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Pinterest Hits 10 Million Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever
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It’s beautiful, it’s addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly visitors, crossing the 10 million mark faster than any other standalone site in history. In fact, users are spending so much...
Pinterest is quietly generating revenue by modifying user submitted pins.
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I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a while after finishing a six part series of blog posts, but major developments keeping coming and no major news organizations see to be covering them. If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce...
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...
Repinly gives you insight into the most popular content on Pinterest
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As Pinterest’s growth show no signs of slowing down, a whole slew of third party applications and sites built around the social network are vying for ‘pinners’ attention, and Repinly is the latest one to make it on to our radar. Repinly is a Pinterest directory which makes it easy...
Attorney Says Pinterest Needs To Change It Digital Copyright Policy
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Questions continue to mount about Pinterest's uneasy relationship with copyright law, with one attorney (and avid Pinterest user) saying the company needs to upgrade its Digital Millenium Copyright Act policies or risk being shut down. Connie Mableson, an attorney in Phoenix, offers a point-by-point breakdown of where Pinterest's DMCA policy...
Here's The Secret, Clever Way Pinterest Is Making Money
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Pinterest is growing like crazy — but how does it actually plan to make money? Josh Davis over at LLSocial has a theory: Pinterest swaps out links on pins on Pinterest with "affiliate links," which will return some kind of commission of the person visiting the site buys the...
This Pinterest user turned her account into an online CV, and it’s landed her a job offer
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What do you do when you’re looking to get hired by a specific startup? If you’re Jeanne Hwang, and that startup happens to be Pinterest, well the obvious answer is create a Pinterest board saying as much. Jeanne Hwang is a Harvard Business School graduate, has six years work experience...
Amazon and Etsy are two of the most popular sources of content on Pinterest. Time to monetize?
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Zoomsphere, a social media statistics tool, is now giving users a little bit of insight into the most popular sources of content on Pinterest. Vying for the number one spot are Google and Etsy. At the time of writing this, Google is in the number one spot for daily pins, but that...
Floq map of Australian tech startups shows what’s up down under
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Not so long ago we had a little chat with Australian survey software startup Floq, which mentioned that it is using its own software to start a map of its home country, showing where the fresh new tech companies are emerging. True to its word, Floq has launched its interactive map...
Hackers crack Google Wallet security on rooted Galaxy Nexus [video]
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The security experts at zVelo have discovered a vulnerability in Google Wallet that allows them to “easily reveal” users’ PINs. If a Google Nexus is rooted, Google Wallet’s PIN verification system can be cracked using a brute force attack. zVelo said on Wednesday that it immediately reported its findings...
How Brands Are Using Pinterest - And What They Can Do Better
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This year's hottest new online service is undoubtedly Pinterest, the "virtual pinboard" website. Once a social site becomes popular with consumers, brands soon follow. In 2011 brands flocked to Google+ when it became the hot new thing. Now, in 2012, brands are beginning to make their way onto Pinterest....
This Is Everything You Need To Know About Pinterest (Infographic)
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Oh, Pinterest… Over the course of the past few months, what was once a colorful haven for Midwestern mothers and Mormons is now an even more colorful haven for even more pin-tastic peeps. The growth has been staggering, even in what many would call an overly social era. But surrounded...
Flickr Adds Pinterest Buttons To Photo Sharing; All Images Will Be Pinned With Attributions
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Yahoo-owned Flickr is one of the largest content sources for Pinterest, with users posting Flickr images on the pinboard sharing site in droves. But in order to Pin a Flickr photo on Pinterest, you had to use Pinterest’s own Pin button, and you couldn’t Pin photos to pinboards directly from...
App turns Android tabs into math tools for the visually impaired (video)
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Two high school students are taking part in a bit of an experiment at Vanderbilt University. The college's Medical and Electromechanical Design Laboratory (MED Lab) is working on an Android app that turns tablets into a teaching aid for the visually impaired. Areas of math that rely heavily on...
The how and why of a 4-inch iPhone
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It seems increasingly likely that the next iPhone will have a larger screen that is the same width as the current device, but taller, reaching 4″ diagonally. There are still some interesting things to consider about the why. Specifically, I’m interested in why exactly Apple feels that this move is...
Pinterest drives more revenue per click than Twitter or Facebook
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If you’re an e-commerce marketer and you’re not already on the Pinterest bandwagon, you need to hop on it as soon as you can. Pinterest is the first social network that’s delivering not only lots of traffic but also real revenue and lots of new customers. I know this because...
How Pinterest is Making Money
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Like a certain social network that came before it, Pinterest already appears to be doing a few things behind the scenes. CNN reports that the popular virtual pinboard social network site has been "appending affiliate links to some pins," particularly those featuring goods from Amazon, eBay, Target and thousands more...
Apple's Smaller iOS Device Dock Connector Said to Include 19 Pins
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Back in February, iMore reported that Apple was working on a smaller dock connector for its iOS devices, seeking to shave the size of the current 30-pin connector in order to allow its devices to shrink further and to provide space for other components. Rumors of the smaller dock connector...
Surprise! Liquidmetal Is Already Being Used In Apple Products (LQMT, AAPL)
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An interesting nugget of information was recently revealed by Liquidmetal Technologies CEO, Tom Steipp. Steipp announced that his company's technology is already being used in a commercial capacity, "on a number of accounts, most recently by Apple computer." 9to5Mac discovered the video below, which is possibly aimed at investors. However, Steipp doesn't...
Why Pinterest isn't just for girls
www.guardian.co.uk
There's a lot of talk about the new site where you can essentially make big lists of things and pictures that you like. But what does it look like from the inside?When I suggested I should write about Pinterest, the technology editor chortled in return: "Everyone says It Is For...
How Pinterest spammer 'Steve' reaps thousands of dollars a day with a network of fashion bots
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In an interview with The Daily Dot, a self-described 24-year-old man by the name of Steve details his devious bot-powered spam business that litters Pinterest with recommendations for things like dresses and boots from bogus accounts, and reaps thousands of dollars a day in Amazon affiliate payments. Last week,...
Raspberry Pi team teases camera add-on
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The Raspberry Pi $35 Linux computer, which is equipped with a 700MHz processor, 256MB of RAM, an SD card slot, two USB ports, an Ethernet jack and both HDMI and RCA outputs, will soon feature support for a camera add-on. The current prototype features a 14-megapixel camera that can...
Pinterest pins down funds from Japanese e-commerce giant
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Rakuten is expected to invest $50 million as part of a round that values the social photo-sharing site at $1.5 billion, according to an All Things D report. [Read more]...
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...
Bing Maps Updates Map Pins, Adds Drag & Drop Routes & More
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The Bing Maps Blog announced several enhancements to Bing Maps. In summary, the changes include: A refresh to the Pushpin buttons and Popup menu Transit symbols and icons were improved Added sharing options to transit directions Ability to now drag to modify your route The explore venue maps option... Please...
Game appoints administrators but PwC pins hopes on sell-off
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PwC's Mike Jervis said they were 'hopeful' that a buyer could be found for the chain which has nearly 6,000 UK staff 600 UK storesVideo games specialist Game has officially entered administration with the appointment of PwC ahead of a swift restructuring that is expected to result in heavy job...
How much is a tweet worth? About 1/10,000 as much as a Yelp review
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Tweets, status updates, pins, check-ins: They may seem trivial to you, but they’re valuable content to social networking companies. For example: Next time you make an update in Path, consider that you just helped that company make 50 cents in revenue. Just how much value do you represent to...
Who's Winning The Battle For The Interest Graph: Facebook, Google+ or Twitter?
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Do you use Google+ more than Facebook? Are you an avid Twitter user, but not so active on Google+? Do you auto-share online media, such as songs or news articles, onto Facebook? These are just some of the questions being asked in the ongoing evolution of the "Interest Graph," succinctly...
Startup studio Science acquires ‘Klout for Pinterest’
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Pinpuff, a Klout-like startup for Pinterest, launched by a 20-year-old from India, is Los Angeles-bound. Startup studio Science announced Tuesday that it is acquiring the small startup and moving its founder Ammrita Sharma to its California headquarters. Michael Jones, the former MySpace CEO who launched Science, said Pinpuff came on...
President Obama Joins Pinterest
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Who says Pinterest is a social networking site just for females? Don’t tell that to President Barack Obama, who today became one of Pinterest’s newest members. The Obama campaign announced the Pinterest account today via Twitter, and the followers are already flocking to see his pins... Please visit Marketing Land...
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