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Pinterest expands attributions, gives credit where credit’s due

silicon republic :: While popular with its 10.4m (mostly female) members, Pinterest has been quite the bone of contention with certain sites who feel that pins of their content aren’t sufficiently credited. However, Pinterest is addressing this problem by providing automated attribution for some of the web’s creative communities.

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When is Pinterest's iPad, API, and Android app coming?

Business Insider :: For the past few summers, Facebook has gone into what management calls "lockdown" mode, where for a number of weeks the companies engineers stay later and work harder, getting several big product launches ready to go. This summer, hot social media startup Pinterest seems to be copying the idea. A source close to the company tells us that in the next 30 to 60 days, Pinterest plans to launch three massive products

Continue to read Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com

Perfect startup environment? Pinterest, Palantir & harsh reality of San Francisco real estate

GigaOM :: To say that Silicon Valley real estate market is hot would be an understatement. And no, Facebook millionaires buying mega-mansions has nothing to do with it. Instead it is start-ups who are helping push the rents to stratospheric heights in parts of Silicon Valley. It is hard to go to a San Francisco party and not meet a founder grumbling about being unable to find real-estate to house her growing number of troops.

Continue to read Om Malik, gigaom.com

HipSwap wants to be a Craigslist for the Pinterest set

GigaOM :: Second-hand stuff has never looked so sexy. Thanks to a redesign rolling out Thursday, HipSwap, an online marketplace for local goods, is now like a Craigslist re-imagined for Fab and Pinterest fans: Lots of pictures, curated collections, a personalized experience and the ability to socialize every item on the site.

Continue to read Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com

The New York Times is pinning ...

NewspapersOnPinterest.com :: The New York Times is finally pinning on Pinterest. The newspaper claimed its Pinterest account several weeks ago, but it wasn’t until about 18 hours ago that actual pins started appearing on the account’s four boards (Hair, Summer Escapes, Sweets, and Street Food).

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HT: Jeff Sonderman, here:

.@nytimes just joined Pinterest. How they're using it: bit.ly/MeLNbr

— Jeff Sonderman ✎ (@jeffsonderman) June 6, 2012

Pinterest users nearly twice as likely to purchase: Facebook to get ideas

Market Watch :: When it comes to online social shopping, Pinterest users are far more likely to purchase items they see posted on the site compared to the purchasing behavior of Facebook users viewing items they've seen on the news feed or a friend's wall, according to a new survey released today from SteelHouse (www.SteelHouse.com), a behavioral commerce company.

However, Facebook remains consumers' top choice for getting ideas on what products and/or services to purchase and is also the preferred choice for social product sharing. More than one half of those surveyed said they regularly share their online purchases. 55%  percent of shoppers prefer to share their purchases on Facebook, followed by Twitter (22%), Pinterest (14%), and Instagram (5%).

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Pinterest metrics: PBS, USA Today engage with readers most effectively

Poynter :: Several websites, including this one, have published articles recently about how journalists are using Pinterest. But none of these offers data-based analyses that measure whether newsrooms are using Pinterest to engage effectively with readers. As a way of measuring engagement, follower counts are a basic metric. But knowing how critical the tweet to retweet ratio is for measuring engagement on Twitter, I sought to apply this principle to Pinterest.

A report by  Susanne Speier, www.poynter.org

Jason Goldberg, Fab.com (4.5m members): Work with Pinterest?

TechCrunch :: Fab.com CEO Jason Goldberg took the stage today at Disrupt, he laid out a grand vision for the site. Backing up that vision, he noted that Fab launched less than a year ago, and it already has 4.5 million members. “That’s not an e-commerce site, that’s a movement,” he said. If Fab.com is a movement, what are its goals?

Continue to read Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com

Japan's Rakuten wins the heart of Pinterest in $100m funding round

AllThingsD :: Rakuten, the largest e-commerce site in Japan, is expected to be the lead investor in the much-contested next round of funding for Silicon Valley’s hottest start-up, Pinterest. The funding is expected to be announced on Thursday morning (today). The current investors in Pinterest include Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital, as well several well-known angel investors.

Continue to read Liz Gannes | Kara Swisher, allthingsd.com

Sports editor makes Pinterest a Digital Ninja (j-)School project

Digital Ninja School :: From the perspective of a media outlet, Pinterest is a lot like Tumblr. One, the author isn’t important. Two, “pins” of more abstract and relatable themes are more successful (memes included). And three, there are lots of high school girls posting pictures of handsome actors. So what can a media outlet do (and do successfully) with Pinterest? That’s what I’ve been working on for the last few weeks.

HT: Garrett Goodman, at #nrsummit here:

Awesome journalism training concept from @mattderienzo RT @Gadzinski: My favorite idea of the morning so far: digitalninjaschool.com #nrsummit

— Garrett Goodman (@GarrettGoodman) May 10, 2012

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