Pinterest: Behind the Design of an Addictive Visual Network
Ever find yourself in the rabbit hole of the internet, bookmarking and screengrabbing things you want to buy or images that inspire you? Well, judging from Pinterest's hockey-stick growth, you're not alone in your digital collecting and curating. The invite-only social discovery platform launched in March 2010, the brainchild of Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp and Ben Silbermann, with the mission to "connect everyone in the world through the 'things' they find interesting," opining that books, recipes and items can bridge the gap between strangers. In October, the site surpassed 421 million pageviews, which means that each of its 3 million users are spending quite a bit of time there, pinning and organizing images to help them plan their weddings, decorate their (oftentimes, dream) homes, create bucket lists and manage an inventory of favorite images — no small feat on the ever-growing web. Pinterest's simplicity and browsability comes from the nimble fingers of designer Evan Sharp.
Comcast Brings Live Streaming TV to iPad
Comcast has added live streaming TV on an iPad to its service at no additional cost, although it’s currently available only to its Xfinity HD Triple Play subscribers in Denver and Nashville. The company will add more markets in coming months, according to AppleInsider. The new functionality, known as AnyPlay, works only over a home Wi-Fi connection, and it’s only available on the iPad now, although support for the Motorola Xoom tablet is in the works. On the road or on a cellular network, Comcast customers need to use the Xfinity TV software to access On Demand movies and TV shows. There’s another potential catch: AppleInsider noted that when AnyPlay’s existence was first known last September, a leaked memo said that the service would be limited to one device at a time, with a maximum of 10 registered tablets per home. It’s not clear if those restrictions are in place now that the service has launched.
Grandes surfaces: Le prix du panier moyen fran ais a augment de 4,4% en 2011
Après une accalmie en 2010, le panier moyen des consommateurs a grimpé de 4,4% en 2011 avec la flambée de certains produits comme les jus de fruits, selon l'Observatoire annuel des prix de Familles rurales, publié mardi par La Croix. Au mois de novembre, le panier moyen élaboré par l'association de défense des consommateurs et qui comprend 35 produits de consommation courante (eaux, biscuits, jus de fruits, desserts, confiture, produits laitiers,...) a atteint un «niveau historique» de 137,6 euros, a souligné celle-ci. En 2010, les prix étaient restés quasiment stables à +0,19%. Résultats préoccupants Selon Familles rurales, les résultats 2011 sont «particulièrement préoccupants». «Les relevés de prix de l'année 2011 sont les plus hauts depuis la création de l'observatoire des prix en 2006», note l'association. Les paniers de grandes marques nationales ont connu une hausse de 2,65% en 2011, tandis que celui des marques de distributeurs a grimpé de 4,14% et celui des 1er prix de 8,12%.
You are what you curate: why Pinterest is hawt
Evolution of social media by Elad Gill (graphic courtesy of Elad Gill) Updated: The new hot social thing on the web these days is a Palo Alto, Calif.–based company started by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp. 2012 will likely see an acceleration of structured, push button, social curation across the web. The way I see it, Pinterest is yet another example of basic human behavior’s being transposed on to the web. Back when I was young, my cousins would cut out photos, ads and visuals from fashion and lifestyle magazines and create collages. In 2005, David Galbraith, a friend of mine who has a nasty habit of predicting the future before everyone else, built a service called Wists. Well, since everyone is using “curate,” why don’t we? From the foods we eat, the drinks we chug, the jeans we wear, the bags we buy, the shoes we run in — they are pretty universal. The online world is even worse: Everything looks so similar that we do need to do something to stand out.
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A Guy's Guide To Pinterest
One of the first things I noticed when I signed up for Pinterest earlier this week is that several of my female friends and acquaintances were already on the site. It was as if they had been holding out on what many are promising will be 2012's hot ticket in the social networking space. Of the 16 people Pinterest said I knew who were already using the site, 14 were women. Over the course of the first day, five more women I know added me and I suddenly felt like I had ventured behind some secret curtain. That is not surprising: in December, Mashable reported that 59 percent of the site's visitors were women between the ages of 25 and 44, and that 58 percent of its visitors in the previous 12 weeks had been female. Pinterest is a visual pin board where you can collect images you find on the Web and arrange them in categories with links back to the original site. "Our goal is to connect everyone in the world through the 'things' they find interesting. Getting Going First Impressions
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How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012: Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing
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. But first, the meta-trend.... ...Social Media: Evolving From Long Form To Push Button In the evolution of social media over the last decade, the trend has been a move from long form content, which has high friction of participation (both on the production and consumption side) to ever lower requirements placed on a user to participate in a conversation.
Bataille des brevets : les Etats-Unis donnent raison à Apple face à HTC
Le Monde.fr avec AFP et Reuters | • Mis à jour le Les Etats-Unis ont donné raison, lundi 19 décembre, au groupe d'informatique Apple, face à son rival taïwanais dans les téléphones portables, HTC, dans un contentieux portant sur des brevets technologiques. La commission du commerce international (ITC) a ordonné à HTC d'arrêter l'exportation vers les Etats-Unis, à compter du 19 avril, de certains appareils équipés du système d'exploitation Android, qui reproduisent illégalement une des technologies brevetées par Apple. Celui-ci permet à un téléphone portable de reconnaître un numéro de téléphone dans un message électronique, offrant ainsi la possibilité de le composer ou de le sauvegarder dans son répertoire. Le gouvernement a soixante jours pour éventuellement casser la décision de l'ITC, ce qu'il ne fait que très rarement. Cette décision devrait toutefois moins pénaliser HTC qu'initialement redouté, étant donné que cela lui laisse le temps de revoir la technologie incriminée.
