Pinterest adds support for Slideshare, Etsy, Kickstarter, Soundcloud
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Image-sharing site Pinterest will now automatically attribute content pinned from 500px, Kickstarter, SlideShare and SoundCloud. Read more »
Video chat startup Lutebox dumps plan A, goes shopping
What do you do when Google and Sean Parker kill your idea? Change direction. That’s what Ali Ahmed and his videochat startup Lutebox have done, switching from the idea of helping people chat about premium videos to focusing on social shopping. Read more »
Pinterest, Palantir & harsh reality of SF real estate
To say that Silicon Valley real estate market is hot would be an understatement. Start-ups are are pushing the rents to stratospheric heights in parts of Silicon Valley. Thanks to fast growing companies like Pinterest, the real estate market is going to get even hotter. Read more »
Pinterest locked in stalemate with image owners
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Image-sharing site Pinterest has been in negotiations for months with photo service Getty. A breakthrough could dispel some of the copyright questions hanging over the red-hot start-up — but one expert says not to hold your breath. Read more at paidContent »
Should we treat addictive web apps like drugs?
What if Facebook is nothing more than a digital drug dealer and we’re all just junkies? As we head toward a future where technology is not just something we do, but a part of our biology, the answer to that question might take on grave importance. Read more »
Now Pinterest e-mails users asking them to come back often
Now that Pinterest has a big new investor and a $1.5 billion valuation, it needs to keep users engaged. One good way to do that is through e-mail. Read more at paidContent »
What’s next for Pinterest: $1 billion valuation and a business model?
Image-sharing site Pinterest is reportedly close to announcing a new funding round that values it at over $1 billion and includes a new social commerce investor. Read more at paidContent »
Crowdsourced stationery startup Minted expands into art
Stationery startup Minted, which crowdsources designs for wedding invitations, holiday cards and other correspondence, is now selling crowdsourced art prints. It is also adding Pinterest-like curation boards. Read more at paidContent »
Pinterest vs. Facebook: Whose users spend more?
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Apparently Pinterest users drop cash, then run. Jewelry and accessories website Boticca.com compared 50,000 shoppers referred from Pinterest to 50,000 shoppers referred from Facebook and says the Pinterest users spend way more money — $180 vs. $85 — but less time browsing the site. Read more »
Doodle.ly wants to be Twitter for drawings
If drawing is the universal language, Doodle.ly wants to be the app for that. But first it has to solve a problem: A lot of people are pretty bad at drawing. Read more »
Pinterest plans local-language launches
Pinterest is planning to roll out internationally. That could help it get ahead of copycat sites and gain users worldwide. To start, the company is seeking translators in French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish. Read more at paidContent »
Pinterest adds attribution for Flickr, Behance, Vimeo, YouTube
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Pinterest is making it easier to “pin and credit content creators” by adding automatic attribution for content pinned from Flickr, creative network Behance, and video sites Vimeo and YouTube. Read more at paidContent »
TheFind launches Glimpse, a Pinterest rival built on Facebook likes
TheFind, a shopping search site with a trove of product data, is going after Pinterest with the launch of Glimpse, a new Facebook shopping discovery app that curates shopping pages for users based on their likes, as well the stuff their friends like. Read more »
Snapguide is the first mobile app with Pinterest integration
Snapguide, the three-week-old iPhone and web app that lets users create “how-to” guides with pictures and videos, is now the first mobile app to integrate with Pinterest for “seamless sharing.” Read more at paidContent »
Instagram rival EyeEm expands to WinPhone and web
It may be smaller than its Facebook-owned rival, but EyeEm is rapidly building up support for its discovery-focused photo-sharing service — and hopes to continue with a newly released Windows Phone app and a heavily revamped web service. Read more »
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Social media in Q1: commerce and discovery dominated
Media issues like advertising and discovery along with commerce dominated the activity in social and real-time Web technologies during the first quarter. Google raised some hackles, Facebook responded to demands from traditional advertisers, and Yahoo got a new chief executive. Read more in the full report. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Fancy hits 500,000 users with Pinterest-like social shopping service
Pinterest-like discovery site Fancy rolled out a new social commerce platform in February, letting brands and retailers sign up to be a seller on any item that’s been fancied on the site. That has helped Fancy double its user base to 500,000 users. Read more »
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Controversy, courtrooms and the cloud in Q1
In the first quarter of 2012 all eyes were on the screen, both big and small. Apple’s new Retina display pushed video streaming, and broadcast-TV streaming service Aereo’s launch was quickly followed with litigation. These events and more are discussed in a new quarterly report. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Startup growth and the new recruiting ecosystem
The recruiting ecosystem is changing, led by professional social networks like LinkedIn and Viadeo and companies like Jobvite and BranchOut, which are building Facebook apps for hiring and career development. The bottom line is that technology enables the recruiting process to be more streamlined, scientific and democratic. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Evernote & Pinterest just had a baby: Enter the new Springpad
Springpad has long been compared to Internet note-taking sensation Evernote, but starting today Springpad will likely be compared to another darling of the startup world, Pinterest. On Wednesday Springpad evolved into its third iteration, transforming the information capture service into a social networking engine. Read more »
Amazon, eBay add tiny Pinterest buttons
Pinterest users can now pin Amazon and eBay finds to their boards directly from product pages. Read more at paidContent »
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Flash analysis: future opportunities for Pinterest
Has Pinterest created an entirely new way for users to share content? A survey conducted on GigaOM asked just that question, and a new GIgaOM Pro report delves into the various implications for the social network. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Pinterest cofounder leaves for VC firm Andreessen Horowitz
It’s official: Following reports yesterday that he was stepping down as CEO, Pinterest cofounder Paul Sciarra confirmed that he is leaving the company. Read more at paidContent »
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Pinterest reawakens Napster-style debate over copyright
Pinterest’s recent changes to get on the right side of copyright law highlight how the legal system continues to lag behind what the Internet makes possible. Until that issue is resolved, virtually every Internet-powered content-sharing service is at risk. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Photographers Drag Amazon Into Pinterest Copyfight
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) will accept responsibility for copyright complaints related to popular image-sharing site Pinterest, a photographers’ lo… Read more at paidContent »
Pinterest comes under spam attack
Now that social curation site Pinterest has become the hot-new social thing, with loads of traffic and highly addicted community, it seems to be time for spammers to take advantage of its traffic and intense virality. Earlier this evening the company came under a spam attack. Read more »
How The Media Can Use Pinterest To Drive Traffic And Revenue
Media owners may be spooked by Pinterest’s controversial re-use of copyrighted content – but they could have plenty to gain from embracing,… Read more at paidContent »
TheComplete.me wants to be the Pinterest of dating
TheComplete.me, a new social dating service formed by former Match.com executives, is looking to leverage social networking and hyper-personalization and self expression to create a network that’s akin to the Pinterest of dating. It opened up in beta today. Read more »
Chill’s take on social video: Everyone is an expert
Social video startup Chill has seen huge traffic gains since it launched curated collections of videos last week. Chill co-founder Brian Norgard explains why collections are so important and what Chill learned from completely changing its core product twice in recent months. Read more »
Fancy turns social discovery into social commerce
Fancy, a self-expression social site, is launching a new demand-driven commerce model today that will let vendors and retailers sign up to be a seller on any item fancied on the site. They will be able to conduct the transaction right on Fancy. Read more »
The Pinfluence Of Pinterest: Magazines And More Delight In Découpage
If Pinterest is attracting heat for copying publishers’ content, perhaps it’s only fair that publishers give the same treatment to the buddi… Read more at paidContent »
What’s Facebook mean for early developers? Huge traffic, apparently.
Facebook released some metrics around early partners for its app platform, showing how the apps affect their traffic. The results? Partners like Pinterest, Fab.com, Artfinder, Foodspotting and Foodily are seeing large increases in the number of users connecting to their sites. Read more »
When is the social curation bubble going to burst?
French startup Pearltrees just scored another $6 million to help scale up its social curation service that helps people save, sort and share what they find on the web. But with dozens of services in play, is this a bubble waiting to pop? Read more »
Pinterest: Is It A Facebook Or A Grokster?
Copyright clouds are gathering around Pinterest. And that could make the dreamy image site an unlikely successor to other innovators — from… Read more at paidContent »
Lessons from Path and Pinterest: Tell users everything
Path and Pinterest are getting some significant backlash because of recent decisions that appeared to put their interests ahead of their users and a lack of disclosure about that behavior. It’s a welcome reminder that the trust of users is not something to be taken lightly. Read more »
How Marc Andreessen makes Silicon Valley magic
At just 2.5 years old, Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, has become a tech industry institution with holdings in Facebook, Twitter, and more. GigaOM talked with Andreessen to get his thoughts on Silicon Valley and the larger tech landscape. Read more »
Apple, Internet and the constant new normal
When Apple announced blockbuster earnings earlier this month, we were all shocked. A few days later, when comScore announced that little-known startup Pinterest had cracked the social network top ten, we were surprised. We shouldn’t be: This is the new normal for our technology-driven society. Read more »
Bigger than Google+, MySpace isn’t dead yet
MySpace, the grand daddy of social is still wheezing along, comScore says. In fact it is bigger than Tumblr and Google Plus. Infact, people spend more time on MySpace, a dying platform than on Google Plus. Pinterest just cracked the top ten list! Read more »
You are what you curate: why Pinterest is hawt
Pinterest is one of the hottest startups around these days and represents the latest buzzword in the Valley: curation. Here are some of my thoughts on why Pinterest and other such companies are getting attention and gaining traction with younger Internet users. Read more »
