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How will Facebook respond to the growth of Pinterest? A look at the social network’s history with competition
A report from marketing services company Experian says Pinterest is the third most popular social network in the U.S. after Facebook and Twitter. In past years when a social platform started to get traction as Pinterest has, Facebook responded by launching features inspired by its would-be competitors. There was the switch to a real-time feed in response to Twitter and the addition of check-ins when Foursquare was hot.Pinterest may be an Internet hit — especially with U.S. women and Facebook CEOs. But not all companies want to ride the pinboard wave of referral traffic. Now Pinterest has released code for companies that want to block the pinning of content from their sites to personal pinboards. Pinterest recently released the code in their help section, which companies can copy and paste into their websites, prompting a message with each pin attempt that states: “This site doesn’t allow pinning to Pinterest. Please contact the owner with any questions.
Pinterest Allows Websites to Block Pinning
Pinterest Co-Founder Paul Sciarra Leaves, Ben Silbermann Officially Takes On CEO Role | TechCrunch
Well, big changes on the horizon for Pinterest! We’ve confirmed with our own independent sources this Startup Grind report that Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra is leaving the startup. And it’s complicated: While Sciarra, who took a six week hiatus from pinning and company matters a few weeks back, is listed on the company’s SEC documents as CEO, it is co-founder Ben Silbermann who through his actions unofficially took on that role. Silberman was so convincing that press had already bestowed on him the CEO title, though the truth is that both he and Sciarra co-ran the company until last Friday.More developments for Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarra, who we reported yesterday was leaving Pinterest as Ben Silbermann officially took helm as CEO. Sciarra is going VC and joining Andreessen Horowitz as entrepreneur-in-residence. The move follows the bigger trend of startup execs/founders getting snapped up by the VC firms, to help them get a bit smarter in how they work with their portfolio companies. Just yesterday, First Round Capital hired Scribd’s Jack Leidlein as head of talent. “I hope that eventually leads me back to doing what I’ve done for the past three and a half years — namely, building cool things with awesome people with unexpected results,” Sciarra wrote in a blog post on the Pinterest site.
Pinterest Co-Founder Paul Sciarra Is Now EIR At Andreessen Horowitz | TechCrunch
Pinterest Cofounder Reportedly Leaving Company — paidContent
Pinterest cofounder Paul Sciarra is leaving the company, according to startup community site Startup Grind. Startup Grind notes that while Sciarra is listed as CEO and founder on Pinterest’s SEC filings, he’s primarily worked in a behind-the-scenes role while Ben Silbermann has served as the public face of the fast-growing company. Sciarra’s departure was confirmed by “multiple sources inside the company,” Startup Grind says.
You just can’t move for social curation services right now. The biggest noise might be coming from Pinterest, which is growing like a weed — but whether it’s the new-look Delicious, Switzerland’s Paperli, shopping curation site Svpply, image service Mlkshk or another site, the fact is that almost everybody seems to want to help you save and sort and share the things you find on the web right now. With this swirl of activity, then, it’s no surprise to hear that Parisian service Pearltrees — slogan “collect, organize, discover” — has just raised another $6 million of funding, led by local conglomerate Groupe Accueil.
When is the social curation bubble going to burst? — Tech News and Analysis
Laura Paine has a simple answer when asked why Pinterest exploded in popularity at this particular juncture in Internet history. The former reporter watched her newspaper cut positions, go from being a daily to a weekly and focus more on creating short, Q&A pieces, video and photo galleries in an effort to cling to dwindling online traffic. "People aren't really reading anymore," said Paine, who now works for the public relations firm InkHouse. A new Engauge white paper breaks down the make-up of the average Pinterest user and shows that the end result of less reading is more of a focus on content curation than creation. The timing of that trend, combined with a stunning design when Internet users are focusing more on visual than text, has allowed Pinterest to explode in popularity.
The Curation-Over-Creation Trend That Fueled Pinterest's Rapid Growth
The most interesting wave hitting the social web in 2012 is social curation. This was kicked off in 2011 as Pinterest's growth was noticed by Silicon Valley and a number of companies quickly followed suit - Snip.It launched as a social information curation platform, Quora adopted boards for a similar purpose, and Fab.com launched a structured social commerce feed. In this blog post I will discuss the evolution of social media from long-form to push-button, the emergence of social curation on sites such as Twitter and Tumblr , and the move to structured sets of curated content on Pinterest and its brethren.
Elad Blog: How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012: Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing
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