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This past Tuesday, image-sharing site Pinterest released some updates for its iOS 2.4 and Android 1.4 apps, which now include an activities notification feature, the ability to mention and notify a Pinterest friend in a pin comment or note, plus search term suggestions.
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Pinterest is a fascinating website that reveals the things people like, love, desire, and covet. For those that have so far remained immune to its lure, Pinterest operates on the basis of images found across the Web, with people pinning these images to their boards for others to either drool over or mock. Pinterest is, at heart, a social network, but one which rids itself of everything but pictures... lots and lots of pictures.
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The Bing vs. Google race has just become tighter with the launch of Bing's new Pinterest integration. The new feature adds a handy "Pin it" button to every image result on Bing, making it possible to pin it to your Pinterest boards without needing to go to the actual website, or even open the full-size version of the image.
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Pinterest is, for the uninitiated among you, a social network which revolves around images, with users pinning pictures of anything and everything in vast collections. It's an intriguing idea which seems to resonate mostly with women, hence Pinterest grew quickly and gained a lot of female users through the course of 2012. However, it also has numerous detractors and some highly questionable content.
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After teasing its new look during the recent launch of its Web analytics service, Pinterest has started rolling out a complete redesign of its website to all users. The invitation to the new look will arrive as an email from Pinterest, but you can head over to pinterest.com right now and check if you can switch to the new look from your settings menu.
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Pinterest has introduces Web analytics, helping website owners get a better idea of what content is being pinned from their site. The newly introduced feature could help you answer the simplest question – “how is Pinterest affecting my website?”. Aside from knowing ?which? content is being pinned, website owners will be able to find out how these pins are doing on Pinterest, and how users are interacting with them once they've been pinned.
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Pinterest, the visual social network, was all the rage last year. In the span of just several months, almost everyone I know joined the network, and the pinning craze was at its height. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not implying that the Pinterest craze is over, but as with every big social network, it slowly sank stabilized as a place we go to for eye-candy, food photos, beautiful ideas, and other such things.
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Zendesk, the email and contact support client used by Tumblr, Twitter, and Pinterest, has been compromised, and user's email addresses have been stolen during the breach. Tumblr is sending out emails informing users of the situation, but Twitter and Pinterest are also seeing the same ill effects.
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Social networking site Pinterest can be pretty addictive, with good reason, but it can also be an incredibly useful site. While we know it's easy to waste many an hour on Pinterest, being less than productive, there are a also lot of great ways you can use Pinterest to get more organized, or to get noticed.
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It's no secret we're big fans of Pinterest here at MakeUseOf. The virtual pinning board of the Internet has helped us while away many an hour, getting lost in the many photos, ideas and posts that the site has to offer. For the geek, Pinterest can be the ultimate source of inspiration, and a great way to discover new and interesting things. For that reason, we've put together a list of geeky Pinterest users you should be following.
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Pinterest, the visual social network, has been with us for quite a while, but has only recently joined the mobile world with its own official app. Pinterest is not the first social network to be late with its mobile apps; Facebook, for example, did not release an official iPad app until last year, and when it did, I wasn’t too overwhelmed. For these reasons, it took me a while to realize that an official Pinterest app was really out there.
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The popular virtual bookmarking site, Pinterest posted this week information and updates about its new set of terms of agreement for e-commerce and general users. Pinterest business users such as retailers, online merchants, publications, designers, institutions or local businesses will be required to sign up for a Pinterest business account, which will provide them a verification badge, an official "Pin It" and "Follow" button, a Profile or Board widget, and access to upcoming marketing features. Existing businesses on Pinterest can use a very simple convert form to apply for the new requirements.
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Nothing used to be private on Pinterest. Every single pin had a global audience. If you were among the ones hankering for some secluded corner on Pinterest, here’s some cheer just before the holidays. Pinterest has brought in ‘Secret boards’. The secret boards will allow you to add pins but keep them away from the prying eyes of the world.
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Since the Pinterest explosion, which has admittedly recently died down a little, there have been all sorts of clones popping up left and right catering to niche audiences, or even just unabashedly copying the social networking site. One social network that has already earned itself comparisons to Pinterest is Fancy, by allowing users to save and share photos on boards, with the difference of calling them 'lists' instead of 'boards.'
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Pinterest is one of the fastest-growing social networks of the past year, and has attracted many fans who love to share their world in visual ways. Alas, with its growing popularity, also comes its growing potential as a scam platform, where spammers supposedly make more than $1,000 a day. It’s not only scams that you have to beware of, though. Like any other growing platform, Pinterest has its threats, security holes, etc.
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