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More about badges | Request a badge Washingtologist Badge Washingtologists consistently post thought-provoking, timely comments on events, communities, and trends in the Washington area. Post Writer Badge. Controversy Wont Hurt The Lorax at the Box Office. Pinterest: Just what exactly is on it? 2 March 2012Last updated at 10:48 By Lauren Everitt BBC News Magazine Hype is growing about the social media website Pinterest, with much fanfare after it passed 10 million users in record time.
But what is actually on this online pinboard? There's still a healthily high percentage of people who have heard nothing about Pinterest, but its meteoric rise is exciting social media experts and marketing analysts. Nearly 12 million users from the US and UK flocked to the virtual bulletin board in January to pin up pictures of their favourite things. Pinterest allows users to curate collections of images from across the web under different "boards" or categories. Google: Technology is making science fiction a reality. Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality - meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots at their command and the ability to experience being in another place without leaving home.
Schmidt said the introduction of books available online, Internet translation of languages and voice recognition for computers all happened much faster than anyone envisioned and that technological research into even more previously unheard of advances is progressing at a fast clip. "People who predict that holograms and self-driving cars will become reality soon are absolutely right," Schmidt told thousands of attendees at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the planet's largest cell phone trade show. Schmidt stepped down as Google's chief executive last year but has remained the company's chief representative in the public eye. "It has an off button and it is here on the right," Schmidt said.