Saturday, April 7, 2012

Wao.. another very interesting Social Network Site!!!

I was surprised to see simplicity and ease of use of this.. more importantly, I was surprised to see that there is still scope for newer social network sites and there is still great risk to Facebook etc.. I am amazed by people's imagination..

That is the best part of current times.. you have some idea.. you can easily test waters.. if people like it.. you could be next Zuckerburg or Brin or Page!!!

Thing is, the pie is so big and there are so many diverse group of people that you can still carve out niche for yourself. Once you reach critical mass, your concept can explode and bring you in the league of Zuckerburg.. Do you care if you have just one billion or few tens or hundred's of billions.. at least I won't..

This new social network site which claims to be easy pin board is really easy to use and view and makes total sense.. amazingly beautiful pictures.. whatever you like.. you can pin on it..

I just copied some sample pins from it below for users to get yummy taste of it..

Enjoy and here goes another few minutes a day of yours into yet another newer social network site!!!

Cheers!!!

http://pinterest.com/


http://pinterest.com/pin/123075002286918127/


http://pinterest.com/pin/123075002286918122/


http://pinterest.com/pin/123075002286918113/




MARKETING RESEARCH

Pinterest leaps to third among social networks


Digital bulletin board website pulls ahead of LinkedIn, Google+


By Jeremy C. Owens


 


Pinterest has become the third most popular social network in the United States, behind only Facebook and Twitter, a marketing- research report has found.

An Experian Marketing Services report found marked increases in visitors to Pinterest’s website, including a 50 percent gain from January to February that made it more popular than LinkedIn or Google+.

The Palo Alto company has found an ever growing audience for its digital bulletin boards, which allow users to collect and share digital images and link them to websites. Since co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann launched the social network in January 2010, it has become extremely popular, especially
 with hobbyists. 

Silbermann 

Experian research showed that the site’s visitors were demographically different from those visiting other social networks, with women accounting for 60 percent of the visitors and a higher percentage of users in the Midwest, Northwest and Southeast. Alexa, a web-analytics company that uses a combination of visitors and pageviews to rank the most popular sites on the Web, disagrees with Experian, currently ranking Pinterest fourth among social networks, behind LinkedIn. The site does rank Pinterest as the 16th most popular website in the United States, ahead of such stalwarts as PayPal, ESPN.com and The Huffington Post. 

Social networking accounts for 15 percent of all U.S. Internet visits, Experian reported, but much of that metric can be attributed to Facebook. The Menlo Park social network captures one in every 10 U.S. Internet visits and one in every five page views, Experian reported. 

Other social networking sites are still growing as well, though not at as fast a pace as Pinterest,  Experian reported. From December 2010 to December 2011, Twitter grew 45 percent and LinkedIn grew 98 percent, according to the annual report. Growth will be hard to sustain, however, as Experian says that 91 percent of adults online in the United States already use social networking “regularly.” 

Contact Jeremy C. Owens at 408-920-5876; follow him at Twitter.com/mercbizbreak. 

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