspiration from the legions of web denizens (and potential voters) already hip to the “pinning” crazy, U.S. President Barack Obama is now sharing his collection of favorite politically-themed things and family recipes on Pinterest. “Organizers, infographics, murals, and cake — now pinning...
Flickr teams with Pinterest, releases share button for proper photo attribution
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Flickr and Pinterest have teamed up to provide photo-pinners with a simple tool for inspired sharing. Tuesday, Flickr released a share to Pinterest button that will ensure all pinners past and present properly attribute images plucked from Flickr to the source of their inspiration. click to enlarge Pinterest is...
Pinterest grew 52% to 17.8M unique visitors in February
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Love was most certainly in the air for digital pin-board site Pinterest during the month of the February. The princess of the Internet was the object of everyone’s attention and saw more than 17.8 million unique U.S. visitors in February, according to analytics firm comScore. The still private-beta Pinterest,...
Pinterest not a pirate anymore, helps site owners disable pins
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By way of the “pin,” accidental thieves exchange copyrighted content on digital pin-board site Pinterest. To thwart any lawsuits in the making, the much talked-about startup has given disgruntled site owners a way to stop piracy before it starts. Pinterest is the up-and-coming social site that encourages members to...
Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra said to be leaving company
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Is there trouble in Pinterest’s paradise? Paul Sciarra, co-founder of digital pin-board sensation Pinterest, is said to be on his way out the door. Sciarra will be leaving the company as soon as next week, according to a report form Startup Grind, which said it confirmed the departure with...
Rich men love Pinterest too (infographic)
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Scrap everything you think you know about the people of Pinterest. Pinterest, the insanely buzzy invite-only digital pin-board site, has been pegged as the online place where 35 to 44 year-old Suzy homemakers congregate to swap recipes and fashion finds. That characterization may be true of members in the U.S.,...
Could Pinterest already be worth $500M?
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Digital pin-board site Pinterest is scorching hot. People are pinning like crazy. Publishers are benefiting from an uptick in Pinterest-driven traffic. And venture capitalists are tripping over themselves to get a piece of the social property. But does all this interest warrant a $500 million valuation, especially without any...
The surprising content category taking over Pinterest
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Home and garden, arts and crafts, style and fashion, these are the categories that everyone presumes dominate on red-hot digital pin-board site Pinterest. But the people of Pinterest, according to new data, are less cookie-cutter and more cookie-maker. In fact, food is the fastest-growing and most viral category on...
Pinterest iPad app and new profile pages in the works
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Pin-board startup Pinterest will soon launch new profile pages and an iPad app, important steps that will help the company solidify its status as 2012′s hottest startup. Pinterest was launched in 2010, but in the past six months it has seen astronomical growth and now counts as one of...
23 Incredible Images That Show Why Pinterest Is A $1.5 Billion Company
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Pinterest is a virtual pin board; users can tag photos they find inspiring and save them for later. It's a collage that can be shared among the community. Even though it has yet to make a dime, the startup just raised a massive $100 million round of financing at a...
Pinterest for Android at Google IO not likely, company says
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An app for Pinterest, the website that lets you share photos in a “pin-board” fashion, may be arriving on Android soon. The company reportedly is listed as among exhibitors coming to this week’s Google IO, a gathering of Android-related developers. Pinterest is listed in the Google IO app as “Now...
Flickr disables Pinterest pins on all copyrighted images (exclusive)
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As the third most popular source of content on digital pin-board site Pinterest, Flickr and its photographers are subject to frequent acts of copyright infringement. But a site-wide update to Flickr promises to better project members and their copyrighted works. The Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site has just added Pinterest’s newly...
Pinterest keeps and engages members better than Twitter, data shows (exclusive)
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To pin or not to pin is not a question on Pinterest. In fact, according to data gathered by e-commerce analytics platform RJMetrics, Pinterest retains a remarkably high percentage of new users who go on to pin at high rates and stay active on the site long after they’ve...
Americans spend 100K years on Facebook each month (infographic)
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From posting status updates to consuming news, the collective time Americans spend on Facebook amounts to more than 100,000 years each month. The eye-popping figure comes by way of statistics portal Statista. The company pulled data from comScore, Compete and Google Ad Planner on social network usage in the...
Pinterest allows impersonators free range—but for how long?
arstechnica.com
Each new social media service that crosses the threshold of public awareness sees two things: brands and celebrities rushing in to find out if they can use the service to their advantage and, right before that, squatters and jokers who got to the brand name first. The latest to...
Flickr Blocks Pinterest Users From Posting Copyrighted Content
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(flickr.com/rasamalai/5949864741/) As Betabeat reported Tuesday, Flickr is making major changes--and apparently getting serious about protecting user copyright is among them. Late Friday VentureBeat published an exclusive on Flickr's new move to combat copyright infringement by Pinterest, the wildly popular darling of digital image curators everywhere: The Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site has...
The Super Simple Guide to Using and Marketing Through Pinterest - Part One
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by Jennifer Cario Pinterest is a virtual pin board that allows you to collect images and links to things you like on the web. If you've ever seen someone pull out a scrapbook filled with recipe clippings or a binder full of wedding or home remodel ideas, you've got the...
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