Recently, a Pennsylvania newspaper started using Pinterest to post pictures of wanted criminals in the area. It worked.
An outage of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia has taken down Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services. According to numerous Twitter updates and our own checks, all three services are unavailable as of Friday evening at 9:10 p.m. PT.
Amazon’s service health dashboard indicates that there are power issues in its North Virginia data center, most likely caused by severe storms in the region.
OH GOD THE POWER IS OUT AND NETFLIX IS DOWN. WHAT DO I DO? — Ernie @ SFB
Update (7:45 a.m.): Netflix and Pinterest? Back up. (Hearing word Instagram is still down, though.) Bigger problem? The power’s still out. More than 2 million lost power in the Mid-Atlantic region last night. Mind you, it was insanely hot yesterday, so this is bad.
I find it more interesting that man-culture would feel the need to carve out a corner of the social networking sandbox at all, when the Internet is such an expansive beach of dude. The Web was laid on a foundation of porn, built with walls of lewd jokes, shingled on top with the discussion strains of a Reddit board.Washington Post Reporter Monica Hesse • Debating the validity of a site called Dudepins, which is — you guessed it — an attempt to build Pinterest for men. Dudepins isn’t so much the male-oriented Pinterest as the 2004-era Spike TV version of Pinterest, a version of Pinterest so obsessed with mandom that it looks like it’s trying too hard, to the point where non-manly things are taken down. While growth is happening quickly, according to its owners, we’d like to offer up an anecdote from a movie that’s decidedly not manly, “Mean Girls”: “Stop trying to make fetch happen!”
Pinterest already has become an attractive destination in particular for Facebook-ers who are looking for the thrill of a small startup versus working for the big company. Pinterest has about 40 employees. Five of the top positions are filled by former Facebook employees.
Key sign you’re not cool anymore? All the hipsters at your company move on, like moths to a light source. (thanks Greg Bufithis)
Francisco Guerrero, founder of Pinterest analytics site, Pintics, which we introduced to you in March says that he’s more than happy to offer her a position with them. Pointing out Jeanne’s Pinterest CV to The Next Web, Francisco told us, “Based on this she totally should at least get a call from Pinterest.” He also told us, if she doesn’t, she now has the option of becoming the Vice President of Marketing at Pintics. So if you’re tuning in Jeanne – get in touch with Pintics on Twitter, as you might have just landed yourself a job! (via Pinterest User Turns a Pinterest Board into a CV)
OK, who’s gonna be the first person to create a resume using Tagged?
Spotted in DC today: Local salad chain Sweetgreen turned the front of its still-under-construction new location into a giant Pinterest board. They’re more clever than we are. (photo by Ernie @ SFB)
Pinterest, in Facebook form: A new Facebook app called PinView gives Facebook the kind of Pinterest-y flow that’s all the rage these days. Timelines are old news, apparently.
Are these pictures of desserts worth $7.7 billion? TheStreet.com, Jim “Mad Money” Cramer’s Web site, seems to think so: “Facebook values Instagram at $1 billion and LinkedIn has a market cap of $10 billion. Twitter claims it is worth $8 billion. So where does that leave the new kid on the block Pinterest? Well, it looks like you can pin $7.7 billion on your Pinterest board.” The site claims that the site’s soaring traffic places it in the upper echelon of social media valuations. But don’t get too crazy yet. Mashable reports that the exponential growth TheStreet sites may be slowing. Uh, it might be a little early to trust this. (via Melvin Martinez of The Martinez Report) source
According to this chart released by digital marketing company Experian, Pinterest is the third-most-used social network, Facebook had 7 billion visits last month (miles ahead of every other social network on the list), and some site named Tagged is more popular than Google+. Buyin’ this?
So, this is what a promotional campaign on Pinterest looks like. (Thanks Panera, though you’re looking way more like Caribou in this photo.) Would you pin this? About 200 people have so far.
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Wrote a thing.
Hat tip to this headline writer.
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Don’t screw this up Yahoo.
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve been working on an update to our Terms. When we first launched Pinterest, we used a standard set of Terms. We think that the updated Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and Privacy Policy are easier to understand and better reflect the direction our…
Among other things: Pinterest took out the “sell” clause in their terms of service, which was a major source of controversy. “Selling content was never our intention and we removed this from our updated Terms,” the post says. Also, like Tumblr, the site now explicitly forbids self-harm posts. (ht @AntDeRosa)
A big get that could make Pinterest more valuable: Tim Kendall has joined the Pinterest team, according to an exclusive interview with CEO Ben Silbermann published by Fortune this morning. As the former Director of Monetization for Facebook, Kendall was responsible for creating the vast majority of the company’s early money-making strategies. Now, a year removed from his time at the house Mark Zuckerberg built, Tim will be responsible for finding ways to monetize the web’s next up-and-coming social network. source
Some people can only handle so much Ryan Gosling. The sudden rise of Pinterest, which surged in popularity around the first of the year (as this chart illustrates perfectly), seems to have caught some off guard, with many questioning the phenomenon much the same way Twitter initially got criticized for being about nothing. But with the site already the subject of copyright questions (in one case making a lawyer and Pinterest fan totally freak out), it was only a matter of time before the deep-thought hand-wringing began. A couple of notable samples we’ve seen recently:
» A couple quick thoughts of our own: It’s possible that the success of Pinterest may reach a little bit of a plateau at some point because of the shape it’s already taken. It’s growing quickly, but the best social networks are formless in terms of the content. Anything goes on Tumblr for the most part, for example; same with Twitter and Facebook. With Pinterest, the culture has kind of limited what can work there, at least for now. It feels like, even if it hasn’t been spelled out, the parameters have been partially defined. And for businesses, minus a few obvious verticals (say, you sell clothes or artwork) Pinterest is not necessary or even desirable for building a strong brand. It could be, though, if it was repositioned slightly. These are some of the things the site will struggle with as it tries to grow. if we were them, we’d figure out ways to encourage shapelessness, so as not to scare new users off.
A somewhat different take on the thing we reblogged earlier, but it shows two very interesting things: First, Tumblr and Pinterest are timesucks in equal measure, and second, nobody’s actually hanging around Google+ once they sign up. The latter is the subject of this super-interesting Wall Street Journal piece. (EDIT: A good point: Don’t take that Twitter number at face value, as this graphic skips two key elements of the Twitter experience — mobile and third-party apps.)
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