maurachace.com • 05 June 2011
When you need something, ask the internet. A little over a month ago I sent out the call that I wanted a Pinterest invite. (And thanks to my awesome friends who responded.) Originally I figured it would be the perfect service to collect recipes I wanted to make. If you don’t know, Pinterest is basically a photo bookmarking site, with each bookmark referred to as a pin.
Things I like
The visual aspect is clearly what Pinterest is all about, and it does it pretty well. The site’s design is minimal, with a cool liquid layout to give you the most photos for your screen real estate. Pinterest’s community features are key; it’s not nearly as fun without an actively pinning set of friends. The ability to repin others’ pins is key, and I often find myself looking for cool stuff on Pinterest rather than the internets at large.
Things I don’t like
I don’t really get why having both a like and a repin feature are necessary. I have “liked” pins when I don’t have an appropriate board to pin them to…but still. I don’t like when you repin it will take the original description with it without attribution by default…making it look like you wrote it. This is just a personal feature request, but I hate that there are no private boards, because they’d be an awesome way to collect gift ideas.
What I didn’t expect
- I figured Pinterest would be full of food, fashion and home decorating ideas and primarily cater to women. While I’m guessing women hold some majority, men seem to like it, too.
- I made a pinboard of puppies to brighten my day.
- As the data set grows, there’s going to be some really interesting data mining-type things they can do (and hopefully via API as well).
- They use Django!
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