Latest Update: Shoppable Pins
With the aim of improving the shopping experience for users, Pinterest is partnering with the e-commerce platform WooCommerce to roll out a new feature that allows users to turn product catalogs into shoppable Pins. The feature can let retailers convert all of their product catalogs into Shoppable Pins, regardless of what types of products they sell. The app can also automatically update product details, including pricing and availability and more.
Pinterest uses a way of waterfall stream to show pictures so users don’t need to open a new page to see the next content. Pinterest is called the picture version of Twitter, you can save the photo, like the photo and forward it to your own account.
If Google+ is the promise land for the tech nerds, then Pinterest will be the paradise for wives. Pinterest applies two elements that are pinboard and pin. There are four elements for the Pinterest:Pin, Repin,share,board
It has been a long history since Pinterest was released. Pinterest is a creative mix of two words: pin and interest. The original meaning of it is to pin the pictures that you are interested in on a board to share.
Timeline
In 2010, Pinterest was created by a team name Cold Brew Labs.
In August, 2011, pinterest was selected as one of fifty best websites on Times Magazine in America.
In November 2011, Pinterest was listed as one of ten biggest social network website by Hitwise.
In January 2012, the traffic of Pinterest has surpassed Linkedin, Youtube and Google+.
In January 2013, Pinterest get invested by the venture investment SV Angel, after this investment, the value of Pinterest estimated about 1.5 billion dollars.
In May 2015, American social website Pinterest carried out three kinds of pins, which took the first step in the cooperation with large retail brand in the United States.
You can make the fast registration on the welcome screen if you never use this application. Or you can also log in by using your Facebook and Twitter account. While you can scan all the users' photo sharing if you register a new account on Pinterest. While the goal of creating this application is mainly to view some interesting or eye-pleasing pictures in the leisure time. Come and experience it now!
