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Thursday, 9th May 2013

Why Pinterest Could Be Worth Far More Than $2.5 Billion

Why Pinterest Could Be Worth Far More Than $2.5 Billion

How can a company that has never even attempted to make a penny be worth $2.5 billion? Yes, billion. It's all about passion.

Social Derek Brown comments

Wednesday, 17th April 2013

Social Networking For Marketers: How Pinterest Crushes Facebook [Infographic]

Social Networking For Marketers: How Pinterest Crushes Facebook [Infographic]

Pinterest has a higher concentration of people who are in a ‘buy’ state of mind, while Facebook users are more interested in interacting with friends - and brands.

Enterprise Justin Smith comments

Friday, 22nd February 2013

Zendesk Hack Compromises User Data Of Twitter, Tumblr & Pinterest

Zendesk Hack Compromises User Data Of Twitter, Tumblr & Pinterest

Zendesk hack indirectly compromises user data from Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest. Look out for Phishing expeditions.

Hack Nick Statt comments

Wednesday, 5th December 2012

Microsoft's Socl Network Opens: Are You Ready To Ride The Firehose?

Microsoft's Socl Network Opens: Are You Ready To Ride The Firehose?

Microsoft's Socl social network, now open to all, is big, bright, and beautiful. Think of it as a more verbose Pinterest, with a bit of Google+ thrown in.

Social Mark Hachman comments

Friday, 28th September 2012

The Key To Social Network Success: Rip Off Pinterest?

The Key To Social Network Success: Rip Off Pinterest?

Your social network has fallen from its 2006-era prime. You need to reposition yourself and regain the attention of users who have long since moved on. What do you do? Take a page from the Pinterest playbook.

Social John Paul Titlow comments

Tuesday, 25th September 2012

How Journalists Are Using Pinterest

How Journalists Are Using Pinterest

Pinterest is quickly finding its way into the social strategies of media organizations large and small, even as the company itself is still figuring out its business model. Here's how they're using the virtual scrapbooking service. (Part 2 of a 4-part series on how journalists are using social networks beyond Facebook and Twitter.)

Social John Paul Titlow comments

Friday, 29th June 2012

Pinterest: The Next Social Frontier for Music

Pinterest: The Next Social Frontier for Music

Pinterest is steadily growing out of the stereotype that it's just for sharing recipes and planning weddings. The social scrapbook already plays a central role in the social media strategies of visual artists, publishers and certain types of businesses. Now, with the addition of features for pinning music and video, musicians are catching…

Social John Paul Titlow comments

Monday, 18th June 2012

Why Pinterest Has NOT Reimagined Scrapbooking

Why Pinterest Has NOT Reimagined Scrapbooking

There's been a lot of talk in the tech community that Pinterest has changed the popular art of scrapbooking. Internet analyst Mary Meeker even suggested that Pinterest had reimagined scrapbooking. But after looking at how two scrapbooking gurus are using Pinterest, our conclusion is that the lucrative scrapbook market is still ripe for…

Social Richard MacManus comments

Friday, 8th June 2012

Top 20 Pinterest Personalities (It's Not Who You Think)

Top 20 Pinterest Personalities (It's Not Who You Think)

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it's no wonder that Pinterest is growing faster than Facebook and Twitter at the same point in their histories. It’s not just Pinterest's incredibly fast growth, however, that makes it fascinating. While the most popular users on Facebook and Twitter are celebrities and consumer…

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Thursday, 17th May 2012

Pinterest's $100 Million Infusion: It's the E-Commerce, Stupid

Social bookmarking site Pinterest has landed a $100 million round of funding on a $1.5 billion valuation today. The investment was led by Japanese e-commerce platform Rakuten. By taking money from a foreign technology company, Pinterest bucks the trend of U.S. startups clamoring for money from U.S. venture capital firms. Rakuten’s funding and…

Social Dan Rowinski comments

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